Nostr notes by Ivan Molodetskikh

I switched from Firefox to Telegram to paste a link, then ...

2026-09-19T19:21:05Z

I switched from Firefox to Telegram to paste a link, then switched back, and the current tab already unloaded. This Samsung S22+ has 8 GB of RAM. I am really at a loss, am I missing something about how computers operate?

Video Trimmer 26.03.1, live on Flathub, fixes a known case where ...

2026-05-26T09:20:03Z

Video Trimmer 26.03.1, live on Flathub, fixes a known case where trimming an .mp4 file could leave some frames before the start of the video that were only visible in certain players (VLC, Firefox). Trimming is still restricted to keyframes, but they should now be visible in all players.

If you can reproduce the invisible frame problem on 26.03.1, please open an issue attaching the input file and trim timestamp.

https://flathub.org/en/apps/org.gnome.gitlab.YaLTeR.VideoTrimmer

After five months of (on and off) development, I'm glad to ...

2026-04-25T14:15:07Z

In reply to nevent1q…227l
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After five months of (on and off) development, I'm glad to announce niri v26.04! It comes packed with features:

- window blur, of course, in all its variations
- mouse cursor in window screencasts
- screencast IPC
- optional includes
- IME users can finally rename files in nautilus
- Eee PC users can finally take screenshots

Enjoy the release notes: https://github.com/niri-wm/niri/releases/tag/v26.04

#niri #wayland #rust

A wild xdagiz appeared and corrected a constant in Smithay's ...

2026-04-20T18:19:39Z

In reply to nevent1q…l8gg
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A wild xdagiz appeared and corrected a constant in Smithay's GL code, fixing screenshots on older Intel laptops! Here's a screenshot from my ASUS Eee PC to prove it.

https://github.com/Smithay/smithay/pull/2002

#niri #smithay

After an additional round of fixes, cleanups and huge commit ...

2026-04-15T11:44:48Z

In reply to nevent1q…5quc
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After an additional round of fixes, cleanups and huge commit splitting, I just merged The Blur Pull Request to niri main!

https://niri-wm.github.io/niri/Window-Effects.html

Now I want to see screenshots that put Tahoe to shame

#niri

Bad Apple but it's an ext-background-effect blur region ...

2026-04-09T15:33:12Z

In reply to nevent1q…vvp9
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Bad Apple but it's an ext-background-effect blur region

#wayland #niri

Updates on window blur in niri! 1. The reason it's not done ...

2026-04-05T16:26:05Z

In reply to nevent1q…s45w
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Updates on window blur in niri!

1. The reason it's not done yet is I'm very busy with uni. Barely any time for my other projects.

2. I implemented ext-background-effect for popups, fixed some edge cases and did some necessary refactors. A few more fixes left before merge.

3. Meanwhile, various projects are adding ext-background-effect support. For example, DankMaterialShell's git version with quickshell-git already does blur out of the box.

#niri

perhaps having separate categories for LLMs allowed vs. banned ...

2026-03-09T12:47:55Z

In reply to nevent1q…f8ew
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perhaps having separate categories for LLMs allowed vs. banned would help with 90% of this problem? So ppl who want to use LLM can do so at their pleasure, and only ppl who actively want to cheat (hopefully very few) will try to use LLM in the banned category.

btw we now have an artwork repo in the niri-wm org, and today ...

2026-02-22T19:55:11Z

In reply to nevent1q…znpg
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btw we now have an artwork repo in the niri-wm org, and today Duncan Rose submitted two absolute FIRE wallpapers they created in Blender. Check out "pool" and "cut" in the wallpapers folder: https://github.com/niri-wm/artwork

("pool" was inspired by one the Microsoft Ethereal wallpapers: https://microsoft.design/wallpapers/)

#niri

Alright, I've finished most of the things that I wanted to ...

2026-02-21T11:19:03Z

In reply to nevent1q…te8w
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Alright, I've finished most of the things that I wanted to finish, so I created a pull request for background blur in niri: https://github.com/niri-wm/niri/pull/3483

Please give it a good test and tell me if anything's broken!

#niri

niri has reached 20k stars on GitHub! :apartyblobcat: ...

2026-02-19T16:21:26Z

In reply to nevent1q…8cvt
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niri has reached 20k stars on GitHub! :apartyblobcat: :apartyblobcat:

pretty wild tbh

thanks everyone for support! :ablobcatheartsqueeze:

#niri

I've now implemented proper full region support for ...

2026-02-13T07:33:38Z

In reply to nevent1q…j2ce
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I've now implemented proper full region support for ext-background-effect and kde-blur protocols. Clients can use this to shape blur to their rounded corners for example.

Here's the Vicinae launcher [1] that added ext-background-effect support in their last release, with rounded corners and background blur on niri with no extra configuration.

