Niri 26.04: Scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor
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Re: Niri 26.04: Scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor
#2Niri is so good. I've switched to using it about 5 months ago and it was legit the best computing decision I can remember making in recent history to move away from Windows.
I have a huge amount of gratitude towards the author of niri.
My dotfiles have always included an install script for setting everything up around command line tools, theme switching and more but it fully supports niri now too on Arch based distros https://github.com/nickjj/dotfiles in case anyone is shopping around for a new desktop environment and wants to get going quickly. I run it on both my main desktop and a travel laptop.
Re: Niri 26.04: Scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor
#3Niri is so good. I've switched to using it about 5 months ago and it was legit the best computing decision I can remember making in recent history to move away from Windows. I have a huge amount of gratitude towards the author of niri. My dotfiles have always included an install script for setting everything up around command line tools, theme switching and more but it fully supports niri now too on Arch based distro…
Same. I also find Niri paired with an ultrawide curved monitor to be particularly good.
Re: Niri 26.04: Scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor
#4Niri introduced scroll-based window management to me and it instantly clicked. I'm very happy to see a full-on Niri per-workspace emulation mode in OmniWM[1] for the Mac, recently and thankfully made compatible with Sequoia. It immediately became my main window manager.
Re: Niri 26.04: Scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor
#5If you are on a Mac, check out OmniWM, which has a Niri layout, in addition to one that's more like Hyprland. It has made my work on MacOS much more pleasant.
https://github.com/BarutSRB/OmniWM
I posted about it a bit ago when I just started using it, and it's been really great. Highly recommended.
Re: Niri 26.04: Scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor
#6Niri is so good. I've switched to using it about 5 months ago and it was legit the best computing decision I can remember making in recent history to move away from Windows. I have a huge amount of gratitude towards the author of niri. My dotfiles have always included an install script for setting everything up around command line tools, theme switching and more but it fully supports niri now too on Arch based distro…
Same. I also find Niri paired with an ultrawide curved monitor to be particularly good.
+1, ultrawide curved monitor user, used to be on sway but the experience of niri is next level.
Re: Niri 26.04: Scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor
#7A few releases back when niri got "proper" Alt-Tab behavior like one expects from more mainline WMs made it pretty much perfect for me. Could not dream of wanting anything more than what it already has.
Re: Niri 26.04: Scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor
#8I switched to Niri at the end of last year after over a decade on i3.[1] Having horizontal scroll unbounded by my monitor size and workspace count unbound by the number of shortcut keys I have configured has been very freeing, and the graphical stuff is nice too.
My only remaining pain point is that its X compatibility layer, xwayland-satellite, does not yet support drag and drop between X and Wayland programs.[2]
[1]: https://davidyat.es/2026/01/28/niri/
[2]: https://github.com/Supreeeme/xwayland-satellite/issues/133
Re: Niri 26.04: Scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor
#9This sounds very interesting. I'm currently in the middle of revisiting my desktop setup and interaction style. Landed on Qtile/Wayland but now I'm starting to notice lag.
> Every monitor has its own separate window strip. Windows can never "overflow" onto an adjacent monitor
I'm someone who was very content with the constraint of a laptop (one single screen, generally running one maximized window per workspace and switching with F-keys), but has never really become comfortable with multi-monitors. Can anyone explain why window managers always default to treating individual monitors as completely separate entities rather than one larger screen that works together? Like I would have thought the default here would be to have two monitors operate on the same horizontally-scrolling set of windows. Either tied together, or as independent viewports. But everybody always seems to reach towards treating each monitor as having disjoint windows. Which I guess I can get used to, it just seems odd?
Re: Niri 26.04: Scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor
#10Niri is so good. I've switched to using it about 5 months ago and it was legit the best computing decision I can remember making in recent history to move away from Windows. I have a huge amount of gratitude towards the author of niri. My dotfiles have always included an install script for setting everything up around command line tools, theme switching and more but it fully supports niri now too on Arch based distro…
Same. I also find Niri paired with an ultrawide curved monitor to be particularly good.
Yeah it is a dream on ultrawides. I was able to get a decent custom config with Qtile, but Niri is so much more natural. Being able to hit mod+c and center the current window is just so perfect on the ultrawide.