Setup Showcase

[YaLTeR]

Showcase your custom niri setups!

Rules:¹

• Upload your screenshot or video directly to GitHub. This way we won't lose them if the hosting is temporary or disappears.
• You can post multiple times.
• Linking your config is very welcome. Use direct commit links if possible to preserve the point in history (press y when looking at a file or folder on GitHub to convert the URL).

Footnotes

1. Shamelessly stolen from the Awesome WM discussion. ↩

[FreeFull]

I have sfwbar at the top, which is set up to show the current window title. Window borders are set to have very slight rounding. Also, unfocused windows have a slightly lower opacity.

[tomysurya]

hey can you share your sfwbar config? thanks!

[FreeFull]

@tomysurya
Sure, here you go:
sfwbar.config.txt

[tomysurya]

great! thanks

[YaLTeR]

To celebrate the newly added rounded corners.

Fetch:

Real niri development on the main monitor:

Some notes:

• Bar: Waybar
• Font: Iosevka Term Medium
• Workspace-relative gradient borders are quite good for this wallpaper due to a bright spot in the top-right

Dots: https://github.com/YaLTeR/dotfiles/blob/3600ae2db33aecfeee00201ac0fe5e584902c1f0/common/.config/niri/config.kdl

[tomysurya]

top:
launcher: lavalauncher
bottom:
status bar: yambar

[vncnz]

Sorry to bother you, what is your file manager? I'm using Dophin but I have black folder/files names on dark background and in general a light theme in all kde apps on Niri. I don't get how to apply (kde) theme in Niri too. Can you/someone give a tip to me? Thanks!

[throwaway-squared]

that looks an awful lot like pcmanfm, i use it too and its pretty nice, gets the job done

[cptn-cosmo]

• Bar: Waybar (wip)
• Launcher: Fuzzel
• Terminal: Alacritty
• Wallpaper: "Rainbow P3"

find the configs here: https://github.com/cptn-cosmo/dotfiles/tree/2fa2d8e90ed297fbe9b361ad0cc1818194ca5b04

[ogios]

what is the app on the right

[offsetcyan]

FFXIV, lol.

[sodiboo]

output-trimmed.mp4

real glxgears!! none of that eglgears_wayland!!

config at github:sodiboo/nix-config#fa49f90 but watch out for the build error (nom output in screenshot is dependent on the system not building; actually just set the wallpaper to firewatch-wide for the active config)

[algernon]

niri-demo.mp4

• No bar, no wallpaper, much typing
• Niri version: Initial implementation of named workspaces #314¹
• Launcher: Tofi
• Terminal: poki-pona
• Configuration:
  • Source
  • Browseable²

Footnotes

1. Via my fork of sodiboo/niri-flake ↩

2. This is not a permalink, might not correspond to the source linked above! ↩

[EssenSea]

1.yambar
2.fuzzel
3.kitty

[moilong]

waybar
colors by pywal
fastfetch
Dots : https://gitlab.com/sharkler/sharkler-dots/-/tree/main/.config/niri?ref_type=heads

[Geek1405]

Hey out of sheer curiosity, how did you get niri working on void, I tried, not very hard admittedly, but I tried and couldn't figure it out.

[throwaway-squared]

i just managed to do it, follow the building guide, you can look for the package names with xbps

[bittin]

Niri on the development version of EndeavourOS with a couple of bars :) and the EOS Sway config: https://github.com/EndeavourOS-Community-Editions/sway

[nebulosa2007]

Niri, waybar (2 panels), some gnome apps, fuzzel

[cptn-cosmo]

Do you have the config for the bars? 👀

[nebulosa2007]

Sure! Here the link
All modules/custom scripts to waybar is here

And all others config related my Niri setup. Please use attached README file

[binamralamsal]

Just installed today.

[moilong]

window-open and window-close custom-shader in niri v0.1.6.
Thanks to @YaLTeR and @algernon .

niri_animations.mp4

config: https://gitlab.com/sharkler/sharkler-dots/-/blob/main/.config/niri/config.kdl?ref_type=heads

[vollowx]

2024-06-02.00-56-38.mp4

Conf

Thinner vertical waybar, rounded corners and global theme switching, even applied to Neovim!

Without the delay of some GTK apps, the theme switching animation would be perfect yet I don't want to delay the whole animation to wait for them

[YaLTeR]

Oh, that's quite nice! How do you get nvim to change colorscheme?

