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   Trash Panda (raccoon@hollow.raccoon.quest)'s status on Tuesday, 27-May-2025 01:13:30 JST Trash Panda

   Who uses niri as a window manager? I'm struggling with some stuff.

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     snacks (snacks@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 27-May-2025 01:13:28 JST snacks

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     @snacks@netzsphaere.xyz @mia@shrimptest.0x0.st @fiore@brain.worm.pink
     Fiore tried to help me but failed

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     snacks (snacks@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 27-May-2025 01:23:56 JST snacks

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     @raccoon @sodiboo do you have swaybg installed? I'd assime it uses that for wallpapers by default
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     Trash Panda (raccoon@hollow.raccoon.quest)'s status on Tuesday, 27-May-2025 01:23:57 JST Trash Panda

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     @sodiboo@gaysex.cloud
     Can't figure out how to set the wallpaper, also waybar looks fucky.
     I will share a few links
     
     https://pastebin.com/k6VwgrB3
     https://pastebin.com/eLDujjVH
     
     And the picture attached is how it looks, see the icons top left and top right looking squished?

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     sodiboo (sodiboo@gaysex.cloud)'s status on Tuesday, 27-May-2025 01:23:58 JST sodiboo

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     @raccoon@hollow.raccoon.quest I like using niri :neocat_floof_cute:
     
     whatcha struggling with

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     snacks (snacks@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 27-May-2025 01:25:21 JST snacks

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     @raccoon @sodiboo oh, just put the command in your config, rhat's how you're supposed to use swabg
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     @snacks@netzsphaere.xyz @sodiboo@gaysex.cloud
     I do, and I can use a command to set a wallpaper, it doesn't stay after shutdown though

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     sodiboo (sodiboo@gaysex.cloud)'s status on Tuesday, 27-May-2025 01:26:01 JST sodiboo

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     @snacks@netzsphaere.xyz @raccoon@hollow.raccoon.quest something like this yeah.
     
     niri has no built in support for wallpapers that aren't solid color. so if you want an image, run something like swaybg.

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     snacks (snacks@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 27-May-2025 01:27:14 JST snacks

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     @raccoon @sodiboo yes
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     @snacks@netzsphaere.xyz @sodiboo@gaysex.cloud
     Literally go to the bottom of the niri config? No additional thing needed?

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     snacks (snacks@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 27-May-2025 01:27:39 JST snacks

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     @raccoon @sodiboo maybe prefix it with whatever niri needs to execute a command
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     sodiboo (sodiboo@gaysex.cloud)'s status on Tuesday, 27-May-2025 01:28:01 JST sodiboo

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     @raccoon@hollow.raccoon.quest @snacks@netzsphaere.xyz well yeah. swaybg doesn't "save" anything. it's an "app". if you want it to reopen every launch, put it in a spawn-at-startup node in the config

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     Trash Panda (raccoon@hollow.raccoon.quest)'s status on Tuesday, 27-May-2025 01:28:02 JST Trash Panda

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     @sodiboo@gaysex.cloud @snacks@netzsphaere.xyz
     No when I reboot or shut down my pc

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     sodiboo (sodiboo@gaysex.cloud)'s status on Tuesday, 27-May-2025 01:28:12 JST sodiboo

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     @raccoon@hollow.raccoon.quest @snacks@netzsphaere.xyz shutdown? as in when you close swaybg?

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     sodiboo (sodiboo@gaysex.cloud)'s status on Tuesday, 27-May-2025 01:34:23 JST sodiboo

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     @snacks@netzsphaere.xyz @raccoon@hollow.raccoon.quest something like spawn-at-startup "swaybg" "-i" "/path/to/where/your/wallpaper/is" at the bottom of the config yeah

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     snacks (snacks@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 27-May-2025 01:35:38 JST snacks

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     @raccoon @sodiboo i'm just going off of what i know from sway and i haven't done amy complex waybar setups
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     Trash Panda (raccoon@hollow.raccoon.quest)'s status on Tuesday, 27-May-2025 01:35:39 JST Trash Panda

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     @sodiboo@gaysex.cloud @snacks@netzsphaere.xyz
     Did not work :(
     I did
     spawn-at-startup "command" and logged out and back in, no luck.
     Have you seen the screenshot of waybar I sent before?

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     Trash Panda (raccoon@hollow.raccoon.quest)'s status on Tuesday, 27-May-2025 01:35:44 JST Trash Panda

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     @sodiboo@gaysex.cloud @snacks@netzsphaere.xyz
     
     It workeeeeed

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     Trash Panda (raccoon@hollow.raccoon.quest)'s status on Tuesday, 27-May-2025 01:50:12 JST Trash Panda

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     @sodiboo@gaysex.cloud @snacks@netzsphaere.xyz
     I messed around with things a bit and found a number that works well enough, thank you SO MUCH for your help :)

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     sodiboo (sodiboo@gaysex.cloud)'s status on Tuesday, 27-May-2025 01:50:13 JST sodiboo

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     @raccoon@hollow.raccoon.quest @snacks@netzsphaere.xyz not quite sure. i don't have the correct font installed so it looks like missing symbols for me and i don't feel like installing fonts today. but try increasing the padding? L102 has padding: 0 0.25em;, try like doubling or tripling that?

