diff --git a/home/bolt.nix b/home/bolt.nix
index b3786fb..a457071 100755
--- a/home/bolt.nix
+++ b/home/bolt.nix
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@
 
     Unit = {
       Description = "the system76 process scheduler kwin dbus proxy";
-      # Aliases = [ "com.system76.Scheduler.dbusproxy.service" ];
       Requires = [ "dbus.service" ];
     };
 
diff --git a/home/home.nix b/home/home.nix
index 56a7ce6..9eb918a 100755
--- a/home/home.nix
+++ b/home/home.nix
@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
-{ config, pkgs, ... }:
+{ pkgs, config, ... }:
 
 let
-  flake-compat = builtins.fetchTarball "https://github.com/edolstra/flake-compat/archive/master.tar.gz";
-  hyprland = (import flake-compat {
-    src = builtins.fetchTarball "https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/archive/master.tar.gz";
-  }).defaultNix;
+  # nix-rice = builtins.fetchGit {
+  #   url = "https://github.com/bertof/nix-rice.git";
+  #   rev = "ac810023c1bb3d999ab4295ea4eb261412f4b7c0";
+  # };
+  # nix-rice-overlay = import (nix-rice + "/overlay.nix");
+  # pkgs = import <nixpkgs> { overlays = [ nix-rice-overlay ]; };
   kitty_notest = pkgs.kitty.overridePythonAttrs (oldAttrs: { doCheck = false; checkPhase = ""; });
 in
 {
@@ -13,7 +15,6 @@ in
     ./bolt.nix
     # ./fossil.nix
     # ./plank.nix
-    hyprland.homeManagerModules.default
   ];
 
