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I'm actually more interested in the Niri "A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor". It never occurred to me that a valid desktop/windowing paradigm would be one

I'm actually more interested in the Niri "A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor". It never occurred to me that a valid desktop/windowing paradigm would be one with an infinite horizontal strip. Not sure if I want it, but it's pretty unique. https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri?tab=readme-ov-file https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri?tab=readme-ov-file

evgpbfhnr 1y ago
I've switched from wmii (old suckless tiling wm) to niri a couple of months ago and I've been happier with it than with sway/i3 -- give it a shot :)
cenamus 1y ago
Is it similar to the Gnome plugin PaperWM?
- emaro 1y ago
  Yes, Niri is inspired by PaperWM afaik.
sunshine-o 1y ago
Scrollable-tiling is the best. Especially if you have two wide monitors side by side.
nicman23 1y ago
i used to do something like that with i3. binding meta+tab to go to the next workplace and some combos to move the windows with the same base. then i realized that it is basically just want i did with compiz or kwin and moved back lol
yencabulator 1y ago
Think of it less as an "infinite strip" (with implications of windows being lost in the mist, far away) and more as "each workspace is laid out in a strip". Most of my workspaces have 2-5 columns, with 2-3 fitting on an ultrawide monitor at once.[1] It's more like "what if tiling window manager, but with even less time spent on adjusting window sizes". [1]: Let's agree not to talk of the insanity that contains my open browser windows. That is as near infinite as 96 GB RAM lets me have..
rekado 1y ago
I'm using it on Guix via the Rosenthal channel: https://codeberg.org/hako/rosenthal.git https://codeberg.org/hako/rosenthal.git I quite like it because it's more predictable than automatic tiling window managers and generally less work than manual tilers. (I've used tilers since maybe 2010 with xmonad.)

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I'm actually more interested in the Niri "A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor". It never occurred to me that a valid desktop/windowing paradigm would be one

by abrookewood 1y ago

evgpbfhnr 1y ago
I've switched from wmii (old suckless tiling wm) to niri a couple of months ago and I've been happier with it than with sway/i3 -- give it a shot :)
cenamus 1y ago
Is it similar to the Gnome plugin PaperWM?
- emaro 1y ago
  Yes, Niri is inspired by PaperWM afaik.
sunshine-o 1y ago
Scrollable-tiling is the best. Especially if you have two wide monitors side by side.
nicman23 1y ago
i used to do something like that with i3. binding meta+tab to go to the next workplace and some combos to move the windows with the same base. then i realized that it is basically just want i did with compiz or kwin and moved back lol
yencabulator 1y ago
Think of it less as an "infinite strip" (with implications of windows being lost in the mist, far away) and more as "each workspace is laid out in a strip". Most of my workspaces have 2-5 columns, with 2-3 fitting on an ultrawide monitor at once.[1] It's more like "what if tiling window manager, but with even less time spent on adjusting window sizes". [1]: Let's agree not to talk of the insanity that contains my open browser windows. That is as near infinite as 96 GB RAM lets me have..
rekado 1y ago
I'm using it on Guix via the Rosenthal channel: https://codeberg.org/hako/rosenthal.git https://codeberg.org/hako/rosenthal.git I quite like it because it's more predictable than automatic tiling window managers and generally less work than manual tilers. (I've used tilers since maybe 2010 with xmonad.)