Popup jrnl window in Hyprland

I’m slowly learning how to customize Hyprland.

I’ve been playing with jrnl as a way to do a daily log. It’s been successful enough that I wanted to streamline it a bit. What I wanted was to bind a key to opening my jrnl prompt in a floating terminal in whichever workspace I happen to be in.

Here’s how I did it:

# Keybinding for floating centered terminal
bind = SUPER SHIFT, J, exec, alacritty --class floating-term -e jrnl --config-override editor ""
windowrulev2 = float, class:(floating-term)
windowrulev2 = center, class:(floating-term)
windowrulev2 = size 800 60%, class:(floating-term)

This gets me a conveniently sized and placed terminal window with jrnl waiting for me to type whatever I want. A simple CTRL-d and it creates the jrnl entry and the window goes away.

The jrnl --config-override editor "" bit forces jrnl to wait for stdin so I can just start typing.

It may be overkill, since I could just type jrnl in any terminal, but this is just a smidge more convenient.