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A secret niri v25.02 feature! Make your floating windows FLOAT by putting this in your config: window-rule { match is-floating=true baba-is-float true } Works in the nix flake too :) #niri #wayland

i have this old ASUS Eee PC collecting dust, decided to try if niri will run on it. well, it actually runs! a few shaders failed compiling (ran into ALU instruction limits), but otherwise seems to work #niri

After long 3 months of work, I'm glad to release niri v25.05 with the Overview, screenshot UI tablet and touch support, dynamic screencast target, and lots of other things! Release notes prepared for your reading pleasure as always: github.com/YaLTeR/niri/... #niri #smithay #rust #wayland

niri v25.08 is now released with a logo, xwayland-satellite integration, screen reader support, window positions in IPC and many other improvements! 😄 Read the notes here: github.com/YaLTeR/niri/... now i need at least a month off from any release notes preparation 😴 #niri #smithay #wayland #rust

Today I'm releasing niri v25.11 with long-awaited config includes, Alt-Tab, true maximize, custom modes, and a bunch of other improvements! Enjoy the release notes :) github.com/YaLTeR/niri/... We also have new quick start guides: yalter.github.io/niri/Getting... #niri #smithay #wayland #rust

i added the pointer warping thing from blender to when you drag the view around in niri with the mouse hf with this new way to pass time during boring meetings (on a more serious note this helps when you need to scroll further than the edge of your monitor allows) #niri

biblically accurate window management #niri

Btw I'm working on window blur in niri! Both xray and regular. Xray always "shows through" to the background. This allows it to be very efficient: compute blurred texture only once, then just draw that texture (very cheap). Not a single blur recomputation in this video! #niri

Moved the niri repo from my personal GitHub to a new org: github.com/niri-wm/niri I set up a GH Pages redirect so all links should keep working Main reason is to be able to give granular perms to ppl (issue triage); also gonna move more relevant repos like awesome-niri #niri

Niri can block windows from screencasts. This must work with all other features including background blur. What if a surface *inside* the blur is blocked out? It gets extra tricky with open/close animations where you can set a custom shader, but I think I made it work! #niri

Finished region support for ext-background-effect/kde-blur protocols in niri. Clients can use this to shape blur to their rounded corners for example. Here's the Vicinae launcher using ext-bg-effect to get background blur with rounded corners with no extra configuration. #niri

niri has reached 20k stars on GitHub! 🥳🥳 pretty wild tbh thanks everyone for support! ❤️ #niriGitHub tooltip showing the niri repo with 20,000 stars

After an additional round of fixes, cleanups and huge commit splitting, I just merged The Blur Pull Request to niri main! There's manual blur an ext-background-effect, already supported by dms-git and quickshell-git. Now I want to see screenshots that put Tahoe to shame #niri

behold, the jpeg shader #niri

shoutout to one of my favorite works of art youtu.be/kCU1RMDM22c