   nixpkgs.config.packageOverrides = pkgs: {
@@ -21,110 +22,6 @@ in
       inherit pkgs;
     };
   };
-
-  wayland.windowManager.hyprland = {
-    enable = true;
-    systemdIntegration = true;
-    nvidiaPatches = true;
-    extraConfig = ''
-      exec-once = waybar
-      exec-once = keepassxc
-      exec-once = mako
-      exec-once = ckb-next -c -b
-      exec-once = swaybg -i $HOME/Downloads/00026.png
-      exec-once = xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
-
-      input {
-        kb_layout=us
-        kb_options=caps:escape,escape:caps
-      }
-
-      general {
-        no_border_on_floating=true
-        layout=dwindle
-        border_size=3
-        gaps_in=10
-        gaps_out=20
-      }
-
-      dwindle {
-        preserve_split=true
-        pseudotile=true
-        use_active_for_splits=true
-      }
-
-      decoration {
-        rounding=8
-        blur=0
-      }
-
-      animations {
-        enabled=1
-        bezier=overshot,0.05,0.9,0.1,1.1
-        bezier=smooth,0.06,0.94,0.1,1.0
-        bezier=slosmooth,0.1,0.89,0.14,0.96
-        animation=windows,1,6,overshot,popin
-        animation=workspaces,1,6,smooth,slidevert
-        animation=specialWorkspace,1,6,overshot,slide
-      }
-
-      misc {
-        disable_hyprland_logo=true
-        disable_splash_rendering=true
-      }
-
-      monitor=,highrr,auto,1
-
-      bind=SUPER,Return,exec,kitty
-      bind=SUPER,F,exec,firefox
-      bind=SUPER,D,exec,fuzzel
-
-      bind=SUPER_SHIFT,Q,killactive
-      bind=SUPER_SHIFT,space,fullscreen,0
-      bind=SUPER,space,togglefloating
-
-      bind=SUPER,h,movefocus,l
-      bind=SUPER,l,movefocus,r
-      bind=SUPER,j,movefocus,d
-      bind=SUPER,k,movefocus,u
-      bind=SUPER_SHIFT,h,movewindow,l
-      bind=SUPER_SHIFT,l,movewindow,r
-      bind=SUPER_SHIFT,j,movewindow,d
-      bind=SUPER_SHIFT,k,movewindow,u
-
-      bind=SUPER,s,togglesplit
-
-      bind=SUPER,1,workspace,1
-      bind=SUPER,2,workspace,2
-      bind=SUPER,3,workspace,3
-      bind=SUPER,4,workspace,4
-      bind=SUPER_SHIFT,1,movetoworkspacesilent,1
-      bind=SUPER_SHIFT,2,movetoworkspacesilent,2
-      bind=SUPER_SHIFT,3,movetoworkspacesilent,3
-      bind=SUPER_SHIFT,4,movetoworkspacesilent,4
-
-      bind=SUPER_CTRL,h,resizeactive,-40 0
-      bind=SUPER_CTRL,l,resizeactive,40 0
-      bind=SUPER_CTRL,j,resizeactive,0 -40
-      bind=SUPER_CTRL,k,resizeactive,0 40
-
-      bind=SUPER,minus,togglespecialworkspace
-      bind=SUPER_SHIFT,minus,movetoworkspace,special
-
-      bind=SUPER_SHIFT,S,exec,grim -g "$(slurp)" -t png -o "$HOME/Pictures/$(date +%F_%H-%m-%S).png" && notify-send "Screenshot taken."
-      bind=SUPER_SHIFT_CTRL,S,exec,wf-recorder -a -f "$HOME/Videos/recording_($date +%F_%H-%m-%S).mp4" && notify-send "Recording desktop.."
-      bind=SUPER_SHIFT,E,exec,wlogout
-
-      bind=,XF86AudioMute,exec,pactl set-sink-mute @DEFAULT_SINK@ toggle && notify-send "Audio" "Mute $(if [ $(pactl get-sink-mute @DEFAULT_SINK@ | rg yes | wc -l) -eq 1 ]; then printf on; else printf off; fi)."
-      bind=,XF86AudioRaiseVolume,exec,pactl set-sink-volume @DEFAULT_SINK@ +5% && notify-send "Audio" "Volume at $(pactl get-sink-volume @DEFAULT_SINK@ | cut -d' ' -f 6)"
-      bind=,XF86AudioLowerVolume,exec,pactl set-sink-volume @DEFAULT_SINK@ -5% && notify-send "Audio" "Volume at $(pactl get-sink-volume @DEFAULT_SINK@ | cut -d' ' -f 6)"
-      bind=,XF86AudioStop,exec,cmus-remote -s && notify-send "Music" "Playback stopped."
-      bind=,XF86AudioPlay,exec,cmus-remote -u && notify-send "Music" "Playback status: $(cmus-remote -Q | head -n 1 | cut -d' ' -f 2)"
-      bind=,XF86AudioPrev,exec,cmus-remote -r && notify-send "Music" "Now playing:\n$(cmus-remote -Q | rg -e 'artist|title' | cut -d' ' -f 3-)"
-      bind=,XF86AudioNext,exec,cmus-remote -n && notify-send "Music" "Now playing:\n$(cmus-remote -Q | rg -e 'artist|title' | cut -d' ' -f 3-)"
-    '';
-  };
-
   nixpkgs.config.allowUnfree = true;
 
   home.packages = with pkgs; [
@@ -134,18 +31,6 @@ in
     clementine
     inkscape
 
-    grim
-    slurp
-    mako
-    swaybg
-    wlogout
-    wf-recorder
-    libnotify
-    fuzzel
-    waybar
-    
-    pulseaudio # yuck! just for pactl..
-
     btop
     bat
     joshuto
@@ -154,7 +39,6 @@ in
     lazygit
     fzf
 
-
     # kdeconnect # maybe once i get an android
     keepassxc
 
@@ -166,33 +50,26 @@ in
     zoxide
     meslo-lgs-nf
 
-    libreoffice-qt
+    # libreoffice-qt
 
     libsForQt5.ark
     libsForQt5.qtstyleplugin-kvantum
     libsForQt5.bismuth
 
+    hackneyed
+
     gtk-engine-murrine
 
-    # plasma-browser-integration
+    plasma-browser-integration
     
     (callPackage ./homepkgs/git-credential-keepassxc.nix { })
     (callPackage ./homepkgs/culr.nix { })
-    (callPackage ./homepkgs/glpaper.nix { })
+    # (callPackage ./homepkgs/glpaper.nix { })
 
