I'm on hyprland (which also has a scrolling layout). How do you guys navigate between your workspaces? I'm accomodated to super+, which jumps to workspace # with a mostly fixed purpose. If I opened something ad-hoc, I usually know where I placed it. I found it difficult to operate in a setting which more resembles the state of my desk (if it weren't random access).
Niri 26.04: Scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor
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Re: Niri 26.04: Scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor
#12I'm on hyprland (which also has a scrolling layout). How do you guys navigate between your workspaces? I'm accomodated to super+ , which jumps to workspace # with a mostly fixed purpose. If I opened something ad-hoc, I usually know where I placed it. I found it difficult to operate in a setting which more resembles the state of my desk (if it weren't random access).
Exactly as you do.
The thing that's different at first is that workspaces are organized vertically rather than horizontally, but I for one adapted to that really quick (coming from KDE).
Re: Niri 26.04: Scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor
#13I’ve gotten so used to the tiling WM workflow of quick-switching between a bunch of different dedicated fullscreen workspaces and managing windows with pure keyboard. Each workspace typically has a single app, or terminal with tmux, but occasionally I’ll split two apps side by side.
Would love to hear the perspective of anyone who switched from a similar workflow to Niri. How does the mental model shift?
Re: Niri 26.04: Scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor
#14I’ve gotten so used to the tiling WM workflow of quick-switching between a bunch of different dedicated fullscreen workspaces and managing windows with pure keyboard. Each workspace typically has a single app, or terminal with tmux, but occasionally I’ll split two apps side by side. Would love to hear the perspective of anyone who switched from a similar workflow to Niri. How does the mental model shift?
I switched from KDE with almost what you mentioned: Workspace 1 had a fullscreen terminal with zellij, Workspace 2 had a browser, workspace 3 had two chat apps open and that was it. Bindings to switch between those.
I switched to niri because it was different and more lightweight than a full plasma setup at first, but now adapted my workflow a bit.
Most of the time, the individual windows I have are screen-sized still, similarly organized: 1 has development, 2 has browser(s) and occasionally my email reader, 3 has my chat apps.
I open new terminal windows more frequently for just firing a few commands or starting some long-running thing that I need to look at from time to time. With KDE, I had these windows in the background, now I have them side-by-side on "1". "Alt-Tab"ing between them in retrospective feels clunky now compared to Super-hjkl'ing through the windows... YMMV of course, but I think my workflow got "lighter" because of that, no more "windows over eachother" but rather "next to eachother" ... gives a feeling of lightness to me.
Re: Niri 26.04: Scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor
#15Niri 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.
Same². I started to regret having an ultrawide, until I discovered that it was made for Niri. I never loved my screen and linux as much as I do since Niri.
Re: Niri 26.04: Scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor
#16I’ve gotten so used to the tiling WM workflow of quick-switching between a bunch of different dedicated fullscreen workspaces and managing windows with pure keyboard. Each workspace typically has a single app, or terminal with tmux, but occasionally I’ll split two apps side by side. Would love to hear the perspective of anyone who switched from a similar workflow to Niri. How does the mental model shift?
i create 4 fixed workspaces per monitor in the config, and use it that way
Re: Niri 26.04: Scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor
#17I recently switched to niri after bouncing off it about a year ago, and this time it stuck.
One thing I learned in the process was that the custom wayland desktop world has the concept of a "desktop shell," which provides most or all of the additional components you might want on top of your compositor, rather than having to separately install a top bar, manage suspend/hibernate, figure out notifications, etc. You can of course still do all of that, but you can also just install niri and something like the "dank material shell"[0] and be off to the races. I first discovered this via awesome-niri[1].
The combination of niri and the shell means that the extent of my custom NixOS configuration for the two is entirely limited to keybindings and some custom window rules for zoom.
Re: Niri 26.04: Scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor
#18I use mangowm on the wl-only branch(which is based on wlroots 0.20). It uses a lot less resources, has more layouts and I have fewer problems with it. Although niri seems to have more eye candy. It's definitely worth giving a try. If you want HDR, you have to wait though.
Re: Niri 26.04: Scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor
#19Slightly off topic: Does anyone know a window manager where you can map virtual desktops to real monitors? E.g. When I'm on the move I cycle through my virtual desktops on my laptop screen, but when connecting a monitor I want to cycle between my virtual desktops independently on either screen. While both screens share the same set of virtual desktops.
Re: Niri 26.04: Scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor
#20If 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.
I'm sorry, but they have the worst demo video I have seen in my life. Nobody will want to try their software after watching that video. If you watch it, you will probably want to uninstall it, even if you're already a user.