• hybrid-d77
• About
• Acknowledgments
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  •   Wiki
  •   What hybrid-d77 is
  •   Installing
  •   Updating and installing software
  •   Where things are configured
  •   Sway
  •   niri

What hybrid-d77 is

hybrid-d77 is Chimera Linux with a Wayland session already set up: packages chosen, configuration files written, a wallpaper, an installer and a few helper tools. Underneath it is a regular Chimera system: apk, dinit, a BSD userland (chimerautils) on a Linux kernel, and Chimera’s main and user repositories.

Variants

Two ISOs are built from the same tree. The base is the same; only the session differs:

	Sway	niri
Compositor	Sway (tiling)	niri (scrollable tiling)
Bar	Waybar	Utumno (Quickshell)
Launchers	wmenu, fuzzel	Utumno
Lock screen	swaylock	Utumno
Power menu	fuzzel-power-menu	Utumno
Notifications	SwayNotificationCenter	SwayNotificationCenter
ISO	hybrid-d77-live-x86_64-DATE-sway.iso	hybrid-d77-live-x86_64-DATE-niri.iso

See the Sway and niri pages. The niri variant is the newer one: its ISO builds and its configuration is validated, but it has not been booted on real hardware yet.

hybrid-d77 is built for x86_64 only.

What both variants have

• The hybrid-d77 identity: /etc/os-release says hybrid-d77 Linux, with ID_LIKE=chimera.
• No login screen. A plain text login: prompt; logging in on the first console (tty1) starts the session by itself.
• h77-welcome, a small text-mode helper opened at each login: About (credentials and keys), Install to disk, Update. See Installing.
• Two installers: h77-installer (text, the tested one) and Mocinha (graphical, experimental).
• h77-update, which updates hybrid-d77’s own packages. See Updating and installing software.
• A ready configuration in your home, copied from the image when your user is created. See Where things are configured.
• The same applications: foot (terminal), Firefox, Thunderbird, Thunar (files), Mousepad (text), mpv, zathura (PDF), cmus, Neovim, htop, fastfetch, gnome-calculator, pavucontrol.
• dinit services, as on any Chimera system.

How it differs from installing Chimera yourself

	Plain Chimera	hybrid-d77
Base system	the same	the same
Desktop	you install and configure it	installed and configured
Installer	chimera-installer	h77-installer, a patched chimera-installer with partitioning, file systems, network, keymap, groups and services steps; or Mocinha
Extra packages	none	hybrid-d77’s own, from its GitHub release

Everything else, such as apk, dinitctl, doas and the Chimera documentation, works as on plain Chimera.