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niri with waybar, rofi and foot (lemmy.ml)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/unixporn@lemmy.ml
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  1. Compositor/WM: niri
  2. Bar: waybar
  3. Terminal/Shell: foot / fish
  4. App Launcher: rofi
  5. File Manager: thunar
  6. Browser: helium
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[–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

Yeah, I do feel you about Niri being “bigger” than other options and thus leaves the whole Unix philosophy a bit. Though I can’t say I’m mad about it coming with screenshots built in because I struggled getting screenshots working for my entire stay on Arch. I didn’t try super hard, just had other fish to fry, but it was a nice out of box experience and functions a lot like the screenshot utility I used while on windows and feels a lot like the screenshot system on OSX from when I was there on school laptops in my teens.

I can also totally understand the getting lost part. Though over time that issue has gone away for me because I keep specific windows in specific workspaces and those workspaces in specific spots relative to each other. Though this is why River sounds interesting. Being able to set a tag for a workspace and then assign windows to it seems like a very natural way to match the organization of my windows in my mind.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Though I can’t say I’m mad about it coming with screenshots built in because I struggled getting screenshots working for my entire stay on Arch. I didn’t try super hard, just had other fish to fry

    exactly, i think this is why right now if a someone were to ask me for a starting point to get into a WM environment--I'd say niri with noctalia. But for me, there is some joy in just writing my scripts with grim and slurp and being able to do wacky things like automatically create a magic link on my local server, and my own domain to the screen shot that is accessible to the outside net.

    yea, one thing that just feels so good for me is being able to view multiple tags at once. So you can temporarily view tag X and Y together (so filling in a password, copying a command, or reading documentation), but then you don't have to reorganize you applications back into their "designated" work spaces/tags. Your "chat" and "terminal" can remain in their workspaces, but you can view them together briefly without having to move them back and forth. For me as someone who usually tries to abide to each activity has it's own workspace/tag, this work really well.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago

    Ohhhhhhh. That scratched something in my brain. The viewing multiple tags. That’s on the fly special workspaces. Or maybe dynamic would be the better word. Like any tag can become that floating workspace. Presumably you could script context awareness into that too…Okay okay. I will be giving River a try. I’m in the throes of refactoring my nix config, but once I’ve got something stable again I’ll make sure to break it by installing River!

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