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Niri Debuts As A Scrollable -Tiling Wayland Compositor Inspired By PaperWM (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey folks,

remember the post that was made a few months ago about an infinite canvas/scrollable WM? Here we have the stable release of a (onedirectional) scrollable one inspired by gnome's PaperWM.

Aaaand... ...it's written in Rust!

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Looks nice. Is anyone able to tell if I'm going to screw up my KDE install if I try it out? I've never tried WM / compositors on KDE that weren't targeting KDE before.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

It should be fine I think. On Linux you can have multiple Desktop Environments installed (ex KDE Plasma & Gnome as well.)

I tried Hyprland a few months ago like this. I had Plasma installed then installed hyprland as well. During login with SDDM you can select which DE to launch.

Edit: On github it says you should install it alone to make sure. I dont know then, maybe it works? I am still new to Linux as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I installed GNOME and KDE side-by-side once on Fedora, and that messed a whole bunch of things up like configuration files, icons etc. YMMV

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I recommend rather spinning up a VM to try it out first.