[1]: https://github.com/vicinaehq/vicinae

#niri

One of the students in our lab just spent an hour trying to ...

2026-02-10T18:35:37Z

One of the students in our lab just spent an hour trying to figure out why a new member's LDAP account wasn't working in our GitLab. Turns out that in a recent update, usernames starting with "ai_" stopped working because... they are "reserved for GitLab AI entities"

Note that closing a window in the middle of the opening animation ...

2026-02-09T06:42:32Z

In reply to nevent1q…fqem
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Note that closing a window in the middle of the opening animation takes that exact frame of the opening animation and runs the closing animation using that frame, and blocking out works correctly through all these layers of offscreening and snapshotting

(the passwords thing here is intentionally on the Background ...

2026-02-09T06:41:23Z

In reply to nevent1q…kmlq
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(the passwords thing here is intentionally on the Background layer, so it's included in the xray blur contents)

Niri can block out windows from screencasts. This must work with ...

2026-02-09T06:27:44Z

In reply to nevent1q…n8h5
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Niri can block out windows from screencasts. This must work with all other niri features, including background blur. When the window itself is blocked out that's easy, but what if something in the background layer is blocked out?

Certainly turned out to be one of the trickiest pieces of logic to properly support this. Especially the window closing animation which renders a snapshot of the last visible window contents.

#niri

I moved the niri repo from my personal GitHub to a new org: ...

2026-02-08T07:23:22Z

In reply to nevent1q…w0hx
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I moved the niri repo from my personal GitHub to a new org: https://github.com/niri-wm/niri

I set up a redirect for GitHub Pages, so hopefully all old links keep working

The primary reason to move to an org is giving granular repo permissions, e.g. let Semper triage and manage issues (who's been doing a fantastic work helping with issues, thanks a ton!). This is unfortunately only possible in organizations and not in personal repos

We'll also add more related repos like awesome-niri to the org

#niri

Today: implemented (a limited but useful subset of) both ...

2026-02-07T09:23:24Z

In reply to nevent1q…lqeu
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Today: implemented (a limited but useful subset of) both ext-background-effect and org-kde-kwin-blur protocols. Clients use these to request blur on their surfaces without having to configure anything in the compositor. These protocols also allow clients to blur only parts of their surfaces, for example here excluding client-side decoration bars and shadows.

Here are three terminals all with their org-kde-kwin-blur setting enabled.

#niri

Today, got xray working on the closing window animations. The ...

2026-02-06T14:15:49Z

In reply to nevent1q…l77w
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Today, got xray working on the closing window animations. The reason this needs special treatment is that when a window closes, niri renders a snapshot of its last visible contents to use for the animation. This happens outside the normal rendering path so I needed to thread through the xray background rendering logic as well as the correct window coordinates (since the xray background needs to know where the window is to draw the correct thing).

#niri

you know it's serious when you have to pull out a notebook to ...

2026-02-05T10:01:25Z

In reply to nevent1q…78wx
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you know it's serious when you have to pull out a notebook to figure out the coordinate transforms

#niri

Alright, getting somewhere! I think I've figured out a good ...

2026-02-05T09:14:08Z

In reply to nevent1q…m7y6
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Alright, getting somewhere! I think I've figured out a good code structure for the xray blur. It now correctly works even inside offscreens (opening animation, and when you drag a window targeting the tiling layout), and it should also work properly with the upcoming screen magnifier (that we have in pull requests).

Still not a single blur re-render in this entire video!

#niri

Added non-xray blur, based on ...

2026-02-04T08:14:16Z

In reply to nevent1q…7c0r
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Added non-xray blur, based on [@drakulix](https://social.dreampi.es/@drakulix )'s Smithay/COSMIC implementation.

Keep in mind this blur work is still extremely WIP and with many issues (some visible on the video). It's also still not entirely clear to me how to best structure the code around it in niri. We'll see

#niri

So yeah, I'm working on blur for niri. I'm doing ...

2026-01-31T11:28:41Z

In reply to nevent1q…md2q
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So yeah, I'm working on blur for niri. I'm doing "xray blur" first where the idea is that you only include background surfaces, so you pretty much never have to redo the blur—next to zero perf impact unless you have a video wallpaper or smth.

Turns out that it's quite tricky to do well, especially with our Overview. I'm like on my third refactor attempt now but I think I've got a good approach.

During this video there's no reblurring whatsoever, all just drawing cached static textures.

#niri

working on my new visual style #niri ...

2026-01-30T08:46:30Z

In reply to nevent1q…jrh3
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working on my new visual style

#niri

Also added niri msg action stop-cast to force-stop a PipeWire ...

2026-01-15T12:00:16Z

In reply to nevent1q…zdgv
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Also added niri msg action stop-cast to force-stop a PipeWire screencast

#niri

The screencast IPC is now merged: ...

