HyDE themes and configs broken after Hyprland Lua update (v0.56)

[Leooo7262627]

Description

After updating Hyprland to version 0.56 (Lua-based configuration), my HyDE setup became heavily broken. Multiple core features stopped working, especially themes, wallpapers, and UI components.

This appears to be caused by the migration from .conf to .lua, where HyDE and its themes are still relying on the old configuration format, leading to conflicts with the new system.

Steps to Reproduce

1. stall HyDE on Arch Linux
2. Update the system to the latest Hyprland (v0.55+ with Lua config)
3. Apply any theme or wallpaper using HyDE
4. Run hyde-shell reload or restart the session
5. Observe broken behavior

Expected Behavior

• Themes should apply correctly
• Wallpapers should display normally
• HyDE features (UI, lock screen, gestures, etc.) should work properly
• Configuration changes should be applied without errors

Actual Behavior

• Themes appear blank or fail to apply
• Wallpapers do not display
• Waybar styles and fonts break
• hyde-shell reload has no effect
• Some configuration changes are ignored
• Gestures are broken (e.g., 3-finger swipe not working, fallback to 4-finger or no response)
• Lua-related errors may appear
• General instability after the update

Screenshots

No response

Environment

Installation Environment: On The Main Hardware
Display Resolution: 1920x1080
Graphics Driver: Intel (or your GPU)
Display Server: Wayland

System Information

Paste output of:

hyprctl systeminfo -c

Additional Information

• OS: Arch Linux
• Hyprland version: v0.56 (Lua-based)
• Using HyDE Project
• Issue started immediately after updating Hyprland
• Likely caused by conflicts between old .conf configs and new .lua system
• Similar issues reported by others after the Lua migration

[coderabbitai]

⚠️ Possible Duplicate Issue(s)

• Issues on Hyprland v0.55+ Lua Migration: Gestures, Hyprlock, and HyDE Gallery Themes Conflict #1941

🔗 Related PRs

#1742 - fix: Fix Hyprland 0.55 breaking changes in configuration files [merged]
#1743 - fix: Fix Hyprland 0.55 breaking changes in configuration files [merged]
#1755 - Lua [merged]
#1876 - fix: ensure theme config is a table before applying [merged]
#1890 - #1889 fix: point shipped callers at files that still exist [merged]
#1922 - fix: load HyDE from the config Hyprland actually picks [merged]

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[SumitKumar-17]

Another addition to this:
I have been a user of Hyde for the last 1.5 years. I recently pulled and ./install.sh a few days back(since 4-5 months I believe or more maybe) . After the update the lock screen wallpaper is black, showing "[font] Layout file not found". How can I fix this.

So for the dropdown terminal "Super Alt +T " not works, it shows an error notifications "Unkown command toggle_console. Try help for available commands"

Confirm: 3-finger did not also work for me, I manually changed the code of the files to make it work as I am now habituated to it. Should I make a PR of 3-finger swipe to the repo? Or you guys have already planned it.

[Leooo7262627]

@SumitKumar-17
yeah i observed that same did u get any solution?

[SumitKumar-17]

@Leooo7262627

[@SumitKumar-17](https://github.com/SumitKumar-17) yeah, I observed the same. Did you find any solution?

1. Lock screen wallpaper
Didn't find the code issues,but this fix can be used and worked for me

Root cause: `~/.config/hypr/hyprlock/` was missing, while `hyprlock.conf` was still pointing `$LAYOUT_PATH` to it.

Fix:
1. Restore `~/.config/hypr/hyprlock/` from the HyDE checkout:
   `cp -r Configs/.config/hypr/hyprlock ~/.config/hypr/hyprlock`
2. Run:
   `hyde-shell hyprlock --reload`

2. 3-finger scroll

I have some fixes to the code for 3-finger scrolling. I can share them. These are the files that need to be changed:

[Leooo7262627]

@SumitKumar-17
thank u for the Lock screen wallpaper solution
what are the edits u made for 3-fingers scrolling

[SumitKumar-17]

@Leooo7262627

@SumitKumar-17 thank u for the Lock screen wallpaper solution what are the edits u made for 3-fingers scrolling

Attaching all the screenshots of the git diff, just include changing a value 4 to 3 at various places nothing much more. Have you also found any other issues solution share also man.
I think I recently encountered a new bug only happened 1 time till now , If I open more than 10 workspaces , The waybar is going out of my window screen , dont know why.

[ALi3naTEd0]

I had the same "themes don't apply" symptom after the Lua migration and I think I found the actual cause, at least for the theme/wallpaper part of this — it's not the theme files themselves, it's a monitor-scale parsing bug. Details in #1961.

Short version: HyDE reads the monitor scale with jq '.scale' | sed "s/\.//", expecting Hyprland to print 1.00 so it becomes 100. Hyprland now reports scale: 1 (an integer), the sed does nothing, and mon_scale ends up as 1 instead of 100. Everything computed from it is then 100x too big, and the rofi selector ends up being built with listview{columns:266;}.

The menu still opens and still shows your themes, which is why it feels like "the theme is broken" — but the layout is unusable so your selection never registers.

Fix that worked for me (in theme.select.sh, wallpaper/select.sh, rofiselect.sh, logoutlaunch.sh):

mon_scale=$(jq '.[] | select(.focused==true) | .scale * 100 | round' <<< "$mon_data")

After that, Super+Shift+T and Super+Shift+W work again for me. Might not cover every symptom reported in this thread (waybar styles/fonts, gestures), but it definitely covers the theme and wallpaper selectors.

[antoinegomez]

also looks like all config moved from ~/.config/hypr to ~/.local/share/hyde

[Delcado19]

Opened #2051 for the gesture symptom listed here (3-finger swipe falling back to 4-finger) — root cause was a finger-count mismatch between layouts (dwindle/master/scrolling/scrolling-down used 4, monocle already used 3 correctly). Doesn't cover the other symptoms in this report (themes/wallpapers, waybar styling, hyde-shell reload, general instability) — those need separate investigation.

[Delcado19]

Two of the symptoms listed here have concrete fixes since this was filed: the gesture fallback (3-finger swipe) was fixed in #2051 (finger-count mismatch between layouts), and themes/wallpapers silently not applying after a switch was fixed in #2024 (the theme-switch process was getting killed mid-run by waybar's own reload signal).

Could you retest on current dev? The other items here (waybar styles/fonts, hyde-shell reload having no effect) are too general to verify without specifics -- if any still reproduce, a fresh issue with exact repro steps for that one symptom would help track it properly.

[SumitKumar-17]

Two of the symptoms listed here have concrete fixes since this was filed: the gesture fallback (3-finger swipe) was fixed in #2051 (finger-count mismatch between layouts), and themes/wallpapers silently not applying after a switch was fixed in #2024 (the theme-switch process was getting killed mid-run by waybar's own reload signal).

Could you retest on current dev? The other items here (waybar styles/fonts, hyde-shell reload having no effect) are too general to verify without specifics -- if any still reproduce, a fresh issue with exact repro steps for that one symptom would help track it properly.

Yeah I could test it out in some time,but currently i have modified those files myself so I don't wanna do it till system update is urgetly needed