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   Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Sunday, 23-Nov-2025 16:13:00 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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   microsoft niri

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     Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Sunday, 23-Nov-2025 16:13:00 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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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".

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     Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Sunday, 23-Nov-2025 16:13:00 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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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.

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     Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Sunday, 23-Nov-2025 16:13:00 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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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.

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     Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Sunday, 23-Nov-2025 16:13:00 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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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.

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     Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Sunday, 23-Nov-2025 16:13:00 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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

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     Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Sunday, 23-Nov-2025 16:13:00 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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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

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     Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Sunday, 23-Nov-2025 16:13:01 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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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

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     Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Sunday, 23-Nov-2025 16:13:02 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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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

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     Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Sunday, 23-Nov-2025 16:13:02 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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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.

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     Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Sunday, 23-Nov-2025 16:13:03 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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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!

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     Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Sunday, 23-Nov-2025 16:13:03 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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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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     Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Sunday, 23-Nov-2025 16:13:03 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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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

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     Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Sunday, 23-Nov-2025 16:13:04 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

     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)

     #niri