hyprmoncfg is a terminal-first monitor configurator and background daemon for Hyprland.
It gives users a visual way to arrange displays from a terminal session, store layouts as reusable profiles, and automatically restore the best matching setup when monitors are connected or disconnected. The project is aimed at people who want a lightweight monitor management tool for Hyprland without depending on heavyweight desktop components, while still offering a safer workflow for writing and applying monitor configuration.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Provides a spatial layout editor for positioning monitors and previewing arrangements before applying them.
- Includes a per-monitor inspector for adjusting mode, scale, VRR, transform, and exact coordinates.
- Matches saved profiles to monitor hardware identity instead of unstable connector names.
- Includes a hotplug-aware daemon that applies the best matching profile automatically.
- Offers workspace planning with sequential, interleave, and manual placement strategies.
- Uses atomic writes, reload verification, and a confirmation window to safely revert problematic changes.
- Refuses to write configuration when Hyprland is not reading the expected monitors.conf source chain.
- Ships as compiled Go binaries with no Python, GTK, or D-Bus runtime dependencies.
Website: github.com/crmne/hyprmoncfg
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Developer: Carmine Paolino
License: MIT License
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