Notices by Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)

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today niri turns 2!

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With massive thanks to cutenice, we have a new wiki site!!! With good search! :ablobcatbongo:

https://yalter.github.io/niri/

Make sure not to miss the new Since: annotations :blobcat:

The site uses Material for mkdocs, and we retained full compatibility with GitHub Wiki, meaning all existing links keep working.

Also thanks everyone for several suggestions and test wikis in the GitHub discussion!

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Merged the "window positions and sizes in IPC" PR. Please test and report if anything's broken or missing, we have time to fix it until the next release.

https://yalter.github.io/niri/niri_ipc/struct.Window.html#structfield.layout

Here's a quick quickshell test I threw together that draws floating windows as rectangles.

Thanks yrkv for getting the PR mostly complete!

https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/pull/1265

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Yesterday dove into one of the older animation jank bugs in niri: quickly resizing a window back and forth would cause adjacent windows to jump. This problem is hard to trigger unless you're specifically trying to (then it's easy), but it was causing "downstream" problems for more complex actions.

The fix was simple enough, but I imagined enough "interesting" cases around it and decided to write a whole bulk of tests. Check this out, all thanks to our layout and clock code!

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niri v25.08 is now released with a logo, xwayland-satellite integration, basic screen reader support, NVIDIA screencast flickering fix, window positions and sizes in IPC, and many other improvements! :ablobcatbongo:

Read the notes here: https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/releases/tag/v25.08

now i need at least a month off from any release notes preparation 😴

#niri #smithay #wayland #rust

Implemented basic AccessKit integration for niri based on @DataTriny's proof-of-concept. I have little experience with screen readers, and also had several questions, so I would appreciate more eyes and testing on the PR:

https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/pull/2273

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Rearranged and expanded quite a bit the design principles page on the wiki: https://yalter.github.io/niri/Development%3A-Design-Principles.html

Give it a read if you're curious about my thinking process about various niri behaviors and such

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Fullscreen refactor pt. 1: track pending vs. current fullscreen state for columns, avoid vertical jump when waiting for window to commit a new buffer.

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Screen reader announcement demo bc apparently you can't attach video and image at once

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Fullscreen refactor pt. 2: added un/fullscreen animations. This one involved quite a lot of moving parts actually, so looking for testing.

https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/pull/2333

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Finally finished making niri screencasts asynchronously wait for rendering completion before handing the buffer over to PipeWire. This fixes screencast flickering problems on NVIDIA setups.

https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/pull/2175

This is not PW explicit sync; I can now finish that too (OBS and PW released their fixes), but it'll act more as an optimization on top of the current code (since only OBS can use it for now, and not on its Flathub build (PW is too old there)).

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We made it to 10k stars on GitHub!!!! :apartyblobcat: :apartyblobcat: :apartyblobcat:

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Quite comprehensive desktop shell for niri released today: https://github.com/bbedward/DankMaterialShell

Based on QuickShell; made by the same people who started the niri Discord server.

Checking it out now, looks very cool! Though not without a few rough edges to iron out of course

#niri #quickshell

Ppl naturally want to put something in the Overview backdrop, like a blurred version of the wallpaper (see how popular Blur My Shell is). Orthogonally, some ppl want the wallpaper to be static, rather than move with workspaces (it can be distracting).

I'm not prepared to dive head-first into image rendering and blur shaders yet, so I made it possible to put a layer surface into the backdrop. This enables both of those cases, likely even more cool things!

https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/wiki/Overview#backdrop-customization

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The Eee PC rocking the Overview

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After some more fixes, and a long rebasing session, I merged the Overview! Please give it more testing using your nearest niri-git package.

https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/wiki/Overview

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After long 3 months of work, I'm glad to release niri v25.05 with the Overview, screenshot UI tablet and touch support, dynamic screencast target and windowed fullscreen, IPC pick-window and pick-color, window urgency, and lots of other things! :ablobcatbongo: :apartyblobcat:

Release notes prepared for your reading pleasure as always: https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/releases/tag/v25.05

#niri #smithay #rust #wayland

Today, screenshot UI updates! Implemented tablet and touchscreen input for area selection (at long last). And, added a small clickable capture button, so screenshots can now be confirmed tablet-, touch-, or mouse-only!

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