Some vars in defaults ignored

[Zer0Key]

Some vars in defaults.lua are being ignored and I'm wondering if this is me not being familiar with lua and the new HyDE setup, or if something isn't working. In the decoration block rounding gets ignored while rounding_power works. In the general block gaps_in, gaps_out and border_size get ignored. I can add this_is_a_meme = asdf, to the decoration block and I'm not getting a lua error. That is about as invalid as it gets, which makes me wonder if this is me misunderstanding something, or should this work but isn't?

Just for clarity, decoration block:

decoration = {
		dim_special = 0.3,
		active_opacity = 1,
		inactive_opacity = 0.85,
		fullscreen_opacity = 1,
		rounding = 5,
		rounding_power = 1.5,
		blur = {
			special = true,
		},

general block:

general = {
		gaps_in = 1,
		gaps_out = 0,
		border_size = 2,
		snap = {
			border_overlap = true,
			enabled = true,
			monitor_gap = 1,
			respect_gaps = true,
			window_gap = 1,
		},

[Junaid-PK]

defaults.lua is being read, but it is only HyDE's baseline layer. Later layers can replace those values.

The current load order is visible in hyde.lua:

1. defaults
2. dynamic (which applies the active theme's lua_state.hypr_theme here)
3. your ~/.config/hypr/hyprland.lua
4. the selected workflow, which intentionally "overrides everything"

That explains the particular split you see: rounding, gaps_in, gaps_out, and border_size are common theme/workflow values, while rounding_power is usually left alone. For example, the Snappy workflow explicitly sets all four of those values here.

Put personal overrides in ~/.config/hypr/hyprland.lua, not ~/.local/share/hypr/lua/defaults.lua:

hl.config({
    decoration = {
        rounding = 5,
        rounding_power = 1.5,
    },
    general = {
        gaps_in = 1,
        gaps_out = 0,
        border_size = 2,
    },
})

That is also the location documented in the Lua migration guide, and HyDE's shipped user file notes that it is not overwritten during updates. Then reload and inspect the effective values:

hyprctl reload
hyprctl getoption decoration:rounding
hyprctl getoption decoration:rounding_power
hyprctl getoption general:gaps_in
hyprctl getoption general:gaps_out
hyprctl getoption general:border_size

If the first, third, fourth, and fifth values still change, run hyde-shell workflows --select and choose Default. Gaming, Powersaver, and Snappy deliberately apply a final override after the user file.

One Lua detail explains the lack of an error from this test:

this_is_a_meme = asdf

An undeclared Lua global such as asdf evaluates to nil; assigning nil means that key is absent from the table. So this does not actually pass an invalid value to hl.config. Using a quoted value would make it present, although an unknown Hyprland option still should not be used as a validation test.

[Zer0Key]

Man, thanks. I got so turned around with this update and started confusing files.