[vollowx]

Oh, that's quite nice! How do you get nvim to change colorscheme?

By several scripts: setbg, setcolor and some config in Neovim. The setbg corresponds to the background option in Neovim, while setcolor corresponds to :colorscheme .... Furthermore, you also need to modify the GTK themes that will be applied to adopt these script.

Basically copied from Bekaboo/dot and Bekaboo/nvim

[YaLTeR]

Thanks, this is what I've been looking for:

nvim --clean --headless --server "$sock" --remote-send "<Cmd>if &bg !=# '$1' | let g:script_set_bg=1 | set bg=$1 | unlet g:script_set_bg | endif<CR>" +'qa!' 2>/dev/null

[vollowx]

Yep, that's enough for the basic functionality

[Suyashtnt]

the semi-productive setup™
https://github.com/Suyashtnt/commafiles/

[EssenSea]

could I get the name of manuscrpit pages pdf viewer?

[Suyashtnt]

A) That isn't a PDF
B) That apps Obsidian, more specifically the manuscript-looking thing is excalidraw embedded into it

update since I updated main post: I had a screenshot that showed Obsidian with an excalidraw handwritten drawing. I no longer do

[brainlessbitch]

I love niri :3

[vollowx]

Look's pretty clean! I wonder what's the bar and applets.

[brainlessbitch]

everything is made with ags, and they're not technically applets just icons

[EinfachEli08]

Do you still have the dots? I am very interested in them :D

[tazjin]

Busy:

Less busy:

First time since 2018 or so that I'm trying a different window environment (previously on EXWM). I noticed that tiling sometimes gets annoying (even if you have the flexibility of Emacs' buffer management), especially when things start getting resized randomly as you move windows around. Standard "stacking" WMs get messy though and need lots of manual intervention. Scrolling seems like a good middle.

The spatial nature of scrolling also seems very cool (as if the brain is better able to remember where what is located), it might even offset the pain of using Wayland with all of its alpha-quality issues (plus, Niri being seemingly very well written helps with this!).

So thanks for this, and keep it up!

[applejag]

Love seeing some Simon Stålenhag art <3

[fyxtheinferno]

niri, Fedora 40 and waybar, featuring some ancient desktop background Google scraped off a mostly broken starmen.net thread (google search "starman earthbound wallpaper"). very very crusty but that just makes it look like.. a scan of a daft punk album cover, or something

right-padding with a vertical bar is very nice, makes it a little easier to keep track of infinitely-scrolling desktop space:

waybar dotfiles, feel free to poke around yourself and/or give suggestions because I think the double-emdash in between time and date is a liiiiittle ugly. just a little bit. (-6px left-padding is for symmetry; I've found 12px is a nice window gap size)

[YaLTeR]

Nice! Idk if you saw any of my recent screenshots, but I have just space between date and clock, and clock in bold font. Maybe that would work better for you?

[fyxtheinferno]

Nice! Idk if you saw any of my recent screenshots, but I have just space between date and clock, and clock in bold font. Maybe that would work better for you?

that looks better, yeah. thanks!
(I also switched over to DejaVu Sans Mono. as one does)

[TheZoq2]

For years I've had the icons of windows on each workspace in my bar, and in every single bar and WM combination I've tried that has been super difficult to achieve in a non-hacky way, until niri-ipc events were merged.

It relies on a small utility that communicates with niri-ipc and prints a new message to eww whenever the workspace configuration changes https://gitlab.com/TheZoq2/nirieww

Full dotfiles:
http://gitlab.com/thezoq2/dotfiles

[Okanda]

Hello. Do you know if something similar exits for Waybar?

[YaLTeR]

niri/workspaces (currently in my PR) should in theory be able to do this but I haven't implemented it there

[jgregoire]

I recently got a freebie laptop from work. Sadly, the screen is 1366x768, so I had to optimize niri and waybar from my desktop (3440x1440 ultrawide) config to use fewer pixels.

The far left waybar widget is a custom one that grabs the active window title via niri IPC.

Colorscheme is onedark-vivid from https://github.com/olimorris/onedarkpro.nvim.

jgregoire/dotfiles@6eb186c

[trolljoe]

can you tell that i love gradients?
config here

[YaLTeR]

Nice! Might be worth adding small gaps between the bar and the monitor edges too?

