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

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by PropaGandalf 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] 25 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Isn't it the opposite then? Since your windows will have vertical scrolls, it makes sense to tile them horizontally in order to maximize vertical space for each window, imo.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The app window you scroll up and down in would be the same regardless.

My thinking is we’re already used to going up and down to view other things, so copy that movement to the whole de.