Niri Is My New Favorite Wayland Compositor

https://tube.archworks.co/w/rZy8otrGR5etczG2Gp6r47

@astian @elmau Sorry, fellow South Americans, but I have read nasty, nasty things about you guys, like stolen code and shady propaganda.

@ryo I maintain #timepatrol. Perhaps you want to have a look.
https://github.com/abdeoliveira/timepatrol

@mauro LOL

@mauro that's why I use btrfs and snapshot my system frequently.

@maikel I would move to Windows before leaving Firefox :blobpats:

@vwbusguy for me, btrfs is all about snapshots. It has never, ever disappointed me in years of use.

I just tried #hyprland again and I personally don't like it. I can really explain why ... but is just to much...
So I just keep my three wms:
- #niri (daily use)
- #gnome (almost never start it, but love their apps)
- #swaywm as rock solid backup

@inlovewithpda I moved from hyprland to niri a year (or so) ago and do not look back. Hyprland is great and it has a bigger userbase than niri, yes. Still I prefer niri since it is more "workflow-driven" than "anime-girls-wallpaper-glitter-bombs-animation"-driven. :-)

After long 3 months of work, I'm glad to release niri v25.05 with the Overview, screenshot UI tablet and touch support, dynamic screencast target and windowed fullscreen, IPC pick-window and pick-color, window urgency, and lots of other things! :ablobcatbongo: :apartyblobcat:

Release notes prepared for your reading pleasure as always: https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/releases/tag/v25.05

#niri #smithay #rust #wayland

@Epsilon_02 thank you for your input. I believe you will love niri.
Regarding ddcutil, it is a tool which allows you to communicate with your monitor through command line, but there are restrictions: the monitor must have this capability and also it must be enabled on settings. Your GPU card must allow it (not sure it there is any kernel level restriction as well) and your connection with the monitor have to support it (I have tested HDMI and it works).

I use #linux with #niri window manager and I need a new monitor. Anyone could give me a feedback about how window managers perform in hi-resolution monitors? Particularly, is 4K overkill?
I also want to use ddcutil to change brightness (I have very sensitive eyes 😞 )

#arch #gentoo #debian

@shai this joke is a timeless classic. :badabing:

For a while, a dog in Milan, Italy named Cacao, frequently rode the No. 54 bus—by himself! Yes, really. He would only board the bus if he recognized the driver, whom he had known for years. Cacao would go to a park and simply wander around gardens and public spaces before taking the same bus back to his house, where his owner, known only as Nicoletta, would wait for him to come back.

#Perl: There is more than one way to do it.
#Python: There should be one obvious way to do it.
#Nix: There is no straightforward way to do it.
#Haskell: There is no way to do it.

#programming

@jloc0 bumped! :-)

No one bumped me to say #plasma 6.3.1 was out today... 😜 While I was out, the repo had updated itself with the latest #kde6 #slackware packages for 6.3.1 as well as a new yt-dlp refresh! I also re-added qca/qcoro so we are still completely covering the /kde directory within Slackware. You can use either slack's packages or my own, it makes no difference. Cheers! https://slackware.lngn.net/

@farooqkz @aspragg @boz how do you intend to do that? Through PPA? If so, think twice since most PPA's are not designed to be used in systems other than Ubuntu. There are exceptions but generally PPAs are likely to break the unbreakable Debian.

@AndyScott@fosstodon.org Convenience. Templates for Void (their pkgbuild) created by users are dispersed all over the places. AUR has a solid infrastructure and a big user base. AUR has helpers like yay, paru, etc. When using void I had to pack some some apps myself (one of them was even included into their repos, the gcalcli). Void is a great distro overall but I found my self spending too much time dealing with a non-systemd standard (less docs obviously) and figuring out how installing packages I needed.

@selea Thank you so much for your financial commitment, your time and your work to make this great Mastodon instance possible! I have just sent you a small amount via PayPal to contribute to it and hope to do so regularly!

I also hope that many other users of this instance can also make a small contribution to support you in your work to keep this cool instance going for a very, very long time!

Greetings from Vienna!

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