#niri

2025-12-09

I think this is the happiest I've been with my linux desktop experience ever. #niri #dankMaterialShell

screenshot of a linux desktop, showing terminal windows, a file explorer and the DMS launcher, as well as toolbars and a semi-transparent background.
2025-12-09
cursor {
xcursor-theme "breeze_cursors"
xcursor-size 24
}

I've been using #niri exclusively on #AlpineLinux for over a month and only today I bothered to doas apk add breeze-cursors.

2025-12-08

@weavejester #niri looks great!

Weavejesterweavejester
2025-12-08

Three-finger scrolling in is broken on Gnome 49, so I've been trying out the window manager with dms as an alternative. So far it feels snappy and polished - I'm very impressed! My only real complaint is that it lacks an option to turn off window snapping when scrolling.

Mario José Medjeralmariomedjeral
2025-12-08

@YaLTeR

Niri is absolutely nice. Congratulations Ivan.
Another excellent Russian software.

If I move to Wayland, Niri will be my choice.

Meanwhile myself enjoying XMonad while XOrg is still on.

Ivan MolodetskikhYaLTeR@mastodon.online
2025-12-07

funny how while working on alt-tab i discovered that mouse scrolling on top of the DMS bar switches workspaces, which completely replaced any need i had for alt-tab, so i ended up never using it

this DMS bar scrolling feature also removed one of my main usecases for the overview

and then the new horizontal window drag gesture removed my other main usecase for the overview, so now i'm opening the overview quite rarely too

(both have their uses; just curious to watch my own habits shift)

#niri

in ♥️ with PDA (and 🐧)inlovewithpda@chaos.social
2025-12-07

I love #niri so much. In combination with #rofi ... so easy to a scale dialog, that stores the factor in the kdl file.

Scale Dialog for niri
in ♥️ with PDA (and 🐧)inlovewithpda@chaos.social
2025-12-06

just updated to #niri 25.11. well done @YaLTeR !!!!
But is there a way to style the scope hint in recent windows?

Tanja :spinny_cat_lesbian: 🔜 39c3 - ☎️ 4201tanja@catgirl.cloud
2025-12-05

Hey @YaLTeR,

is this your donations page (or an imposter :neocat_amogus:?)

liberapay.com/YaLTeR/

#niri

2025-12-05

Hmm why is this erroring out? It’s like #niri hates my laptop lol. I might be stuck with X.org and XFCE4 which whatever. Only system that isn’t a tiling window manager. #guix #guile

Screenshot , niri build error
Manuel *hunting Eudaimonia*mmorschel
2025-12-05

@YaLTeR

Hey, wanted to give you a big shout and thanks for . I just used it for two days now and already fell in love with it.

The workflow and how the compositor handles new windows is just lit. Added the scratchpad script and now it's just beatiful and so useful!

mickeymnemonix
2025-12-05
Captura de pantalla de un escritorio de computadora con una estética futurista y oscura. El fondo de pantalla muestra un paisaje de ciencia ficción con un gran planeta o luna oscura dominando el cielo. En primer plano, se alzan dos estructuras monumentales, parecidas a torres o máquinas complejas, adornadas con numerosos engranajes y detalles mecánicos, que parecen flotar entre nubes bajas. El ambiente es sombrío y misterioso, con tonos predominantemente morados, grises y azules oscuros, iluminados por un suave resplandor rosado en el horizonte.

Sobre este fondo, una ventana de terminal de color oscuro se abre en la parte superior izquierda. Muestra la salida del comando `fastfetch`, con un logotipo grande y estilizado de openSUSE en amarillo brillante.

En la parte superior de la pantalla, una barra de tareas oscura muestra la hora (13:15) y la fecha (5 de diciembre de 2025) en el centro, junto con varios iconos pequeños a la izquierda y a la derecha que indican el estado del sistema y aplicaciones.
2025-12-04
I don't understand the new trend of using shells in window managers like #hyprland or #niri. they just don't seem practical to me and a lot of resource bloat. If you want something like that and use your mouse why wouldn't you just use #KDE or #GNOME ?