2026-01-15T06:03:02Z

In reply to nevent1q…crv2
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The screencast IPC is now merged: https://yalter.github.io/niri/niri_ipc/struct.Cast.html

#niri

Oh right, for PipeWire I can send the node ID, which DMS can then ...

2026-01-14T15:14:08Z

In reply to nevent1q…wf2v
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Oh right, for PipeWire I can send the node ID, which DMS can then use to fetch the consumer application name!

#niri

Working on a screencast IPC for niri. The idea is to give info to ...

2026-01-14T11:33:15Z

In reply to nevent1q…9ah2
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Working on a screencast IPC for niri. The idea is to give info to desktop bars to be able to add a screencast indicator whenever something is recording the screen.

Got it hooked up for both PipeWire (obviously) and wlr-screencopy. For the latter there's no good way to tell if something is a screencast so I went with some heuristics.

Here's the icon working on the DMS bar, as well as a popup with the full available info I made for debugging. :blobcat:

#niri

Merged another long time overdue niri PR: mouse cursor via ...

2026-01-11T17:59:40Z

In reply to nevent1q…xnpx
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Merged another long time overdue niri PR: mouse cursor via metadata in PipeWire screencasts (lets you toggle Show Cursor on/off in OBS), and full mouse cursor support in window casts.

The cursor is visible only when the window is receiving mouse events—if you're moving the mouse on top of something else covering the target window, the cursor won't be (unintentionally) painted.

Thanks Abílio Costa (npub1znw…3tat) for driving this, including debugging a memory bug in PW!

#niri

niri can now include the mouse pointer on window screenshots, a ...

2026-01-07T05:47:52Z

In reply to nevent1q…ugef
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niri can now include the mouse pointer on window screenshots, a feature that had several more edge cases than I thought before starting to work on it (and it's likely not the ones you think, those ones were easy)

#niri

Turns out GNOME Shell has the same problem: ...

2026-01-05T05:27:59Z

In reply to nevent1q…pjqa
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Turns out GNOME Shell has the same problem: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/6565

I also wrote it down in a more detailed form on the niri issues for future reference: https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/issues/3201

Is there any good way of moving a process into a systemd ...

2026-01-04T20:35:16Z

In reply to nevent1q…h0dm
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Is there any good way of moving a process into a systemd StartTransientScope together with its children?

In niri we put spawned processes into scopes, so oomd and other stuff can work properly. Usually you do it by putting yourself into a scope, then exec-ing the target program. But that's a 7 ms toll on startup time, so in niri we spawn the program right away, and then put it into a scope. However, if the program forks fast enough, that child doesn't go into the scope..

#niri #linux #systemd

Looking for ideas on how to go about translating niri (the ...

2025-12-29T06:27:06Z

In reply to nevent1q…kn38
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Looking for ideas on how to go about translating niri (the binary, and the wiki). If you have experience doing this with other FOSS projects, please share:

https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/discussions/3135

#niri

i'm reviving the PR integrating Tracy GPU profiling into ...

2025-12-28T11:22:51Z

In reply to nevent1q…eq9d
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i'm reviving the PR integrating Tracy GPU profiling into Smithay. Here are two test captures from niri: one for normal + screencast rendering, one for iGPU + dGPU monitor rendering

#niri

biblically accurate window management #niri ...

2025-12-25T11:53:11Z

In reply to nevent1q…ndd8
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biblically accurate window management

#niri

Finished the push-based rendering refactor, made a write-up here ...

2025-12-25T07:42:05Z

In reply to nevent1q…qd9l
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Finished the push-based rendering refactor, made a write-up here for the curious: https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/pull/3113

It even ended up with a negative delta (+762 -780) which is always a W.

Btw I ran the comparison on my Eee PC and there the difference is even more extreme, like 8x faster rendering list construction (which is once again only a part of the total rendering time, and notably doesn't include actual rendering, but still nice).

#niri

Experimenting with a restructure of the niri rendering code to ...

2025-12-23T06:58:53Z

In reply to nevent1q…2wp6
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Experimenting with a restructure of the niri rendering code to uncurse it somewhat by getting rid of all complex impl Iterator chains and lifetimes, which also lets me remove some intermediate small Vecs. In essence, going from pull to push iteration.

I'm surprised that the result is consistently 2-3x faster than before. Wonder if it's the Vecs, or if inverting (massive) codegen'd iterators into a normal call stack passing a closure arg, providing the main benefit

#niri

on niri-git, the nautilus rename popup now works properly with ...

2025-12-20T13:48:58Z

In reply to nevent1q…4fcw
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on niri-git, the nautilus rename popup now works properly with IMEs running

(and generally popups with text fields should work now)

#niri

i added the pointer warping thing from blender to when you drag ...

