Niri Support

[RenanEuzebio]

Niri is a quite unique scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor that has been growing in popularity. I think it would be nice to have it as an alternative for those of us who prefer that type of workflow.

[sebanc]

I would like to generally add support for compositors / window managers, however I am not sure how to do it as they do not generally provide some kind of suggested configuration (with at minimum a desktop bar, systray...) that could be proposed by default. Without such a configuration, most users wanting to try this will only see a grey background and a list of keyboard shortcuts which would result in a bad experience in my opinion.

As such, for now my practice has been to only add support for compositors / window managers when either:

• their default configuration allows a relatively acceptable experience by default (i3).
• or the distribution itself provides a dedicated configuration.

I found a lot of advanced ricing in the compositors / window managers community but I have not yet identified repositories with configurations that could be considered as basic but satisfactory for new users.

If you have in mind such a configuration for Niri, do not hesitate to let me know.

[sebanc]

I forgot to mention it but you can still install Niri with linuxloops by selecting "None" as desktop environment, adding a custom packages list such as "niri alacritty fuzzel mako swaybg swaylock waybar" and then adding niri to your bash profile for automatic startup if needed.

For a more specific installation, you can also add a custom script such as the one included in the below declarative configuration: 04-Arch-Dwm

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