I feel like it just goes back to a common #linux thing that can be summed up as "the answer to a question no one asked" which seems to be very common in linux i.e. launchers, panels, etc. why use a launcher when you have a terminal? why have a panel at all in a tiling WM? all the information displayed can literally be added to a prompt or heck just add it to something like tmux.
Manuel *hunting Eudaimonia*mmorschel
2025-12-03

3. And then typically I can't stop: Now I'm sitting before and heck, I like it. A scrolling window manage is another kind of beast and I miss my scratchpads/ special workspaces for example but I do like the scroller for work (multiple libre office instaneces, terminals, browsers which don't get in the way but are easy accessible.)

We'll see if I go back to a more classic workflow. :)

2025-12-03

After switching to #Niri each time I tried to wake up my #Surface it immediately got suspended again.

Only way to get into system was to spam Alt+Super+F2 to get into console during resume. It got suspended again, but next time I hit the power button, it stayed awake in console.

I was pretty sure that it was something in Niri but not completely sure and quick search didn't help.

It would be pretty short story, but it really seems like I'm incapable of heeding my own advice "never change more things at once". So not only I switched to Niri, but at the same time I moved part of my configuration to #Guix Home and "tuned" my suspend configuration. Completely nuked previous compositor. And removed sddm which I used for login. And I installed Niri from Guix ofc, so I wasn't sure what was the cause. Did I broke suspending? Maybe some problem between #ArchLinux and Guix Home? Systemd Login change? `HandlePowerKey` missbehaviour?

So long story short, last night I finally had some time to look into this and find out that #systemd (which is currently used for suspend) had usefull command `systemd-inhibit --list` and it was immediately clear:

niri 1000 kepi 125538 niri handle-power-key Power key handling block

Ok, it really is Niri. And I looked over the configuration ofc, but I search engines sucks these days and in documentation, I went mainly over bindings configurations and totally missed General Settings in Input section yalter.github.io/niri/Configur

So key takeaway? Never change more things at once. I hope that this will be natural and much easier while I'm fully moving into Guix world :)

Screenshot of terminal with following text:

❯ systemd-inhibit --list
WHO            UID  USER PID    COMM           WHAT             WHY                                       MODE
ModemManager   0    root 807    ModemManager   sleep            ModemManager needs to reset devices       delay
NetworkManager 0    root 947    NetworkManager sleep            NetworkManager needs to turn off networks delay
UPower         0    root 2525   upowerd        sleep            Pause device polling                      delay
niri           1000 kepi 125538 niri           handle-power-key Power key handling                        block
swayidle       1000 kepi 125597 swayidle       sleep            Swayidle is preventing sleep              delay
2025-12-01

My custom desktop shell I've been working on for several months now

OS:
WM:
shell:

repo: github.com/tpaau/dots

Sorry for no alt, there's not much I can do here, hopefully @altbot will come up with something sensible.

2025-12-01

Wenn #niri bloß ein klein bisschen mehr wie #mangowc wäre. Das gefällt mir gerade etwas besser, nicht zuletzt auch wegen dem "natíven" Scratchpad.
Ein zusätzliches Tile-Layout würde mir in niri schon genügen.

Ansonsten finde ich, daß Yalter einen tollen Job macht. Die Changelogs sind der Wahnsinn! Ich kenne kein Projekt mit besseren Changelogs. Kudos!

#windowtiling #wayland

2025-12-01

@khleedril awesome now I have Linux kernel not Libre. Trying to build #niri now using same substitute.

2025-11-30

I was thinking setting g up a build farm myself and deploying it and letting others know in my area , so it’s much more faster to build. Downloading Linux microcode and firmware , this is fantastic. If this works I might try to install #niri and build again.

2025-11-30

La distribution #PikaOS avec #Niri me fait de l'œil très très fort pour mon prochain setup Gaming. Les promesses de #PopOS et de COSMIC ne m'ont pas convaincues après plus d'un an d'utilisation.

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