Trying Guix: A Nixer's Impressions

Re:Trying Guix: A Nixer's Impressions by abrookewood on Saturday July 19, 2025 @01:12AM (#44612752)

I'm actually more interested in the Niri "A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor". It never occurred to me that a valid desktop/windowing paradigm would be one with an infinite horizontal strip. Not sure if I want it, but it's pretty unique.

https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri?tab=readme-ov-file

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Re:Trying Guix: A Nixer's Impressions by evgpbfhnr on Saturday July 19, 2025 @01:57AM (#44612937)

I've switched from wmii (old suckless tiling wm) to niri a couple of months ago and I've been happier with it than with sway/i3 -- give it a shot :)

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Re:Trying Guix: A Nixer's Impressions by cenamus on Saturday July 19, 2025 @02:41AM (#44613140)

Is it similar to the Gnome plugin PaperWM?

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Re:Trying Guix: A Nixer's Impressions by emaro on Saturday July 19, 2025 @04:21AM (#44613600)

Yes, Niri is inspired by PaperWM afaik.

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Re:Trying Guix: A Nixer's Impressions by sunshine-o on Saturday July 19, 2025 @05:44AM (#44613997)

Scrollable-tiling is the best. Especially if you have two wide monitors side by side.

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Re:Trying Guix: A Nixer's Impressions by nicman23 on Saturday July 19, 2025 @07:41AM (#44614660)

i used to do something like that with i3. binding meta+tab to go to the next workplace and some combos to move the windows with the same base.

then i realized that it is basically just want i did with compiz or kwin and moved back lol

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Re:Trying Guix: A Nixer's Impressions by yencabulator on Saturday July 19, 2025 @01:13PM (#44617317)

Think of it less as an "infinite strip" (with implications of windows being lost in the mist, far away) and more as "each workspace is laid out in a strip".

Most of my workspaces have 2-5 columns, with 2-3 fitting on an ultrawide monitor at once.[1]

It's more like "what if tiling window manager, but with even less time spent on adjusting window sizes".

[1]: Let's agree not to talk of the insanity that contains my open browser windows. That is as near infinite as 96 GB RAM lets me have..

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Re:Trying Guix: A Nixer's Impressions by rekado on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @11:09AM (#44724363)

I'm using it on Guix via the Rosenthal channel: https://codeberg.org/hako/rosenthal.git

I quite like it because it's more predictable than automatic tiling window managers and generally less work than manual tilers. (I've used tilers since maybe 2010 with xmonad.)

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