So I’ve been in the WM space for a little while. Started messing around with i3 some years ago, and stuck with the basic config. Same thing for Sway, before I attempted to make my own rice, and then stole the legendary Hyprdots. I remember messing with the dots and trying to change things, and getting frustrated because it obviously was above my knowledge level. I went back to KDE for a little bit, before Brodie made a video and I was curious enough to take the leap. In short, it’s crazy. It may seem odd at first, but the workflow is really hard to come back from. The freedom of space you are afforded makes even the smallest screen hyper productive. I tried going back to stacking layouts after this, but it felt incredibly cramped.

As for Niri itself, it comes with many comfortable features and works seamlessly out of the box in many ways that surprised me. It has a native overview, screenshot tool, most of the media keys were programmed, and even hitting my Laptop’s power button only prompted a suspend instead of the usual instant shutdown.

I’m a simple man, who uses simple tools. My aim in making a rice isn’t something super flashy, but something functional with dots I can build up then use for years with minimal tweaking. Most of my dots are just lightly modified or taken from elsewhere, but that matters little to me. I just want a functional productive, and comfortable environment to work and play. Mostly everything is done via the cli or similarly simple tools, as it helps me learn the system for future career possibilities, as well as provide peak productivity. I don’t know how many will care for my tool list since everyone probably knows these things, but here it is just in case.

Term - Kitty

Shell - Fish

Bar - Waybar

Menu / App Launcher - Fuzzel

Notifications Daemon - Mako

File Manager - Yazi + A boat load of plugins (Can provide list if asked)

System Monitor - Btop

Music Player - MPD + RMPC

Browser - Qutebrowser

Recording Software - wf-recorder

TUI-Wiki - Wikiman

“Notes” - Vim

I plan to revamp it and make better scripts as time goes on, but I am very satisfied for now.

Tldr; Niri fucks and you should play Rockman (Particularly the fan retranslations, the original English localizations are dookie)

I hope you enjoyed the showcase :>

  • juipeltje@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Niri is definitely cool. Unless i missed it before, last time i tried it i don’t think it had the overview feature yet. I went back and updated my config a few days ago, tweaked the animations a bit as well, and was impressed with how sleek that overview looks. I’m still not entirely sure if i’ll ever get used to scrolling though. Recently i also tried maomaowm after i saw someone post about it, which also has a scrolling mode, but what i really liked about that implementation is that they have an option in the config to maximize the window if it’s the only one on the workspace, and then change size to whatever column width you have set when you start opening more windows, similar to other tilers. It makes it much more pleasant to use imo because i get kinda annoyed at pressing an extra keybind everytime i open a single window to maximize it. It’s a small thing but it feels like it makes a pretty big difference to me. Maybe it’s worth opening an issue on github for it (unless niri can already do this and i missed it, if so please let me know lol).

    • Shin@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      2 days ago

      I think Niri has that feature, but maybe I’m wrong. I’ll definitely have to look into MaoMao later, I did not know that it had scrolling. Thanks for the heads up. It seems like more WMs are supporting this nowadays.