2025-12-20T08:05:12Z

In reply to nevent1q…zac5
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i added the pointer warping thing from blender to when you drag the view around in niri with the mouse

hf with this new way to pass time during boring meetings

(on a more serious note this helps when you need to scroll further than the edge of your monitor allows)

also unrelated: merged optional config includes earlier today

#niri

yuxqiu just improved the default GPU detection logic in Smithay, ...

2025-12-18T15:12:48Z

In reply to nevent1q…9e35
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yuxqiu just improved the default GPU detection logic in Smithay, so niri-git now works out of the box on Asahi and Pinephone devices, without having to manually configure render-drm-device!

#niri

I've had one of those sessions today where I worked with a ...

2025-12-09T21:06:11Z

In reply to nevent1q…9rlr
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I've had one of those sessions today where I worked with a ton of random windows on a long workspace, while preparing slides for a uni scientific presentation. All kinds of various PDFs, file managers, InkScape, GIMP and so on.

Horizontal mouse headerbar drag to scroll the view was a lifesaver. Definitely a good choice adding this. Along with scrolling the view on DnD near the screen edge. Going through the overview, or always through the keyboard, would be very annoying.

#niri

funny how while working on alt-tab i discovered that mouse ...

2025-12-07T18:36:07Z

In reply to nevent1q…0402
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funny how while working on alt-tab i discovered that mouse scrolling on top of the DMS bar switches workspaces, which completely replaced any need i had for alt-tab, so i ended up never using it

this DMS bar scrolling feature also removed one of my main usecases for the overview

and then the new horizontal window drag gesture removed my other main usecase for the overview, so now i'm opening the overview quite rarely too

(both have their uses; just curious to watch my own habits shift)

#niri

i parse qua (the quaver format) for which i (several years ...

2025-12-07T16:36:07Z

In reply to nevent1q…3qwg
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i parse qua (the quaver format) for which i (several years earlier) wrote most of the SV parts of the converter from osz (which is built into quaver)

over the past few days i was exploring how terminal apps work ...

2025-12-07T12:03:42Z

over the past few days i was exploring how terminal apps work (yes it's as bad as they say) to realize an idea i've had a while ago: a terminal ui for plitki, my vsrg engine. likely not the first term vsrg, but nevertheless my own.

how bad would it be, quantized to the terminal grid? surprisingly, with the right block characters, not too bad.

ofc being plitki, there's full support for all kinds of SV

4K SV: https://youtu.be/GzLHJjB-zAU
7K LN: https://youtu.be/dFpWJRPD5ZA

https://github.com/YaLTeR/plitki

Congrats sternenseemann on the nixpkgs niri any% WR at 3 h 20 min ...

2025-11-29T13:34:56Z

In reply to nevent1q…n8kr
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Congrats sternenseemann on the nixpkgs niri any% WR at 3 h 20 min

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/466213

#niri

Today I'm releasing niri v25.11 with long-awaited config ...

2025-11-29T10:22:15Z

In reply to nevent1q…4gga
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Today I'm releasing niri v25.11 with long-awaited config includes, Alt-Tab, true maximize, custom modes, and a bunch of other improvements! :ablobcatbongo: :ablobcatbongo: Enjoy the release notes :)

https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/releases/tag/v25.11

#niri #smithay #wayland #rust

DankMaterialShell folks set up builds for Debian, Ubuntu and ...

2025-11-26T10:36:08Z

In reply to nevent1q…948u
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DankMaterialShell folks set up builds for Debian, Ubuntu and OpenSUSE, so now it's super easy to try niri & DMS on those systems.

I added Ubuntu commands to the niri quick start guide: https://yalter.github.io/niri/Getting-Started.html

Debian and OpenSUSE here: https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/home:AvengeMedia:danklinux

#niri

I finished and merged the horizontal drag interaction tweak from ...

2025-11-23T07:10:55Z

In reply to nevent1q…j5wt
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I finished and merged the horizontal drag interaction tweak from a previous post. It's very handy but can also be annoying when you want to move windows across monitors, so on mouse I restricted it to headerbar dragging (so, not Mod+LMB and not in the overview).

On touch however, it works for both headerbar dragging, and for Mod+Touch, so you can now easily scroll the view around.

I also added the thing where you can touch with another finger to switch between floating and tiling.

#niri

Took some fighting but I think I've managed to teach the new ...

2025-11-22T08:58:05Z

In reply to nevent1q…mfm3
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Took some fighting but I think I've managed to teach the new Alt-Tab to speak to the screen reader

#niri

Did some work on the TTY backend in niri over the past few days. ...

2025-11-21T12:43:51Z

In reply to nevent1q…ykax
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Did some work on the TTY backend in niri over the past few days. Merged PR for DisplayLink dock support, added "panel orientation" property read, and, based on cosmic-comp code, implemented the necessary logic to avoid screen blanking. Finally, both at niri startup and when switching TTYs, your screen won't flicker, as long as resolution/refresh rate stay the same.

