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The Future Is Niri

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Re: The Future Is Niri

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Post by brightball »

_hyn3 wrote: post #199
brightball wrote: post #197

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Been using i3 for the last year and I feel all of the pain points from this article. Overall, I deeply prefer i3 to gnome but the "everything gets resized" pain point is very real. Particularly when getting on a lot of calls with Zoom and the "notifications" seem to bypass the build in notifications on the system, instead treating each Zoom notification like it's own window...amplifying the problem. I'm going to have…

# for floating windows default_floating_border none # make sure pavucontrol is floated; use xprop (cli) to get window title/class/etc for_window [class="Pavucontrol"] floating enable, resize set height 512, opacity 0.3 # https://faq.i3wm.org/question/61/forcing-windows-as-always-f...

Thanks! I'll try that.

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Post by TheRealPomax »

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?

Depends. Do you use 49" 3.5:1 ultra wide screen, or a 24" 4:3? If the latter, probably not. If the former, there should be questions. Potentially lots of questions.

Re: The Future Is Niri

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Post by timeon »

incanus77 wrote: post #60
drcongo wrote: 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.

Check out AeroSpace. It’s pretty amazing. I’m wondering if it can be made to do things like Niri. https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace

Does anybody have experience comparing it with Yabai?

Re: The Future Is Niri

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Post by glenstein »

ghc wrote: post #196
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?

Well, keep in mind that based on the author's "street cred", they are only 20. I think many of us would agree that when we were 20 our tolerance for all sorts of tinkering and BS in software was almost infinite compared to what it became after several years in the workforce or having a family. I only bring this up because I have seen a dozen or more tiling WMs come and go over the past 20 years, many of which were to…

I feel like all of the cool things about tiling window managers were actually all of the things other than the tiling. They have style, they're lightning fast, they're stable, they're customizable. They have practically a non-existent footprint in terms of resource consumption.

It's their superpower, and also they tile if you're into that. I never fell into a particularly useful workflow with tiling window managers myself, but as an invitation into the world of alternative lightweight Linux window managers, it's one of the most powerful demonstrations of the things Linux can do great.

Re: The Future Is Niri

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Post by Maken »

mempko wrote: post #160
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've been using Tiling Shell extension with gnome. https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/7065/tiling-shell/ I really love it so far.

This actually looks great.

Re: The Future Is Niri

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Post by Maken »

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 use quarter windows ar best. Just like many others by the looks of it.

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Post by t_mahmood »

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 think, some of you will love this extension.

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/4548/tactile/

I am an i3 convert, but I feel this is very useful, if you don't want a full-blown tiling extension, but want some of the convenience of tiling, this is such a simple solution!

Re: The Future Is Niri

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Post by blyry »

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 think that's how most people work. I watched a colleague use his MacBook for react dev and all of his windows were just...like whatever size and position they opened at, but never full screen? My 3 monitor brain couldn't compute lol.

I have a laptop, 24" centered horizontal centered and a 24" vertical monitor and do a vertical half split for Spotify/teams/shell/outlook, with docs on the laptop screen and ide on the main window full screen. And virtual desktops for design/research, dev and personal.

Sticking with the standard monitor sizes instead of 4k or ultrawide makes screen sharing way simpler as well!

Small gripe, Modern UI design with 10px of padding around everything means most apps and pages HAVE to be full screen to get anything done.

Re: The Future Is Niri

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Post by the_gipsy »

TylerE wrote: post #45
BirAdam wrote: post #33

Having heard about Niri previously, I really didn't like the sound of it. Seeing the movement with hotkeys shown with each movement... well... that completely changed my perspective. I will have to give it a try.

Funny, I'm the opposite. The idea is intriguing, but I absolutely do not want animated. I have vision issues and animation just makes everything go (more) blurry.

You can entirely turn off all animations. You can also turn off only some, like workspace switching, and reduce the durations globally.
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