Headless Hyprland in Github Actions

[bob65536]

Hyprland version

N/A. Always the latest.

Describe your issue / feature…

I want to create a GUI that I can use to change Hyprland settings. To do this, I need a list of all the config variable names. I created a Hyprland plugin that takes all the variable names and saves them to a text file, but I don’t want to run the plugin every time Hyprland updates. I would much rather create a Github Actions workflow and leave it to run once a week. I’m having trouble setting up this workflow since Hyprland can’t easily be run headless. How would I accomplish this? (at least I found a use case for the --i-am-really-stupid flag XD)

[vaxry]

@bob65536

I created a Hyprland plugin that takes all the variable names and saves them to a text file

Don’t, we provide hyprctl descriptions which has a json of exactly that.

@bob65536

I would much rather create a Github Actions workflow and leave it to run once a week. I’m having trouble setting up this workflow since Hyprland can’t easily be run headless

Because it’s not meant to. If you really need to, check hyprland’s Nix test CI job which runs hyprland.