A tiny utility for hyprland that makes windows titled "DVD" float and bounce around like the classic DVD logo — now with a screensaver mode that temporarily animates all windows on the current workspace and restores them when the cursor moves.

• Animates windows titled "DVD" by making them floating and moving them with collision detection.
• Screensaver mode: captures the current workspace windows, makes them float and animate, and restores their original state when the cursor moves.
• Restore behavior attempts to faithfully restore original size/position and then tiles windows.

yay -S hyprdvd

Add the input to your flake.nix:

{
  inputs = {
    nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-unstable";
    home-manager = {
      url = "github:nix-community/home-manager";
      inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
    };
    hyprdvd = {
      url = "github:nevimmu/hyprdvd";
      inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
    };
  };

  outputs = { nixpkgs, home-manager, hyprdvd, ... }: {
    homeConfigurations.youruser = home-manager.lib.homeManagerConfiguration {
      pkgs = nixpkgs.legacyPackages.x86_64-linux;
      modules = [
        hyprdvd.homeManagerModules.default
        ./home.nix
      ];
    };
  };
}

Then in your home.nix:

{ config, pkgs, ... }:

{
  services.hyprdvd = {
    enable = true;
    autoStart = true;  # Automatically start with Hyprland
  };
}

All configuration is done via command-line arguments. See the Usage section below for available options.

git clone https://github.com/nevimmu/hyprdvd
cd hyprdvd

# Install into your environment (pipx recommended)
pipx install .

Basic usage runs the event-driven mode that listens to Hyprland events and animates any newly opened window whose title is exactly DVD:

hyprdvd
kitty --title DVD

Screensaver mode — animate all windows on the current workspace until the cursor moves. You can add it to your idle daemon (ex: hypridle)

hyprdvd --screensaver
# or
hyprdvd -s

You can customize the size of bouncing windows using the --size flag with the width and height you want

# Make windows 200x150 pixels
hyprdvd --size 200x150

hyprdvd can animate all visible workspaces (i.e., one per monitor) without switching focus or warping the cursor. It restores windows cleanly when asked to stop.

• --workspaces <id,id,...>
  Animate only the specified workspace IDs. If omitted, all visible workspaces are used (one per monitor).

• --exit-on {pointer,signal}
  Choose how the screensaver exits:

  • pointer (default): stop when the cursor moves.
  • signal: ignore pointer motion; exit only on SIGINT (e.g., via your idle daemon).

Run on all visible workspaces, ignore pointer until signaled:

hyprdvd --screensaver --size 200x150 --exit-on signal
# later:
pkill -INT hyprdvd