   ];
 
   xdg.enable = true;
-
-  programs.mako = {
-    enable = true;
-    anchor = "bottom-right";
-    borderRadius = 8;
-    borderSize = 2;
-    defaultTimeout = 3500;
-    ignoreTimeout = true;
-    font = "Visby Regular 14";
-  };
+  xdg.systemDirs.data = [ "${pkgs.hackneyed}/share" ];
 
   programs.vscode = {
     enable = true;
@@ -203,34 +80,34 @@ in
     mutableExtensionsDir = false;
   };
 
-  # xdg.desktopEntries = {
-  #   vscodium-url = {
-  #     name = "VsCodium";
-  #     genericName = "Text Editor";
-  #     exec = "codium --disable-gpu-sandbox --open-url %U";
-  #     icon = "code";
-  #     comment = "Code Editing. Redefined.";
-  #     categories = [ "Utility" "TextEditor" "Development" "IDE" ];
-  #     # keywords = [ "vscode" ];
-  #     mimeType = [ "x-scheme-handler/vscode" ];
-  #     noDisplay = true;
-  #     startupNotify = true;
-  #     type = "Application";
-  #   };
-  #   vscodium = {
-  #     categories = [ "Utility" "TextEditor" "Development" "IDE" ];
-  #     comment = "Code Editing. Redefined.";
-  #     exec = "codium --disable-gpu-sandbox %F";
-  #     genericName = "Text Editor";
-  #     icon = "code";
-  #     # keywords = [ "vscode" ];
-  #     mimeType = [ "text/plain" "inode/directory" ];
-  #     name = "VsCodium";
-  #     startupNotify = true;
-  #     # startupWMClass = "vscodium";
-  #     type = "Application";      
-  #   };
-  # };
+  xdg.desktopEntries = {
+    codium-url = {
+      name = "VsCodium";
+      genericName = "Text Editor";
+      exec = "codium --disable-gpu-sandbox --open-url %U";
+      icon = "code";
+      comment = "Code Editing. Redefined.";
+      categories = [ "Utility" "TextEditor" "Development" "IDE" ];
+      # keywords = [ "vscode" ];
+      mimeType = [ "x-scheme-handler/vscode" ];
+      noDisplay = true;
+      startupNotify = true;
+      type = "Application";
+    };
+    codium = {
+      categories = [ "Utility" "TextEditor" "Development" "IDE" ];
+      comment = "Code Editing. Redefined.";
+      exec = "codium --disable-gpu-sandbox %F";
+      genericName = "Text Editor";
+      icon = "code";
+      # keywords = [ "vscode" ];
+      mimeType = [ "text/plain" "inode/directory" ];
+      name = "VsCodium";
+      startupNotify = true;
+      # startupWMClass = "vscodium";
+      type = "Application";      
+    };
+  };
 
   programs.direnv = {
     enable = true;
@@ -241,10 +118,10 @@ in
   
   gtk = {
     enable = true;
-    # theme = {
-    #   package = (pkgs.callPackage ./homepkgs/simplewaita-gtk.nix {});
-    #   name = "simplewaita";
-    # };
+    theme = {
+      package = (pkgs.callPackage ./homepkgs/simplewaita-gtk.nix {});
+      name = "simplewaita";
+    };
   };
 
   programs.firefox =
@@ -511,9 +388,9 @@ fresh
     theme = "bogster";
   };
   
