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Phantomat

Phantomat is a Hyprland plugin that replaces workspaces with a zoomable, infinite 2D canvas for windows. Windows can be placed freely, while linked monitors show adjacent parts of the same canvas and move together. It supports Wayland and X11 applications, including games running under Wine and Proton.

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Overview

The plugin provides a zoomed-out navigation view with title- and app-name search, camera movement to matching windows, recent-window switching, panning, zooming, window movement and resizing, minimap navigation, grid arrangement, undo and redo, fullscreen and screen-fill modes, and optional pinned windows. It remembers window positions and camera state across restarts and includes a live tuner for lens distortion, blur, grid, parallax, HUD, colors, and related settings.

Phantomat is distributed as source code under the BSD 3-Clause license. It requires Hyprland 0.56 or newer, Lua configuration support, GCC 15 or newer, and Hyprland development files; the plugin must be rebuilt after a Hyprland update. It was formerly called Spatial Overview, so its configuration files and commands retain that name. The project began as a fork of hyprland-scroll-overview and is described as less tested outside its Omarchy, Hyprland, NVIDIA, and two-monitor development setup.

What Phantomat is used for

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  • A Hyprland plugin that replaces workspaces with one infinite canvas of windows. It supports zooming, coordinated multi-monitor views, title-based navigation, and persistence across restarts.

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