Hyprland keybinds stop working after nixos-rebuild

creativefree · August 29, 2025, 7:44pm

I am having an issue with Hyprland were the keybinds stop working after running nixos-rebuild until I logout/login again or reboot which is really annoying.

Just wondering if anyone else has run into this issue or not? I’ve been trying for hours to find a fix but haven’t found anything. I can see an error in the hyprctl logs after rebuilding so I was wondering if it might be related to the config not reloading properly when the symlink changes after rebuilding? [ERR] CConfigWatcher: got an event for wd 2 which we don’t have?! I am using home manager to configure the settings.

My hyprland nix setup is here for reference. Appreciate if anyone has any ideas! Thanks a lot.

github.com/alex-bartleynees/nix-config

core/desktops/hypr.nix

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{ config, lib, pkgs, inputs, ... }: {
  programs.hyprland = {
    enable = true;
    withUWSM = true;
    xwayland.enable = true;
    package = pkgs.hyprland.override {
      withSystemd = false;
    };
  };

  environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
    adwaita-qt
    gtk-engine-murrine
    gtk_engines
    gsettings-desktop-schemas
    adwaita-icon-theme
  ];

  xdg.portal = {
    enable = true;

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github.com/alex-bartleynees/nix-config

home/modules/hyprland/default.nix

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{ pkgs, config, lib, inputs, background, hostName, theme, ... }:
let
  # Theme color definitions
  themeColors = {
    catppuccin-mocha = {
      active_border = "rgb(cba6f7)"; # mauve
      inactive_border = "rgb(6c7086)"; # overlay0
      locked_active = "rgb(f9e2af)"; # yellow
      locked_inactive = "rgb(585b70)"; # surface2
      text = "rgb(cdd6f4)"; # text
      groupbar_active = "rgb(cba6f7)"; # mauve
      groupbar_inactive = "rgb(313244)"; # surface0
      groupbar_locked_active = "rgb(f9e2af)"; # yellow
      groupbar_locked_inactive = "rgb(585b70)"; # surface2
    };
    tokyo-night = {
      active_border = "rgb(7aa2f7)"; # blue
      inactive_border = "rgb(565f89)"; # comment
      locked_active = "rgb(e0af68)"; # yellow
      locked_inactive = "rgb(3b4261)"; # bg_highlight

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creativefree · August 29, 2025, 9:26pm

Adding this to my config seems to have helped. exec = [ “systemctl --user restart hyprland-session.target” ]; And my resize submap seemed to have issues so I removed that for now. Will see how it goes.