Even when the screen does blank, it'll go faster, as there's now just one modeset instead of two (clear then draw frame).

#niri

Just merged Alt-Tab to main, shortly arriving at your nearest ...

2025-11-16T20:02:52Z

In reply to nevent1q…32st
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Just merged Alt-Tab to main, shortly arriving at your nearest niri-git. Comes with plenty of ways to tweak it if you want [1], and a focus timestamp in the IPC [2] that lets shell devs make their own recent windows switchers.

[1]: https://yalter.github.io/niri/Configuration%3A-Recent-Windows.html
[2]: https://yalter.github.io/niri/niri_ipc/struct.Window.html#structfield.focus_timestamp

#niri

We've hit 15k stars on the niri repo!! :ablobcatheartsqueeze: ...

2025-11-15T15:04:58Z

In reply to nevent1q…sh5u
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We've hit 15k stars on the niri repo!! :ablobcatheartsqueeze: :ablobcatheartsqueeze:

#niri

Currently in the middle of finishing up the Alt-Tab PR for niri: ...

2025-11-13T08:22:35Z

In reply to nevent1q…nzxr
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Currently in the middle of finishing up the Alt-Tab PR for niri: https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/pull/1704

Got most things working as I'd like, though still plenty of fixes and clean-ups left. Fully live window previews with block-out-from support and fading title labels.

There's some interesting design differences compared to other desktops: on niri I expect it's common to have multiple terminals open, so Alt-Tab must go by windows (not by apps) and must show previews big enough to pick the right one.

#niri

Added a small "Quick Start" to the niri docs that gets ...

2025-11-10T20:04:53Z

In reply to nevent1q…p39p
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Added a small "Quick Start" to the niri docs that gets you going with niri + DMS in three commands:

https://yalter.github.io/niri/Getting-Started.html#quick-start

Tested the Fedora ones on a fresh VM, worked out nicely, getting me into a session with a very functional desktop shell.

#niri

Is there a Firefox hotkey that reliably focuses the address bar ...

2025-11-10T05:26:39Z

Is there a Firefox hotkey that reliably focuses the address bar in one press?

- F6 focuses frames on some pages before the address bar
- Alt+D doesn't work occasionally

Also, experimenting with this interaction tweak on a branch: what ...

2025-10-31T09:27:09Z

In reply to nevent1q…upy7
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Also, experimenting with this interaction tweak on a branch: what if dragging tiled windows horizontally scrolled the view instead of dragging them "out"? This makes it possible to scroll the view mouse-only without going through the Overview (the zooming gets quite tiring when it's frequent), and makes it possible to scroll the view touch-only. To drag the window out of the layout, you can still drag it downward.

#niri

Small change on niri-git for people using the foot terminal with ...

2025-10-31T09:15:48Z

In reply to nevent1q…hr2f
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Small change on niri-git for people using the foot terminal with CSD, or other apps that constrain their sizes to a grid: niri will now match the default column width to a preset width when a window opens. So opening foot sized "proportion 0.5" and then pressing Mod+R will switch you to the next preset width, even if foot actually opened slightly smaller to match its terminal grid. Before the change, the first Mod+R would pick the same "proportion 0.5" in this case and "do nothing".

#niri

microsoft niri #niri ...

2025-10-23T06:57:23Z

In reply to nevent1q…0ukf
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microsoft niri

#niri

One cool thing I noticed about true maximize is that apps like ...

2025-10-16T14:59:52Z

In reply to nevent1q…meq6
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One cool thing I noticed about true maximize is that apps like GIMP or Inkscape or Blender, that really want all available space, maximize themselves at startup, so you don't have to window-rule them manually in your config

#niri

After a detour to config includes and, again, several days/weeks ...

2025-10-15T06:34:52Z

In reply to nevent1q…zsp8
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After a detour to config includes and, again, several days/weeks of work implementing all edge cases and expected behaviors, true window maximize is ready and merged to main. Tricky cases like: windows requesting fullscreen and maximize after opening; windows failing to match the full maximized size; transparent windows with the niri border behind them.

https://yalter.github.io/niri/Fullscreen-and-Maximize.html

Give it a try! Ngl I mostly switched to maximize just because I'm too lazy to reach the keyboard for Mod+F.

#niri

I merged config includes, along with per-output and per-workspace ...

2025-10-02T07:38:05Z

In reply to nevent1q…rm8k
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I merged config includes, along with per-output and per-workspace layout config overrides. Play around with them at your nearest niri-git package.

