Re: KaOS dropping KDE, going ti Niri

From	Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: KaOS dropping KDE, going ti Niri
Date	2026-02-20 11:45 +0200
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rbowman <bowman@montana.com> writes:

> 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

Agreed. Certainly would take some getting used to. I wonder how that
"windows on an infinite horizontal strip" concept works on multiple
displays, esp. with different DPIs. They say mixed DPI works though.

For me, Awesome just shows the windows which are tagged to show in the
current view and automatically arranges them in a chosen way. It's not a
thing that's easy to explain or understand but for me it clicked. Also
there was a default config that was usable, even without understanding
views and tags as the views work like garden variety virtual desktops
too. Other tiling WMs I tried back then (at least dwm and one or two
others) seemed to assume I want to config everything from scratch. If I
wanted that I would've stayed with my very much tweaked fvwm setup.

> 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.

I think the video shows (from 35 secs) you can put windows in columns?
But what isn't obvious is how it decides the window width. I guess it
has some defaults for that.

> I've got KDE/Wayland on two boxes with no problems for anything I do but 
> I'm not a gamer.

I do play some games (although currently not in Linux) so that's a
consideration. Remote windows is another common thing although I
understand it's doable in Wayland.

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