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Re: KaOS dropping KDE, going ti Niri

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On Wed, 18 Feb 2026 12:41:01 +0200, Anssi Saari wrote:


> Interesting. Not KaOS but this "Niri/Noctalia" might be. Ehh, so Niri is
> a compositor which I think implies window manager in Wayland and
> Noctalia is a desktop shell? Might take look on an Arch system.

I haven't used it but it doesn't look appealing from the video on github.

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

I use i3/sway with one workspace divided into 3 parts, two vertical panes 
on the left, one on the right. Top left is auduino_cli, bottom left is 
minicom, and the right is Vim. I think with Niri I would wind up with 
three full height side by side panels. KaOS is way down the distro list 
but switching users from KDE to a scrolling WM may be a heavy lift.

 
> I'm interested since I dunno if I'm ready to go to Wayland when KDE
> drops X11 support but we'll see. I had a quick try of KDE on Wayland
> recently, was "mostly fine" for a quick look. But then that was just
> email/browswer/terminal/Emacs and the devil's in the details, as always.
> My other GUI environment runs just Awesome WM which hasn't seen a
> release since 2019 so eventually that'll come to some kind of an end.

I've got KDE/Wayland on two boxes with no problems for anything I do but 
I'm not a gamer. A few versions ago QGIS did have a popup saying some of 
the dialogs might act strange. I didn't encounter the problem and it was 
fixed in later releases. The Ubuntu/GNOME box is also Wayland with no 
problems.

The Mint laptop is X11. There is an option at login for a Cinnamon/Wayland 
session that I tried once. It locked up after about 5 minutes. Cinnamon/
X11 is stable. I think part of going to a longer release cycle is to allow 
the developers to work on the Wayland version. 

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    Re: KaOS dropping KDE, going to Niri Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-02-17 03:54 +0000
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        Re: KaOS dropping KDE, going to Niri jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> - 2026-02-18 12:04 -0500
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    Re: KaOS dropping KDE, going ti Niri Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2026-02-17 10:27 +0000
  Re: KaOS dropping KDE, going ti Niri Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2026-02-17 09:50 +0100
    Re: KaOS dropping KDE, going ti Niri Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2026-02-17 16:09 +0100
      Re: KaOS dropping KDE, going to Niri Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-02-18 00:36 +0000
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  Re: KaOS dropping KDE, going ti Niri Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi> - 2026-02-18 12:41 +0200
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