- https://yalter.github.io/niri/Configuration%3A-Include.html
- https://yalter.github.io/niri/Configuration%3A-Outputs.html#layout-config-overrides
- https://yalter.github.io/niri/Configuration%3A-Named-Workspaces.html#layout-config-overrides

Also merged ignore-drm-device which should let you passthrough a GPU to VMs: https://yalter.github.io/niri/Configuration%3A-Debug-Options.html#ignore-drm-device

#niri

After several more days of work, I fully finished config ...

2025-09-30T08:21:25Z

In reply to nevent1q…cfqr
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After several more days of work, I fully finished config includes. All config sections merge together, live-reloading watches all included files (even if they fail to parse), error messages work across files, documentation is written.

https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/pull/2482

Once again, this needs testing! There must be NO breakage to existing configs, so if something breaks, I want to know about it to fix it.

#niri

Our config system is declarative, rather than command-like, which ...

2025-09-26T19:16:47Z

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Our config system is declarative, rather than command-like, which means that we parse the config into a tree of data types instead of reading lines and applying them one-by-one. This design requires a lot of work to properly support includes, but in turn we get atomic and selective reloading (if output part of the config didn't change, we don't override your transient output adjustments), better error messages and no problems with things like "spawn-at-startup" that should only work once.

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There's been a long-standing request to add config includes ...

2025-09-26T19:10:54Z

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There's been a long-standing request to add config includes to niri. They're useful for config organization, but also for custom desktop shells to be able to change colors without having to edit the main user's config.

Today I finished the first step towards this: a many-days-long refactor that makes the main config part, layout, mergeable, i.e., able to be combined from multiple parts. And building on this, per-output/workspace overrides.

https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/pull/2449

Testing wanted here!

#niri

My Smithay refactors were merged: the big one mentioned above, ...

2025-09-17T19:31:25Z

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My Smithay refactors were merged: the big one mentioned above, plus a fix for popup stacking order (e.g. open popup, then open tooltip also from the toplevel itself), plus a fix for root popup grabs from Qt layer-shell surfaces. All of this along with fullscreen refactors and animations is now merged to niri main. (maximize is still wip)

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With the fullscreen refactors in place, I got started on the ...

2025-09-12T13:36:15Z

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With the fullscreen refactors in place, I got started on the thing that I wanted to do all along: maximize.

Niri didn't support normal Wayland maximize because it's very similar (yet slightly different) to our full-width columns—and can't be bound to our full-width state either. However, after plenty of requests, and thinking about it, I reconsidered. Henceforth, the maximize buttons and double-clicking on the titlebars will do the expected thing.

Details in PR: https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/pull/2376

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Fullscreen refactor pt. 3 turned out to be a refactor of a good ...

2025-09-07T19:33:00Z

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Fullscreen refactor pt. 3 turned out to be a refactor of a good chunk of core Smithay xdg-shell/layer-shell/session-lock logic, making it more correct. The fullscreen PR in niri now includes that Smithay refactor, and needs testing even more than before :blobmiou:

https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/pull/2333#issuecomment-3263990200

Specifically, the refactor makes Smithay correctly track the last acked configure for each commit, also enforces the "must ack before committing first buffer" protocol rule.

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Fullscreen refactor pt. 2: added un/fullscreen animations. This ...

2025-09-04T10:46:55Z

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Fullscreen refactor pt. 2: added un/fullscreen animations. This one involved quite a lot of moving parts actually, so looking for testing.

https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/pull/2333

#niri

Fullscreen refactor pt. 1: track pending vs. current fullscreen ...

2025-09-04T10:44:32Z

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Fullscreen refactor pt. 1: track pending vs. current fullscreen state for columns, avoid vertical jump when waiting for window to commit a new buffer.

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Screen reader announcement demo bc apparently you can't ...

2025-08-30T14:12:35Z

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Screen reader announcement demo bc apparently you can't attach video and image at once

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niri v25.08 is now released with a logo, xwayland-satellite ...

2025-08-30T14:11:38Z

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niri v25.08 is now released with a logo, xwayland-satellite integration, basic screen reader support, NVIDIA screencast flickering fix, window positions and sizes in IPC, and many other improvements! :ablobcatbongo:

Read the notes here: https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/releases/tag/v25.08

now i need at least a month off from any release notes preparation 😴

#niri #smithay #wayland #rust

Implemented basic AccessKit integration for niri based on ...

2025-08-23T08:24:46Z

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Implemented basic AccessKit integration for niri based on Arnold Loubriat (npub1p62…n8wg)'s proof-of-concept. I have little experience with screen readers, and also had several questions, so I would appreciate more eyes and testing on the PR:

https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/pull/2273

#niri #a11y

Rearranged and expanded quite a bit the design principles page on ...

2025-08-22T16:43:01Z

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Rearranged and expanded quite a bit the design principles page on the wiki: https://yalter.github.io/niri/Development%3A-Design-Principles.html

Give it a read if you're curious about my thinking process about various niri behaviors and such

#niri

longing for the day when computers are advanced enough to handle ...

