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The Future Is Niri

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Re: The Future Is Niri

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Post by aendruk »

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

Tiling Assistant might be worth a try. It can be configured to be pretty out of the way and just add more snapping sizes, different per-monitor if you need.

https://github.com/Leleat/Tiling-Assistant

Re: The Future Is Niri

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Post by tincholio »

MadnessASAP wrote: post #69
20after4 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Niri is inspired by paperWM and it’s so much smoother. If you liked PaperWM then niri might be worth a look. It does suffer a bit because it’s not built within the gnome environment. So niri is missing a few things that gnome provides “for free.” Niri leaves it up to you find replacements for some pretty basic functionality. Some things it seems to be missing: - Desktop notifications - App launcher - dock or any sort…

It's the distinction between a "window manager" and a "desktop environment" KDE/Gnome/XFCE are DEs that include window managers (KWin/Mutter/xfwm4) along with a suite of other utilities that make up the complete environment. Conversely, Sway, Niri, Hyprland, i3 are bare window managers. They do not include the suite of tools and it is left up to the user to build their environment as they wish. Fortunately thanks to…

Mixing can work pretty well. I'm using Plasma with i3 as a WM, and it hits the perfect spot for me. Not sure if the same thing can be done on Wayland, though?

Re: The Future Is Niri

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Post by kazinator »

If you drag some text from here to there, it could be good to have it stay selected. You might have dragged it not quite where you wanted it; it might need another drag.

Or am I misunderstanding "changed somehow to keep the selection happening after you released the mouse".

(I understand that people don't like UI changes that break their muscle memory of course.)

Re: The Future Is Niri

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Post by MyOutfitIsVague »

I've gone on and off tiling WMs over the years. I've just switched from Sway to this, and I'm really enjoying it so far. I have a lot of the same issues with Sway. I really like Sway, but to get the windows working great for me, I end up having to do a lot of manual window management.

I really liked Paper WM with Gnome, but it had lots of little nits that made it frustrating to use (but it did a very admirable job for a Gnome shell extension), and I went back to Sway.

Re: The Future Is Niri

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Post by MyOutfitIsVague »

Starlevel004 wrote: post #50

I tried using Niri but the per-monitor workspace behaviour is completely unacceptable to me. I don't use a laptop.

This is interesting and subjective. A shared workspace is completely unacceptable to me. I need my monitors to have different, unlinked workspaces that can be independently switched. It's one of the things I hated about using Gnome.

Re: The Future Is Niri

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Post by wao0uuno »

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

PaperWM is almost exactly what Niri is in a Gnome extension form. It might actually also be the first to implement that kind of workflow. https://github.com/paperwm/PaperWM

Re: The Future Is Niri

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Post by muixoozie »

alabastervlog wrote: post #78
sunshine-o wrote: post #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 !

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.

> 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...

You might like the tabstash browser extension

Re: The Future Is Niri

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Post by jumperabg »

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 am trying to run it on PopOS with a nix flake but doesn't seem to work also the PopOS login screen doesn't seem to support switching desktop environments(might be an issue on my end).
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