Notices by Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online), page 4

adding explicit sync to niri pipewire screencasts, and already found bugs in Smithay, drm-rs and OBS. exciting

@BrodieOnLinux @thelinuxcast put this on the wiki to have something to refer to: https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/wiki/FAQ#why-doesnt-niri-integrate-xwayland-like-other-compositors

@BrodieOnLinux @thelinuxcast a combination of factors
- it's quite a bit of work
- you need to appease the X11 idea of windowing, whereas I want to have the best code for Wayland
- niri doesn't have a good global coordinate system required by X11
- you get an endless stream of X11 bugs that take further time and effort
- there aren't actually that many X11 only clients nowadays, even less that don't work with xwl-s
- with built-in xwl-s integration 95% of this problem is solved

@thelinuxcast nice post and glad you liked parts of niri, but I would appreciate some benefit of the doubt instead of jumping straight into "bone-headed developers didn't add Xwayland just because they wanted to be different" :)

question for free software maintainers

how do you go on holidays?? I'm at the point where I get 20-25 GitHub emails per day (issues, PRs, discussions, replies). I'm scared to think what I will come back to if I leave for a week or two

@nikitonsky google called, wants their 17th blue accent back

@BrodieOnLinux @zstg lol i actually was about to write that since you used the X11 version for global hotkeys purposes, maybe you disabled the Wayland permission for the OBS flatpak

@BrodieOnLinux not sure what the issue is in your case, but if it opens then crashes, try giving it an Xwayland DISPLAY. There's a known problem with CEF, that the browser source requires a DISPLAY even on Wayland, and will crash OBS otherwise

you know google, i use en_US specifically to avoid thi
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Is there some easy way to build a live ISO that's more or less Fedora Workstation but with a few extra packages from a COPR? Want it for easy testing on different devices

#fedora #linux #silverblue

today's progress: wheel scrolling up and down, right click to scroll left and right, click on workspace to focus, some keyboard fixes

this is all mouse-only on the video. only currently using a 3rd-party tool for the hot corner (waycorner), i'll integrate that later

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started working on an Overview for niri. very wip, lots to do, got some basic rendering and dragging working though

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today I opened a draft PR for the Overview, and request everyone to test it and report issues: https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/pull/1440

also, today's new overview feature: drag-and-drop into a new workspace between/above/below!

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this is a completely normal screenshot. nothing unusual here

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Looking for testing and feedback for server-side shadows: https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/pull/990

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Why would you even want tabs in niri? Occasionally it's quite useful. For example, when streaming programming, I increase the font size, so I can no longer fit editor + terminal on the screen at once. Scrolling back and forth gets annoying, and tabs feel just right for this.

I'm adding tabs to niri. Instead of some separate mode, they're just changing how a column is displayed. This means all your hotkeys and everything works exactly the same with tabs. Which was a wonderful UX idea by @elkowar!

I've got a draft PR going with some design and UX questions, please feel free to try it and give feedback: https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/pull/1085

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Added shadow support for layer-shell surfaces!

Though unfortunately layer-shell has no way to signal the visual geometry, so this only looks right if the layer surface doesn't have its own margins.

https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/wiki/Configuration:-Layer-Rules#shadow

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ppl from our niri matrix playing around with the new compositor-side shadows! These screenshots are from @r4hulrosh4n and calops (no fedi)

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I merged tabbed columns into niri! Now you can play around with them using your nearest niri-git package. With working animations and all :ablobcatbongo:

Noticed tabs can sometimes be useful for comparing windows without taking screenshots. Here for example I'm running the Adw demo from F41 vs. nightly Flathub, showing the slight color difference and apparently a 1 px layout shift.

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