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The Future Is Niri

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Re: The Future Is Niri

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Post by vindex10 »

freedomben wrote: post #94
tasuki wrote: 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?

This is me exactly haha. What I really want is just gnome with a little more tiling capability for the rare occasion, like thirds and quarters. But the majority of my tiling needs are in the terminal and tmux is the hero

Did you see Pop OS?

https://pop.system76.com/

They follow ubuntu releases, kind of. The downside, they went all in into their new desktop env - cosmic, and until they release it they won't move on from 20.04..

I really loved the tiling feature in PopOS 20.04 which came out of the box. But then I bought a new laptop, and had to move to arch to use it..

Re: The Future Is Niri

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Post by rob74 »

tasuki wrote: 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 used to do that when I had a two-monitor setup - one full-screen window per monitor. Now that I have one 4K monitor I usually have two windows side by side, and very occasionally quartered (sometimes of course also one window on one side and two on the other). Not sure if this "workflow" would lend itself to a tiling window manager (never tried one), because some of the windows are also stacked?

Re: The Future Is Niri

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Post by eximius »

Glad to see Smithay has approached a point that lots of things are being built on it. Last I really deeply looked at all this was when Way Cooler abandoned wlroots-rs.

And to my pleasant surprise, it seems like there may finally be an AwesomeWM alternative for Wayland now! (Pinnacle)

Re: The Future Is Niri

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

flkiwi wrote: post #81

I tried to use niri, but I couldn't get it working on NixOS. That is almost certainly user error on my part, but, as a devoted paperwm user in my gnome days, I'm very much on board with what niri is offering. And since this is a discussion of linux window managers: Currently I'm using hyprland, which is great, but the one I really want to keep maturing is river. It's a very sensible WM that is nonetheless not complet…

> I tried to use niri, but I couldn't get it working on NixOS.

Couldn't get what to work? Like, you switch to a VT, run

  nix-shell -p niri
  niri
and it crashes, or...?

Re: The Future Is Niri

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Post by speckx »

tasuki wrote: 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 do this, but on KDE. Occasionally, I need four horizontal windows since I'm on an ultrawide, so I use the built-in KWin tiling (https://planet.kde.org/marco-martin-2022-10-31-kwin-and-tili...).

Re: The Future Is Niri

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Post by Vinnl »

freedomben wrote: post #94
tasuki wrote: 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?

This is me exactly haha. What I really want is just gnome with a little more tiling capability for the rare occasion, like thirds and quarters. But the majority of my tiling needs are in the terminal and tmux is the hero

I'd really like someone to implement https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2023/07/26/rethinking-windo...

Re: The Future Is Niri

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Post by phildenhoff »

jackbravo wrote: post #62
jackbravo wrote: post #61

Is there something equivalent or similar for MacOS? This seems great! I use (and pay) for the magnet app, I don't like the native fullscreen functionality or split screen options.

Ha! The niri README has an answer for this, https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri , it is https://github.com/mogenson/PaperWM.spoon , "Tiled scrollable window manager for MacOS".

Thanks! As soon as I saw Niri I wondered if there was a macOS alternative.

Aerospace has a similar resizing glitch as PaperWM.spoon: resizing one direction ends up looking wonky if you do it fast enough. It’s noticeable at the end of the smooth scrolling demo. That must be a macOS thing…

I may check out PaperWM.spoon at some point but realistically I’ll set up a VM and try out Niri

Re: The Future Is Niri

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Post by IshKebab »

tasuki wrote: 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?

Me too. For most things I want all the screen space for the one thing I'm working on. Occasionally I need to look at two things. I almost never need to look at more than two things and I don't have a 100" screen anyway so there wouldn't be space.

Re: The Future Is Niri

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Post by presto8 »

jdiez17 wrote: post #84

I’m also a long time i3/sway user and find Niri quite comfy. I can carry over most of my muscle memory from sway for navigating the focus, moving windows etc. I’ve also found it to be very stable and works out of the box with xwayland-satellite. My biggest issue is that I keep “losing” windows. I open them in a deeply nested stack, do something else and forgot I already had opened the window. It also happens with swa…

Would alttab meet your needs? I've been using it with xmonad and it works well. https://github.com/sagb/alttab

Re: The Future Is Niri

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Post by pjerem »

romforth wrote: post #65
bilekas wrote: post #6

> The worst "street-cred" I have is that I've been using tiling window managers for thirty-five percent of my life: five years with Sway and two with i3. As the realization of those numbers (and my age) dawns upon me The author is ~21 and seems worried they're old ? I had a good giggle about that.. And then it dawned upon me how old I actually am.

I've been faithfully using the same window manager [olvwm] for ~30 years and counting. In fact the decision about which [distro] I pick for daily use is totally dependent on whether it can be coaxed into running [xview]+olvwm. [olvwm]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olvwm [distro]: https://ces.mataroa.blog/blog/distro_hoppingmd [xview]: https://github.com/olvwm/xview

Now that’s what I call being retro :)
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