Niri Debuts As A Scrollable-Tiling Wayland Compositor Inspired By PaperWM
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Hey folks,

remember the post that was made a few months ago about an infinite canvas/scrollable WM? Here we have the stable release of a (onedirectional) scrollable one inspired by gnome’s PaperWM.

Aaaand… …it’s written in Rust!

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    74·
    10 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    The newest Wayland compositor on the scene with its first stable release is Niri, a scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor inspired by the PaperWM GNOME Shell extesnsion.

    The Niris v0.1 Wayland compositor positions all windows into an infinite horizontal strip that scrolls left and right.

    Niri v0.1 supports multiple monitors, mixed GPU systems, HiDPI displays, dynamic workspaces, screencasting support via the GNOME XDG Desktop portal, live-reloading configuration system, a configurable layout, and other features that are off to a good start for this compositor.

    Here are some screenshots of Niri v0.1 in action provided by this open-source project:

    Niri v0.1 is available in source form as well as packages via community repositories for Fedora COPR, NixOS Flake, Arch Linux AUR package, and also a FreeBSD port.

    Downloads and more details on the Niri v0.1 release via GitHub.

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      • Para_lyzed@lemmy.world
        6·
        10 months ago

        Going through the GitHub page for the bot, it seems that this is intended behavior by the dev. In their own words:

        I think it still serves its purpose of people not having to leave the community to see what the article is about.

        I agree with this, personally, as I don’t like having to follow links to read articles. It’s nice having a comment with a TL;DR, or for very short articles having the whole article in the comments. Plus, it’s not like one (relatively short) comment really adds bloat to the comments section, it’s something that can be easily scrolled past.