Hyprland Accent Characters

For my Spanish 2 class, we are required to be able to type accent characters. It took some time to figure out how to do this in Hyprland, so I thought I’d share my solution here.

Solution

In general, there are two ways to type accent characters:

1. AltGr: holding down the AltGr key and typing the character you want to accent. For example, holding down the AltGr key and typing a will give you á.
2. Dead keys: typing apostrophe (') then the character you want to accent. For example, typing 'a will give you á.

Personally, I find the AltGr method to be more intuitive and less intrusive. I will still share both methods.

AltGr

In your Hyprland config, add the following:

input {
    kb_layout = us
    kb_options = lv3:ralt_switch
    kb_variant = altgr-intl
}Copy

Explanation:

• kb_layout = us: sets the keyboard layout to US.
• kb_options = lv3:ralt_switch: sets the right Alt key as the AltGr key.
• kb_variant = altgr-intl: allows you to use the AltGr key to type accent characters.

Dead keys

In your Hyprland config, add the following:

input {
    kb_layout = us
    kb_variant = intl
}Copy

Here, intl adds dead keys, allowing you to type accent characters by typing ' then the character you want to accent.