-  # home.sessionVariables = {
-  #   GTK_THEME = "simplewaita";
-  # };
+  home.sessionVariables = {
+    GTK_THEME = "simplewaita";
+  };
 
   home.stateVersion = "22.11";
 
diff --git a/home/homepkgs/glpaper.nix b/home/homepkgs/glpaper.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2527eee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/home/homepkgs/glpaper.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+{ lib, stdenv, fetchFromSourcehut, meson, ninja, pkg-config, wlroots, wayland, wayland-protocols
+, libX11, libGL }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  pname = "glpaper";
+  version = "unstable-latest";
+
+  src = fetchFromSourcehut {
+    owner = "~scoopta";
+    repo = pname;
+    vc = "hg";
+    rev = "9ba3806561312d83ed66dc8583c36d70fda8cd7a";
+    sha256 = "sha256-//IKW2BfpqwcR2WAPShs0kzn5nkV/yyABPvOYm3zMPU=";
+  };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ meson ninja pkg-config ];
+  buildInputs = [
+    wayland
+    libX11 # required by libglvnd
+    libGL
+  ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description =
+      "Wallpaper program for wlroots based Wayland compositors such as sway that allows you to render glsl shaders as your wallpaper";
+    homepage = "https://hg.sr.ht/~scoopta/glpaper";
+    license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
+    platforms = platforms.linux;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ ccellado ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/system/configuration.nix b/system/configuration.nix
index 510a50d..95a2e55 100755
--- a/system/configuration.nix
+++ b/system/configuration.nix
@@ -1,13 +1,7 @@
 
 { config, pkgs, ... }:
-let
-  flake-compat = builtins.fetchTarball "https://github.com/edolstra/flake-compat/archive/master.tar.gz";
-  hyprland = (import flake-compat {
-    src = builtins.fetchTarball "https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/archive/master.tar.gz";
-  }).defaultNix;
-in
-{
 
+{
 
   imports = [
     # where are we ?
@@ -23,7 +17,6 @@ in
     # declarative cachix
     (import (builtins.fetchTarball "https://github.com/jonascarpay/declarative-cachix/archive/master.tar.gz"))
 
-    hyprland.nixosModules.default
   ];
   
   cachix = [
@@ -38,6 +31,12 @@ in
 
   environment.sessionVariables = rec {
     WLR_NO_HARDWARE_CURSORS = "1";
+    GBM_BACKEND = "nvidia-drm";
+    NVD_BACKEND = "direct";
+    __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME = "nvidia";
+    LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME = "nvidia";
+    __GL_GSYNC_ALLOWED = "1";
+    __GL_VRR_ALLOWED = "1";
   };
 
   environment.pathsToLink = [ "/share/zsh" ];
@@ -75,35 +74,23 @@ in
   services.xserver.libinput.enable = true;
   # kde time
   services.xserver.desktopManager.plasma5.enable = true;
-  services.xserver.displayManager.lightdm.enable = false;
-  services.xserver.displayManager.sddm.enable = false;
-  services.xserver.displayManager.gdm.enable = false;
-  # services.xserver.displayManager.sddm = {
-  #   enable = true;
-  #   theme = "${(pkgs.fetchFromGitHub {
-  #     owner = "EricKotato";
-  #     repo = "sddm-slice";
-  #     rev = "763b8f4e01c00c1f8590fc7a103e14f6e8449443";
-  #     sha256 = "sha256-UW53ZdKb3RSrrcZ9GxZsJyjzS/uKR8lkaLLyi+2o27U=";
-  #   })}";
-  #   autoNumlock = true;
-  #   settings = {
-  #     General = {
-  #       InputMethod = "";
-  #     };
-  #   };
-  # };
-  # services.xserver.desktopManager.plasma5.runUsingSystemd = true;
-  services.greetd = {
+  services.xserver.displayManager.lightdm.enable = false; # gets installed by default..
+  services.xserver.displayManager.sddm = {
     enable = true;
+    theme = "${(pkgs.fetchFromGitHub {
+      owner = "EricKotato";
+      repo = "sddm-slice";
+      rev = "763b8f4e01c00c1f8590fc7a103e14f6e8449443";
+      sha256 = "sha256-UW53ZdKb3RSrrcZ9GxZsJyjzS/uKR8lkaLLyi+2o27U=";
+    })}";
+    autoNumlock = true;
     settings = {
-      default_session = {
-        # command = "${pkgs.greetd.tuigreet}/bin/tuigreet --time --cmd 'dbus-run-session startplasma-wayland'";
-        command = "${pkgs.greetd.tuigreet}/bin/tuigreet --time --cmd Hyprland";
-        user = "greeter";
+      General = {
+        InputMethod = "";
       };
     };
   };
+  services.xserver.desktopManager.plasma5.runUsingSystemd = true;
   programs.dconf.enable = true;
 
