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The Future Is Niri

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Re: The Future Is Niri

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post #16

That video immediately made me wish this was available for Mac, it seemed to fit my brain's model of how things should be.

Should have mentioned that I use Moom at the moment on Mac, and I love it. It's that scrolling paradigm that interests me here though.

Re: The Future Is Niri

#73
Scrollable WMs are really terrific because you get about 80% of the productivity benefits of a tiling WM with 20% of the effort.

I am puzzeled by the fact it took us 30-40 years to figure it out !

Re: The Future Is Niri

#75
post #74

I use Gnome and basically full-screen all my windows. Sometimes I use win+left/right to create a half-width window. Am I a caveman?

I use this too, the keybinds carry to windows which is very convenient. I get stunlocked by muscle memory when working in macos tho.

Re: The Future Is Niri

#76
post #74

I use Gnome and basically full-screen all my windows. Sometimes I use win+left/right to create a half-width window. Am I a caveman?

I use this too, the keybinds carry to windows which is very convenient. I get stunlocked by muscle memory when working in macos tho.

Try out Rectangle. You can set keybinds to match what you're used to.

Re: The Future Is Niri

#77
post #74

I use Gnome and basically full-screen all my windows. Sometimes I use win+left/right to create a half-width window. Am I a caveman?

I'll occasionally do quarters. Especially half on one side, two quarter-windows on the other, for a 3-window arrangement. On Mac.

My key bindings are a little different because I use the defaults in Spectacle to do it. More than a decade like that. Program's discontinued but still works and has never given me so much as one problem this entire time, so I'm going to keep using it until it stops working.

Re: The Future Is Niri

#78

Scrollable WMs are really terrific because you get about 80% of the productivity benefits of a tiling WM with 20% of the effort. I am puzzeled by the fact it took us 30-40 years to figure it out !

I watched the video on the site and this looks like absolute hell, as someone who uses drag-n-drop between programs fairly often.

I'm also someone whose open browser tabs tend to grow indefinitely until I just have to bookmark and close all hundred of them or whatever, so... yeah, this entire paradigm looks extremely not for me.

Re: The Future Is Niri

#79
My biggest problem with wayland was support for french characters. So annoying, so basic. L'accent circonflexe ne marchait pas.

Last time I tried, a few weeks ago, it wasn't better.

Re: The Future Is Niri

#80
post #9

I would like to know, coming from a traditional tiling window manager, how does the shortcut workflow look like? For me the number one thing is having fixed shortcuts á la Super+[0-9] to go to specific windows / workspaces / essentially a specific program. If I can have that, and additionally solving the "worskpace management" problem as TFA described, I'm sold! Does it make sense to use "workspaces" like this with N…

Yes, Niri still supports numbered workspaces in the same was as WMs like Sway. It's just that now you can scroll them horizontally too.

The one caveat -- and it's a big one -- is that Niri numbers workspaces dynamically, and won't let you have an empty workspace (except temporarily).
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