2025-08-21T13:49:39Z

longing for the day when computers are advanced enough to handle 65k bytes of plaintext

With massive thanks to cutenice, we have a new wiki site!!! With ...

2025-08-17T14:44:17Z

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With massive thanks to cutenice, we have a new wiki site!!! With good search! :ablobcatbongo:

https://yalter.github.io/niri/

Make sure not to miss the new Since: annotations :blobcat:

The site uses Material for mkdocs, and we retained full compatibility with GitHub Wiki, meaning all existing links keep working.

Also thanks everyone for several suggestions and test wikis in the GitHub discussion!

#niri

Merged the "window positions and sizes in IPC" PR. Please ...

2025-08-16T09:02:11Z

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Merged the "window positions and sizes in IPC" PR. Please test and report if anything's broken or missing, we have time to fix it until the next release.

https://yalter.github.io/niri/niri_ipc/struct.Window.html#structfield.layout

Here's a quick quickshell test I threw together that draws floating windows as rectangles.

Thanks yrkv for getting the PR mostly complete!

https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/pull/1265

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Yesterday dove into one of the older animation jank bugs in niri: ...

2025-08-14T13:21:32Z

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Yesterday dove into one of the older animation jank bugs in niri: quickly resizing a window back and forth would cause adjacent windows to jump. This problem is hard to trigger unless you're specifically trying to (then it's easy), but it was causing "downstream" problems for more complex actions.

The fix was simple enough, but I imagined enough "interesting" cases around it and decided to write a whole bulk of tests. Check this out, all thanks to our layout and clock code!

#niri

today niri turns 2! #niri ...

2025-08-10T06:31:40Z

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today niri turns 2!

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Quite comprehensive desktop shell for niri released today: ...

2025-08-05T18:33:26Z

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Quite comprehensive desktop shell for niri released today: https://github.com/bbedward/DankMaterialShell

Based on QuickShell; made by the same people who started the niri Discord server.

Checking it out now, looks very cool! Though not without a few rough edges to iron out of course

#niri #quickshell

Finally finished making niri screencasts asynchronously wait for ...

2025-08-04T15:24:42Z

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Finally finished making niri screencasts asynchronously wait for rendering completion before handing the buffer over to PipeWire. This fixes screencast flickering problems on NVIDIA setups.

https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/pull/2175

This is not PW explicit sync; I can now finish that too (OBS and PW released their fixes), but it'll act more as an optimization on top of the current code (since only OBS can use it for now, and not on its Flathub build (PW is too old there)).

#niri

We made it to 10k stars on GitHub!!!! :apartyblobcat: ...

2025-07-31T09:12:18Z

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We made it to 10k stars on GitHub!!!! :apartyblobcat: :apartyblobcat: :apartyblobcat:

#niri

About finished implementing org.fd.a11y.KeyboardMonitor in niri, ...

2025-07-27T12:56:29Z

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About finished implementing org.fd.a11y.KeyboardMonitor in niri, necessary for correct screen reader function:

https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/pull/2060

I tested it with Orca more or less, seems to work, but I'm very new to screen reader workings, so it's possible I've missed something.

This makes Orca announce keys everywhere in niri, and makes grabs work (both modifier with double-press passthrough and keystrokes). Making Orca actually say niri dialogs will be a separate effort.

#niri #a11y

Gathering thoughts on reconciling communities between Matrix and ...

2025-07-17T15:10:39Z

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Gathering thoughts on reconciling communities between Matrix and Discord: https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/discussions/2069

This is a problem I expect we'll face reasonably soon, so if you have some ideas please write in the discussion!

#niri

Today I implemented fetching keyboard layout options from ...

2025-07-15T21:04:02Z

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Today I implemented fetching keyboard layout options from org.freedesktop.locale1, used by things like distro installers to configure the layout:

https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/pull/2052

I guess this is the closest thing to global cross-desktop keyboard layout configuration, so it should also help environments like LXQt integrating niri.

Also recently merged: niri now sets a logind session locked hint, useful for e.g. idle tools that put the PC to sleep, but only once the lockscreen is fully up.

#niri

Should've done this a while ago, but I finally wrote ...

2025-07-14T09:25:46Z

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Should've done this a while ago, but I finally wrote contributing guidelines for niri:

https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md

With many new users, the stream of issues, discussions and pull requests is quite overwhelming. 😅 You can help! And the contributing guidelines outline the various ways how.

I would especially appreciate help reviewing PRs, though I understand it's the more complex task out of these.

Big thanks to people already answering questions and helping others! :ablobcatheartsqueeze:

#niri

Out of curiosity, I tried running Orca on niri, and apparently it ...

