Niri

I tried niri, which is a “scrollable-tiling” Wayland compositor. It’s inspired by PaperWM, which lays windows in an infinite, horizontally-scrolled workspace. The idea sounds neat and I must admit, 10 minutes of my test were rather pleasant and I think it could improve my workflow…

…Ultimately. Because I guess I’m too old to tinker with new software and some things required tinkering. For example, gammastep, a blue light filter, didn’t start when spawned by niri, but it worked from the child terminal. I don’t have time to hunt environment variables which probably caused the error. On top of that, I’d have to rewrite all my keybindings and window rules. There’s no added value in this, so I’ll stick with my trusty sway.

Maybe I’ll try scroll. Apparently it implements the same “scrollable-tiling” paradigm as niri, but it’s a fork of Sway and promises that most of existing configurations should just work. It’s also written in C (contrary to niri being written in Rust), which should also make it easier to create a proper Debian package for myself.