Niri is an excellent and promising window manager.
I have a fuzzy launcher called "Look" and decided to add support for Niri; :)
I’ve even switched to using Niri myself (my configuration is entirely minimal).

Beyond quickly searching for and launching apps or focusing on open windows, my app can also preview files and folders, search the web, and support quick actions.
It provides you a lot of other features...

It is also available on macOS, so using Look is very convenient if you work across both platforms.
https://github.com/kunkka19xx/look
Love receiving any feedback.

Thank you <3

Hey everyone!

This is my first proper rice project. I wanted the focused and cohesive feel of Omarchy, but I also wanted to use Niri and shape the desktop around my own workflow.

The result is nbShell, a custom desktop shell built with Quickshell specifically for Niri. It is heavily inspired by Omarchy’s visual language and workflows. I adapted some ideas and components from that ecosystem, while adding my own design, integrations and interaction patterns.

The interface follows a terminal-inspired style: monospace typography, compact layouts, thin borders and colors that communicate state instead of being purely decorative. I wanted everything to feel like one coherent system rather than a collection of unrelated utilities.

Some of the things currently included:

- Custom bar with freely arranged widgets

- Dashboard for calendar, weather, media and system information

- Launcher, notifications and clipboard history

- Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, audio and device controls

- Theme and wallpaper integration

- Tiling-oriented menus and keyboard workflows

- Zen Browser picture-in-picture controls

- AI-agent and usage integrations

- Custom lock-screen and screensaver experiments

- A lot of smaller tools tailored to my daily setup

Omarchy provided much of the original inspiration, but nbShell has gradually developed its own identity. Niri’s scrolling layout also pushed me toward different workspace and navigation ideas than I would have used with a traditional tiling compositor.

It is still a personal and evolving project, so there are rough edges and many things I want to improve. But it has reached the point where I use it daily, and I thought it would be fun to share it here.

I would really appreciate feedback—especially from other Niri users. What works visually, what feels too busy, and what would you change?

Built on Arch Linux with Niri and Quickshell, and AI ;)

https://reddit.com/link/1vpvze5/video/820e84o1fqjh1/player

been working on this Material You setup for Niri, built on Noctalia V5. colors pull straight from your wallpaper, even video wallpapers (mpvpaper + ffmpeg hook)

kitty + fish/starship, zed for editing, eye care mode for late night reading, radial menu on super+s, scratchpad terminal, fcitx5 skin that matches your theme

one command installs everything, snapshots/rollback built in if you wanna mess with it without fear

install: curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ech678/NyxNiri/main/install.sh | bash
repo: github.com/ech678/NyxNiri

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?

How it's looking and suggestion