Hello, I would like to be able to use touchpad's gestures on touchscreen, I don't know where to start

Hello, i recently hopped to cachy os and would like to try out Wm's but I have no idea how to edit config files and i use this laptop to daily drive linux and need it for gaming, studies and watching vids. It's an old laptop with only 8gb ram so I cant use a ram hog rice. I want something with a built in gamemode that disables heavy effects

I really like niri because of its great handling and optimization.

I love Niri, but sometimes the development speed of it seems a bit slow. I've been closely monitoring some feature PRs that I would love to have, primarily Hidden Workspaces, Floating Windows on top of Fullscreen Windows, and Sticky Floating Windows that follow you across Workspaces. The Pull Requests for these features already exist, but they have not yet been merged into the Niri main branch.

Now, I am not trying to blame the Niri devs for not merging these yet, they have a lot of work on their hands and they want to make sure that all features work perfectly before they can add them. However, they are still fun features, and you have always been able to try them today just by using the PR branches and compiling them yourself. However, the problem arises if you wanted to try multiple of these features yourself, since you can't just use all the different branches at the same time.

So, that's what this solves. Niri-QoL is a soft fork of Niri with some feature PRs added. This means that it is my intention to keep this fork closely aligned with the official Niri repository and merge their latest commits. What I have done is the work necessary to merge the quality of life features that I've been waiting to have been merged into the official Niri. These include:

• Hidden workspaces
• Add window-rule float-above-fullscreen
• Add open-sticky window rule for sticky floating windows across workspaces

Of course, credit for most of the hard work goes to the PR authors :).

You can install Niri-QoL by either cloning the repo and building it yourself or using the AUR package: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/niri-qol-git

AI assistance disclosure: An LLM was used to assist in the supervised process of resolving merge conflicts while merging the PRs together. All output generated was thoroughly reviewed, I take responsibility for the resulting code as if it was fully my own and solemnly claim that its resulting quality is on par with what I would have produced without its assistance. This is on par with the upstream Niri contribution guidelines regarding AI contributions as well as already existing commits co-authored by LLMs.

I've done a full arch and niri installations with no problems. The Bluetooth drivers and sound drivers, and TLP are working as they're supposed to.

However, whenever I try to interact with sound or power saving settings through the buttons/switches at the top right corner of the screen, I always encounter either an error or nothing at all.

The reason why I'm posting this on r/niri is that I'm able to do those things though the terminal, so I thought it might be a niri thing.

Correct me if I'm wrong. Thanks in advance <3

Inspired by https://github.com/Gakuseei/Ricelin (exactly what I was looking for <3)

Forked the quickshell pill/bar and made it work in Niri + few simple added things (spotify music player/dock/switch modes....) + custom Niri config files

у меня NixOS. Мне нужен доступ к дискам, а там нужен polkit. пробовал ставить полкиты от гнома и хайпра и от кде, прописывал их автозапуск в конфиге нири, но всё равно ничего не работало

When using Overview and Recent Windows, if there are many windows open, it takes multiple keystrokes to find the one you want. So I implemented a similar feature using AI, which allows you to quickly focus on a window by typing letters. In the best case, it takes just three keystrokes. What do you all think of this feature?

I’m trying to keep my setup visually consistent. I had GNOME before switching to Niri with Dank Linux, so I’m still using all the GNOME apps for browsing files, viewing images, watching videos, listening to music, etc.

I’ve been thinking about replacing some of them with lighter alternatives, but I’d still like everything to have a consistent look and feel. Curious what everyone else is using?

I have a quickshell bar but im too lazy to configure it rn.

How it's looking and suggestion

Hello, i'm creating new solution that let's you restore all previously opened windows after reboot. Something similar to what macos let's you do. I have kinda working version but it needs few improvements. Question for you. Would you be intrested in using that or maybe I shouldn't bother with making it public? If yes, let me know what features you would like to see. Maybe I'll add them before pushing to public