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Trying out niri

Source: trofi - All posts ·

I have been using sway for a while . sway is good. I can remember only one bug where chromium was able to trigger assertion failures and compositor crashed on huge 32K-wide surfaces. It was a bug in wlroots which was fixed quickly. I occasionally look around for other compositors that I could use to check out slightly different tiling ideas and fancy features of a modern wayland desktop. This time I tried niri . It looked quite close to sway , uses rust as implementation language and kdl as a config language. I turned niri to match my sway config very quickly. niri Config Tweaks I switched Alt

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