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Niri Dotfiles

🌿 growing niri dotfiles wayland

What is it?

Personal dotfiles for Niri (Wayland compositor) on Arch Linux. GitHub Dark Default theme, minimal, TUI-first. Fish + Starship, Kitty, Fuzzel, Waybar, LazyVim, all on #58a6ff accent over #050505.

In my setup

Current daily driver. install.sh --base|--all deploys profiles (WM + shell + editor, or everything including the rice) with paru, and every alias/abbreviation is reachable from the shell via cuyy cheatsheet.

Screenshots

Desktop
desktop interface
Launcher
fuzzel app menufuzzel wallpaper selectorfuzzel emoji picker
Apps
neovimyazi file managerlazygitkew music playerbat pagerhtop monitoring
TUI
terminal ui appsminimal dunst notification

Why did I build it?

Moved my daily compositor from Hyprland to Niri, honestly just my preference for how I work and use the machine daily. This config keeps receiving updates and adjustments as I settle in.

What I learned

  • Floating Windows: floating windows in niri always show on top of the tiled windows.
  • Manage Gestures Configuration: hot-corner, delay-ms, max-speed, up to trigger-height/width.
  • Basic Niri Command and Flag: such as niri validate, niri msg window, niri msg layer.
  • Implementation Sed Commands: such sed -i 's/transparency = .*/transparency = 0/'
  • Kitty Remote Control Socket: simple protocol that involves sending data to kitty in the form of JSON.
  • Shellcheck: I learning about formatter and linter .sh, really helped me.
  • Git Permission Conflict: yeahh, I also learned again, about insynchronization of file permission metadata (permission bit) with Git

This project currently growing, as it require some further adjustments.

Credits

Based on aadnanmt/hyprland-dotfiles refactored from Hyprland to Niri WM.

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