   xdg.autostart.enable = true;
@@ -133,11 +120,6 @@ in
   users.defaultUserShell = pkgs.zsh;
   
   services.tailscale.enable = true;
-  programs.hyprland = {
-    enable = true;
-    package = hyprland.packages.${pkgs.system}.default;
-    nvidiaPatches = true;
-  };
 
   environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
   
@@ -186,7 +168,7 @@ in
     checkReversePath = "loose";
   };
 
-  systemd.services.fixNetworkingForTailscaleGodDamnit = {
+  systemd.services.fixNetworkingForTailscale = {
     wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ];
     after = [ "network.target" "wg-quick-mullvad.service" ];
     description = "fix the damn routing table";
diff --git a/system/quiver.nix b/system/quiver.nix
index 0b3ddea..bde7859 100755
--- a/system/quiver.nix
+++ b/system/quiver.nix
@@ -1,15 +1,11 @@
 { config, lib, pkgs, modulesPath, ... }:
 
-# let
-#   unstable-small = import <nixos-unstable-small> { config = { allowUnfree = true; }; };
-# in
 {  
 
   nixpkgs.overlays = [
     (self: super: {
       system76-scheduler = pkgs.callPackage ./syspkgs/system76-scheduler.nix {};
       kwin-system76-scheduler-integration = pkgs.libsForQt5.callPackage ./syspkgs/kwin-system76-scheduler-integration.nix {};
-      # systemd = unstable-small.systemd;
     })
   ];
 
@@ -18,13 +14,13 @@
     ];
 
   boot.initrd.availableKernelModules = [ "xhci_pci" "ahci" "usbcore" "sd_mod" ];
-  boot.initrd.kernelModules = [];
+  boot.initrd.kernelModules = [ "nvidia" "nvidia_modeset" "nvidia_uvm" "nvidia_drm" ];
   boot.kernelModules = [ "kvm-amd" "i2c-dev" ];
   boot.extraModulePackages = [ ];
-  boot.kernelParams = [ "mitigations=off" "acpi_enforce_resources=lax" "preempt=full" ];
+  boot.kernelParams = [ "nvidia_drm.modeset=1" "mitigations=off" "acpi_enforce_resources=lax" "preempt=full" ];
 
   boot.loader.efi.canTouchEfiVariables = true;
-  boot.plymouth.enable = true;
+  # boot.plymouth.enable = true;
   
   boot.supportedFilesystems = [ "ntfs" ];
 
@@ -45,6 +41,7 @@
 
   services.xserver.videoDrivers = [ "nvidia" ];
   hardware.nvidia.package = config.boot.kernelPackages.nvidiaPackages.beta;
+  # hardware.nvidia.package = config.boot.kernelPackages.nvidiaPackages.stable;
   hardware.nvidia.modesetting.enable = true;
   hardware.nvidia.powerManagement.enable = true;
   programs.xwayland.enable = true;
@@ -92,22 +89,19 @@
 
   xdg.portal = {
     enable = true;
-    gtkUsePortal = true;
     wlr = {
       enable = true;
-      settings = {
-        screencast = {
-          output_name = "DP-1";
-          max_fps = 60;
-          chooser_type = "simple";
-          chooser_amd = "${pkgs.slurp}/bin/slurp -f %o -or";
-        };
-      };
+      # settings = {
+      #   screencast = {
+      #     output_name = "DP-1";
+      #     max_fps = 60;
+      #     chooser_type = "simple";
+      #     chooser_nvidia = "${pkgs.slurp}/bin/slurp -f %o -or";
+      #   };
+      # };
     };
     extraPortals = with pkgs; [
-      xdg-desktop-portal-wlr
       xdg-desktop-portal-kde
-      xdg-desktop-portal-gtk
     ];
   };