[trolljoe]

Nice! Might be worth adding small gaps between the bar and the monitor edges too?

there's really tiny gaps already, but i've added some more margin, thanks!

[racagogi]

2024-09-14-01-09-45.mp4

config

used programs

• wezterm
• eww
• swww
• vivaldi
• wl-screenrec

[prmadev]

• foot
• waybar
• swaybg
• Monaspace
• RosePine Moon
• Helix

[EssenSea]

love the style

[idlip]

Emacs loves Niri now!

OS: NixOS
Editor/IDE: Emacs
WM: niri
term: eshell, eat, foot
Notify: fnott
pdf viewer: sioyek
Ricing: Stylix takes care
bar: waybar

Rest: Emacs!

Dots: d-nix

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Thank you for developing niri! Scrolling behavior makes more sense and I feel better in using it compared to traditional TWM.

[EssenSea]

the dark is too dark!!!

[idlip]

Nice that you noticed, I have an Oled display (bingo), So bg goes 000000

[chinatsu]

spent some time today setting up waybar, now that niri 0.1.9 landed on arch :)

edit: fixed my messed up fonts

[nakibrayan3]

dotfiles and wallpaper please.

[chinatsu]

dotfiles are a big big mess right now, so i don't really wanna share them haha. it's all based on everforest light soft, if that helps

here's the wallpaper though (sloppily upscaled still from dead dead demons dededede destruction)

[nakibrayan3]

Thank you.

[Okanda]

Hi. What app is on the right?

[sodiboo]

Hi. What app is on the right?

looks like the official Spotify client with Spicetify

[tyressk]

I set up Arch on my laptop recently and decided use Niri. Super simple set up so far

kitty + fish
Waybar with wttrbar for weather
swaync
crabfetch
swww for my bg

[EssenSea]

which city is in your background?

[tyressk]

This is NYC. I was there recently and took this pic from the Edge observation deck

[oatmealine]

current laptop setup, minimal to try and save screen space. i ❤️ bitmap fonts (which is why the text might look odd)
waybar, wezterm, swww, using cozette & atkinson hyperlegible as fonts and catppuccin as the color scheme
nix flake

[YaLTeR]

I like those colors and icons! Where does that wifi + bluetooth come from?

[oatmealine]

network-manager-applet, blueman-applet; they're just tray icons

[alicealysia]

hehe, sesbians

[alicealysia]

Massochism isn't just a kink, it's a lifestyle

[sodiboo]

which part is supposed to be masochistic? using snap?

[throwaway-squared]

i think they mean light mode

[alicealysia]

Light mode, and the shocking amount of compiling I needed to do to get everything I needed and wanted running on ubuntu

[throwaway-squared]

thats debian based distros for ya

[alexdev16]

config:
config.tar.gz

[EssenSea]

looks like in a big monitor?

[alexdev16]

this is a laptop with a resolution of 2560x1600

[GallowsDove]

Currently still very WIP, but looks presentable enough. Heavily uses Dracula theme.

Niri + Eww + Swaybg + Kitty
No idea why sway is listed as WM, but no Sway in use (beside swaybg and swaylock).

[alicealysia]

you're now a sway user, sorry to hear it.

[sodiboo]

how is your fetch script logo a HD anime girl. why isn't it ASCII art as our POSIX forefathers intended?

[EssenSea]

how is your fetch script logo a HD anime girl. why isn't it ASCII art as our POSIX forefathers intended?

Maybe you could do the same with kitty and fastfetch

[GallowsDove]

how is your fetch script logo a HD anime girl. why isn't it ASCII art as our POSIX forefathers intended?

Maybe you could do the same with kitty and fastfetch

Almost, kitty and neofetch were used

[alicealysia]

Think I'm finally happy with my setup. Sweet really is that theme I keep going back to, it's like my safe place honestly.

[ChrisW-B]

What have you been using to get steam working well in Wayland? I've tried a few methods and none of them seemed perfect

[GallowsDove]

What have you been using to get steam working well in Wayland? I've tried a few methods and none of them seemed perfect

It never works "well" in my experience, but running it under xwayland-satellite and resizing it after it starts makes it work well enough

[alicealysia]

xwayland-satellite. Though it's still a bit buggy, I suspect xwayland satellite is yet to implement esync, as it works pretty flawlessly in gnome.