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Hyprland 0.51 Compositor Released With Reworked Gesture System, New Animations

Written by Michael Larabel in Wayland on 10 September 2025 at 09:38 AM EDT. 15 Comments
Hyprland 0.51 is now available as the latest feature release for this unique Wayland compositor.

Hyprland 0.51 bring a reworked gesture system is that is much more flexible than the prior implementation. There is also reworked trackpad gestures with Hypyrland 0.51 that includes now being able to set new 1:1 gestures for fingers / modifiers / directions.

Hyprland 0.51 also brings new configuration options, the scroll factor can be set for per-device configurations, new DPMS animations, fade in/out animations for Wayland-native pop-ups, and forcing 8-bit color screensharing by default to fix Chromium and Firefox screensharing issues.

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Plus bug fixes and more round out the Hyprland 0.51 release. Downloads and more details on the Hyprland 0.51 release via Hypr.land.

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