I discovered niri this morning the way you discover most things these days: through a rabbit hole that started with someone’s rice post and ended with me questioning my life choices. For the uninitiated, niri is a scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor that lets you navigate your windows by scrolling horizontally through columns instead of jumping between discrete workspaces. It’s either brilliant or completely pointless, and I can’t decide which. ...
This configuration crafts a highly efficient, keyboard-centric, tiling desktop environment built around the Hyprland compositor, featuring the popular Nord color scheme, and overall a modern, minimalist and polished look & feel. Functionally, it’s designed for speed and organization through tiling window management. Interaction heavily relies on keyboard shortcuts, including Vim-style navigation (HJKL) for moving focus and swapping windows. There is an extensive use of “submaps” – modal keybinding layers triggered by Super + <Letter> (A/I/R/S) – which provide quick, context-specific access to [A]pplications, custom [I]nformation scripts, [R]ofi functions, and 26 instantly accessible “magic” [S]cratchpads. ...