Niri 0.1.7 Scrollable-Tiling Wayland Compositor Adds Fractional Scaling

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Niri 0.1.7 Scrollable-Tiling Wayland Compositor Adds Fractional Scaling

Niri 0.1.7 is out today as the latest version of this scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor. While the version number may not signify it, Niri 0.1.7 is quite a notable feature update...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Niri-0.1.7-Released

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This one seems to be progressing rather quickly. Has anyone here tried it already and what are your thoughts?

[HEX0]

Been using Niri for a few months with wldash
Before I used Sway for years. I love it.

Initially I thought animations were a gimmick. But now I feel like animations really help for orientation when switching windows and workspaces.

Infinite scrolling is neat and I find myself using very few workspaces with this workflow. Dynamic workspaces are kind of similar to Gnome. Touchpad gestures for switching workspaces is also very comfy.

Niri lacks native Xwayland support. But I am able to play Arma 3, using gamescope with steam flatpak. So no issues there. So gaming is fine without any problems.

If you want to run Xwayland in Niri you have to run a separate compositor inside niri, like Gamescope, Cage, Sway or running Xwayland directly.

There's also this

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/ofourdan/xwayland-run

Currently for me the main downside is lack of possibility to implement non hacky workspace indicator. Niri needs to implement event stream IPC fo that.
Currently people resorted to writing hacky scripts that read command output and print out the results to waybar every second.

https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/discussions/356

Hence I removed waybar and in the meantime using wldash.

It's using Smithay. Which is used by COSMIC DE. I'm glad Rust is getting established in the Wayland ecosystem which is dominated by C and C++, alongside wlroots, gnome and kde.

Overall it feels very light and slick. I have no plans to go back to Sway. Firefox and Alacritty work. Xwayland gamescope gaming works. Soon Gimp3 will be Wayland native and Wine wayland driver is slowly maturing. Hopefully Proton merges Wine Wayland driver soon.

[FluxTape]

I've been using Niri as my main WM for some months now and even contributed some code. To me the only thing that occasionally makes me switch back to Gnome (+PaperWM) is the lack of proper Xwayland support. That may come eventually but afaik it's not very high up on the todo list.

EDIT: xwayland-sattelite seems to solve my remaining xwayland issues

[jaxxed]

I've been happily using it for a few months on both Linux and FreeBSD, with waybar, fuzzel, mako and tessen.
There are only a couple of additional features I'd like out of it, and nothing I'd prefer to have work differently.