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Niri – A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor

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Re: Niri – A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor

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Post by wrsh07 »

baq wrote: post #6

I'm basically fullscreen with everything all the time on macos, but not in the super-duper-fullscreen mode so cmd-tab/cmd-` works predictably. I want this on macos. I know I can't have it on macos. I also can't switch to Linux since macos is mandated by my employer. Nothing really to take out of it except that I feel like I'm not alone feeling stuck, knowing there are better workflows and not being able to do anythin…

I'm pretty much the same fwiw I currently use stage manager and double click the top bar of the window to maximize (that's different than the green button)

Re: Niri – A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor

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Post by lillecarl »

Niri is currently being "hugged to death", if you want to contribute: Donate to Ivan or review others PRs before making your own, the project has no commercial backing and he's "overloaded" by the projects recent success.

I've been using it for years now and it's obvious that Smithay and Niri are high-quality projects, I haven't had any issues other than missing features (more of which has become available over time).

Re: Niri – A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor

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Post by bsnnkv »

baq wrote: post #6

I'm basically fullscreen with everything all the time on macos, but not in the super-duper-fullscreen mode so cmd-tab/cmd-` works predictably. I want this on macos. I know I can't have it on macos. I also can't switch to Linux since macos is mandated by my employer. Nothing really to take out of it except that I feel like I'm not alone feeling stuck, knowing there are better workflows and not being able to do anythin…

I've been working on porting komorebi to macOS[1] over the past month and the scrolling layout[2] works pretty well

It (the scrolling layout) is not exactly the same as Niri because the implementation is based on my personal preferences, but it does what it's supposed to on both platforms

[1]: https://youtu.be/u3eJcsa_MJk?si=jSbDsAdLWQu0k1lZ

[2]: https://youtu.be/b1yECfF7Qyg?si=VXMbQo0RqtdzuDjG

Re: Niri – A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor

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Post by jasperry »

atlintots wrote: post #64
jasperry wrote: post #62

Does this or any other scrollable-tiling WM remember your preferred size of windows per-application? For instance, if I open a new Firefox window, I always want it to be the same width and full height. If I open a terminal, I want it to be half-height and the width I've set for terminals. Ideally, I'd want to set that in a configuration, so if I made adjustments to a window one time it wouldn't change the default siz…

Yes, please see this page: https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/wiki/Configuration:-Window-Ru...

Wow, very nice. I didn't know how long the project had been around, I wasn't expecting it to be this fleshed out.

Re: Niri – A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor

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Post by exasperaited »

aeon_ai wrote: post #36
antonyh wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I avoid anything to do with DHH for his views expressed on his blog. I'm sure Omarchy is nice and all, but there are other choices without the ethical baggage.

I'm familiar with DHH's opinions -- Can you elaborate on how there are ethical implications/baggage associated with using FOSS? Must we leave the vicinity of people we don't always agree with?

I am relaxed about the small potential downsides of not being in the vicinity of people who lionize Tommy Robinson.

Re: Niri – A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor

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Post by tom_ »

gedy wrote: post #61
baq wrote: post #6

I'm basically fullscreen with everything all the time on macos, but not in the super-duper-fullscreen mode so cmd-tab/cmd-` works predictably. I want this on macos. I know I can't have it on macos. I also can't switch to Linux since macos is mandated by my employer. Nothing really to take out of it except that I feel like I'm not alone feeling stuck, knowing there are better workflows and not being able to do anythin…

You might try Hammerspoon[0] with PaperWM.spoon[1] on macOS. This is what I use, and while it has quirks, it works better than not having it. [0] https://www.hammerspoon.org/ [1] https://github.com/mogenson/PaperWM.spoon

Hammerspoon is quite easy to use, so attempting to cobble together your own thing (that does exactly what you want) might also be feasible. The documentation is decent and the iteration time is short.

It took me about 30 minutes to replicate some Windows/AutoHotKey crap that I wrote myself and have been using for years, and it wasn't painful.

Re: Niri – A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor

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Post by evertedsphere »

i tried niri for a few months earlier this year

ultimately it turned out that after years of i3/sway scrollable tiling doesn't feel natural at all (and neither do dynamic workspaces, but that's less significant). when i resurrected my desktop a couple of months into the experiment i found it also lagged quite badly on my desktop with an nvidia card (a 3090, tried both drivers) and i couldn't be bothered to figure that one out so that was the final straw and i went back to sway

i was quite impressed with the level of thought that went into the ux and the amount of polish in everything though. it already feels like a serious, well-made piece of software, and it's not even that old yet

Re: Niri – A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor

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Post by talim »

hackerInnen wrote: post #16

Why all the animations? Not only for this WM, but hyprland, too, for example. They are just way too distracting, I don't understand why people like them. Yes, i know they can usually be deactivated, but it's stupid to have them as default

I usually turn off animations in most applications and WMs, but they seem to functionally benefit this window management style to help the user orient and recognize where things are relative to each other.

Before Niri I used PaperWM on Gnome with animations disabled and I found that it actually substantially reduces the usability of this sort of workflow for me. I'm not sure how to phrase it, but scrolling WMs feel a little more "physically grounded" and without the animations it was somewhat easy to become briefly disoriented whenever scrolling/opening/resizing/rearranging windows, at least once you start having 4+ workspaces and several screen widths worth of windows on each workspace.

Turning on the animations quickly makes it all snap into place and I never have the brief moment of "feeling lost" after an operation, so it sees inherently important to this WM style. The animations are very fast out of the box and do not feel superfluous.

Re: Niri – A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor

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Post by desireco42 »

evgpbfhnr wrote: post #60

My only complain about niri is that after a few weeks without reboot I end up with ~500 terms open, as I often open a new shell to check something, get distracted, and forget about it as it scrolls out of the view... (I usually notice at the 400-500 mark because this machine starts swapping noticeably, and closing it all is a chore that usually ends in pkill without checking...) Maybe a bit more self discipline would…

that is actually dream come true... let's keep everything open always :)
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