Is it possible to gradually switch to lua or does everything I use have to use lua as well.
I ask because I currently boot with the hyprland.conf. I was experimenting with hyprctl to try out some of the lua but hyprctl was not recognizing any of the lua that I sent through with dispatch.
So is lua turned off if I boot with the .conf file.
Yes, but if hyprland.lua is found in your config dir it will be preferred.
Check hyprctl status to be sure which configProvidor is being used for the active session.
Do I have to switch to lua all at once?
No. But yes within a session.
You could whittle away at perfecting your hyprland.lua over time, testing your changes along the way.
Then, simply move that out of ~/.config/hypr when you want to switch back to using a known-good hyprlang config for a while.
You have a few months to work on it.
Also, you’re using the term “boot”, but just logging out/in to a new user session is all that’s required.