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     Trash Panda (raccoon@hollow.raccoon.quest)'s status on Tuesday, 27-May-2025 01:50:14 JST Trash Panda

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     @sodiboo@gaysex.cloud @snacks@netzsphaere.xyz
     Do you think something similar is caused on the right side with wifi and battery level?

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     sodiboo (sodiboo@gaysex.cloud)'s status on Tuesday, 27-May-2025 01:50:15 JST sodiboo

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     @raccoon@hollow.raccoon.quest @snacks@netzsphaere.xyz check out the CSS rule for #workspaces button at lines 52-54.
     
     if i comment out either of those (padding or margin), the workspaces module starts looking a whole lot better.

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     sodiboo (sodiboo@gaysex.cloud)'s status on Tuesday, 27-May-2025 01:50:16 JST sodiboo

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     @raccoon@hollow.raccoon.quest @snacks@netzsphaere.xyz i did see the screenshot of waybar yeah. i'm not quite sure what's going wrong there, but it does seem to be more of a css issue than anything related to niri? let me see if i can reproduce

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     sodiboo (sodiboo@gaysex.cloud)'s status on Tuesday, 27-May-2025 01:57:35 JST sodiboo

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     @raccoon@hollow.raccoon.quest @snacks@netzsphaere.xyz heck yeah! you're welcome!

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     φ (fiore@brain.worm.pink)'s status on Tuesday, 27-May-2025 02:52:16 JST φ

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     @raccoon @snacks @sodiboo im sorry for ghosting 😭 im happy u could figure it out !!! send me some screenshots ^^

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     φ (fiore@brain.worm.pink)'s status on Tuesday, 27-May-2025 03:31:29 JST φ

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     @raccoon @snacks @sodiboo big issue here is : niri does NOT ship a working xwayland setup by default . thats a bummer , BUT its veeery easy to fix .

     step 1

     grab a terminal and enable the right copr repo and install the package:

     sudo dnf copr enable ulysg/xwayland-satellite sudo dnf install xwayland-satellite step 2

     you gotta start it up together with niri , you could either do it with a unit file but who cares just slap spawn-at-startup "xwayland-satellite" ":0" in your niri config , log out and log back in

     step 3

     breakpoint !! check if everything is working so far . for example , open a terminal and run env DISPLAY=:0 <application> with whatever graphical application you want , and simply check that it opens up

     step 4

     what comes from here on out has to be rinse and repeated every time u have a x application that isnt running .

     do a echo $XDG_DATA_DIRS . these are directories that contain application data , for example , youll find the usr/local/share dir here .

     every one of these directories , might contain a application subdirectory . thats where , for example , your menu (fuzzel comes by default wit niri ) is gnna look for .desktop files . the main 2 that interest you are /usr/local/share/applications for system packages and /var/lib/flatpak/exports/share/applications for flatpak apps .

     step 5

     check whether $HOME/.local/share is in $XDG_DATA_DIRS . it most likely is , but if it isnt , add a export XDG_DATA_DIRS="$HOME/.local/share:$XDG_DATA_DIRS" to your login shell config file , so either .bashrc , .profile , or whatever setup u have . also , create the directory if it doesnt exist , so mkdir -p $HOME/.local/share/applications

     step 6

     im gonna go on talking about signal but this applies to any app that misbehaves in a similar manner .

     signal is installed through flatpak , so its desktop entry is gonna be in that one /var/lib/flatpak/../applications bullshit dir i told u earlier . grab it and copy it to your users local application directory (the one we created earlier ), so in this specific case cp /var/lib/flatpak/exports/share/applications/org.signal.Signal.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/

     this is because the users desktop entries have higher priority than the systems ones

     step 7

     open up that new file we just copied in nvim , look for the Exec= field .

     to whatever is there , in the very beginning add env DISPLAY=:0 . this is so that the application runs in the display managed by xwayland-satellite (remember ? that was so long ago lol)

     so for signal , that line will look like this :

     Exec=env DISPLAY=:0 /usr/bin/flatpak run --branch=stable --arch=x86_64 --command=signal-desktop --file-forwarding org.signal.Signal @@u %U @@

     note that i did NOT touch anything past setting the env var in the beginning of the command .

     thats it !! pretty easy , huh ?

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     φ (fiore@brain.worm.pink)'s status on Tuesday, 27-May-2025 03:31:30 JST φ

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     @raccoon @snacks @sodiboo ok get ready this is a fun one .

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     Trash Panda (raccoon@hollow.raccoon.quest)'s status on Tuesday, 27-May-2025 03:31:31 JST Trash Panda

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     @fiore@brain.worm.pink @snacks@netzsphaere.xyz @sodiboo@gaysex.cloud
     I will when I'm done and I'm happy with it.
     By the way, I tried installing signal, through flatpak because it's not in the repo. Works fine on xfce, doesn't start on niri, can you try installing it and letting me know how it goes?

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     @fiore @sodiboo @raccoon @snacks @grok is this true?