2025-06-25T06:48:29Z

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Out of curiosity, I tried running Orca on niri, and apparently it sort-of works for some apps (I expected nothing to work at all; idk anything about screen readers). However, compared to GNOME Shell, there's quite a few missing or broken things. I documented what I found here: https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/issues/1904

Is there some "Integrating Orca to Wayland desktops" docs? Like, what the compositor needs to do, who handles the hotkeys and how, etc.

(not actively working on this, just curious)

#niri #a11y

Update on ext-workspace: - sfwbar fixed all outstanding issues! - ...

2025-06-21T14:07:57Z

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Update on ext-workspace:
- sfwbar fixed all outstanding issues!
- the waybar ext-workspace PR also fixed all issues!
- quickshell impl is on the way

#niri

thanks! Definitely some food for thought here, especially around ...

2025-06-18T13:19:10Z

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thanks! Definitely some food for thought here, especially around the "sole maintainer" parts—since I'm not at the bigger open-source project stage yet

Everyone who dislikes GitHub Wiki: I finally made a write-down of ...

2025-06-17T16:29:14Z

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Everyone who dislikes GitHub Wiki: I finally made a write-down of my requirements/wishes for a replacement. Please feel free to chime in with suggestions: https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/discussions/1830

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heh, relatable. i need to figure out how to find people to ...

2025-06-17T10:51:38Z

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heh, relatable. i need to figure out how to find people to unboard

question for free software maintainers how do you go on ...

2025-06-17T06:49:44Z

question for free software maintainers

how do you go on holidays?? I'm at the point where I get 20-25 GitHub emails per day (issues, PRs, discussions, replies). I'm scared to think what I will come back to if I leave for a week or two

Today I implemented most of the ext-workspace protocol [1] in ...

2025-06-14T14:10:32Z

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Today I implemented most of the ext-workspace protocol [1] in niri. It lets desktop components (i.e. bars) show workspaces and do some basic operations on them.

The two bars with ext-workspace that I know of are sfwbar and xfce4-panel. Unfortunately, I seem to have surfaced several problems in their implementations. I opened issues in sfwbar; would be great if someone took a look from Xfce. Also if there are other clients I missed?

https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/pull/1800

[1]: https://wayland.app/protocols/ext-workspace-v1

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apparently niri is on the GH trending page today: ...

2025-06-13T15:21:28Z

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apparently niri is on the GH trending page today: https://github.com/trending Amidst a sea of LLM repos 🙃

#niri

...and now moving also works with on a touchscreen with a second ...

2025-06-12T18:23:45Z

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...and now moving also works with on a touchscreen with a second touch :) Got this idea from how in osu! you can drag with one finger and press with second/third to "click".

#niri

In niri v25.05, the screenshot UI learned to respond to some ...

2025-06-12T12:56:43Z

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In niri v25.05, the screenshot UI learned to respond to some keyboard window movement bindings by moving the screenshot selection. Now it supports several more movement commands, including moving across monitors. It works similarly to a floating window: the selection origin is preserved relatively, and the size is adjusted by the monitor scale difference. Under the right conditions, it'll match a floating window exactly.

Also, holding Space will now let you move the selection origin!

#niri

8k stars! 🎉 #niri ...

2025-06-10T18:51:35Z

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8k stars! 🎉

#niri

Alright after some much needed rest, I set out to deal with the ...

2025-06-04T10:13:41Z

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Alright after some much needed rest, I set out to deal with the thing everyone has to bump into when setting up niri: some way to use Xwayland. I am still very much *not* planning to integrate Xwayland directly, but with this PR (and an accompanying xwayland-satellite PR), niri will create the X11 sockets and autostart xwl-s on demand, all out of the box with zero configuration. So, it'll work just like other compositors, but with xwl-s instead of direct Xwayland.

https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/pull/1728

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Tagged a niri v25.05.1 hotfix, fixing kitty quick access ...

2025-05-25T07:01:35Z

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Tagged a niri v25.05.1 hotfix, fixing kitty quick access terminal, numlock, and some jank with hidden cursor.

https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/releases/tag/v25.05.1

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After long 3 months of work, I'm glad to release niri v25.05 ...

2025-05-17T13:37:47Z

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After long 3 months of work, I'm glad to release niri v25.05 with the Overview, screenshot UI tablet and touch support, dynamic screencast target and windowed fullscreen, IPC pick-window and pick-color, window urgency, and lots of other things! :ablobcatbongo: :apartyblobcat:

Release notes prepared for your reading pleasure as always: https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/releases/tag/v25.05

#niri #smithay #rust #wayland

Today, screenshot UI updates! Implemented tablet and touchscreen ...

2025-05-09T12:56:46Z

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Today, screenshot UI updates! Implemented tablet and touchscreen input for area selection (at long last). And, added a small clickable capture button, so screenshots can now be confirmed tablet-, touch-, or mouse-only!

#niri