This is my first wayland compositor outside of qtile. I tried qtile wayland but always reverted to X instead of using wayland. Never liked hyprland because its too much, not a fan of sway because its not a dynamic tiler, river is a bit barebones. I got adjusted to Niri’s workflow quickly and quite like it. Never need more than 2 workspaces because of infinite scroll

I’ve been using it and it’s been a good experience. It runs smooth, has less flashy stuff (at least by default), and an easy to use config file.

sure… let me get them to a repo, a few hours time please

https://codeberg.org/ranjan/niri-dots

Wallpaper

• swaybg is needed for wallpaper
• dot_local/share/backgrounds/ has the wallpaper

Fonts

• Montserrat for UI
• DaddyTime Mono Nerd for terminal

DeadBeef

• config may or maynot work for you, change music folder in config

Fish Shell

• fish shell uses https://gitlab.com/dwt1/shell-color-scripts for greeting
• fish shell also needs starship https://github.com/starship/starship
• change alias as needed, i have alaised eza, paru, reflector, micro, git, yt-dlp all available in arch repos or aur

Fuzzel

• Rofi/dmenu replacement

Kitty

• Terminal

Paru

• Aur helper

Pragtical

• Editor

Sway Lock

• Screen locking app

Waybar

• Bar used

Notification

• mako

Theme and Icons

• Pop icons https://github.com/pop-os/icon-theme
• FlatColor (included in dot_themes)

Zen Browser

• userChrome.css included

https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri?tab=readme-ov-file#video-demo

I was curious too, looks especially neat for touchpads.

there are a few on youtube