Loupe image viewer with blur added on its main pop-up menu with added heavy background transparency.

After an additional round of fixes, cleanups and huge commit splitting, I just merged The Blur Pull Request to niri main! There's manual blur an ext-background-effect, already supported by dms-git and quickshell-git.

Now I want to see screenshots that put Tahoe to shame

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GitHub tooltip showing the niri repo with 20,000 stars

niri has reached 20k stars on GitHub! 🥳🥳

pretty wild tbh

thanks everyone for support! ❤️

#niriGitHub tooltip showing the niri repo with 20,000 stars

Vicinae layer-shell popup and settings window, both with background blur and with rounded corners.

Finished region support for ext-background-effect/kde-blur protocols in niri. Clients can use this to shape blur to their rounded corners for example.

Here's the Vicinae launcher using ext-bg-effect to get background blur with rounded corners with no extra configuration.

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Niri can block windows from screencasts. This must work with all other features including background blur. What if a surface *inside* the blur is blocked out?

It gets extra tricky with open/close animations where you can set a custom shader, but I think I made it work!

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GitHub - niri-wm/niri: A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor. A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor. Contribute to niri-wm/niri development by creating an account on GitHub.

Moved the niri repo from my personal GitHub to a new org: github.com/niri-wm/niri

I set up a GH Pages redirect so all links should keep working

Main reason is to be able to give granular perms to ppl (issue triage); also gonna move more relevant repos like awesome-niri

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Btw I'm working on window blur in niri! Both xray and regular.

Xray always "shows through" to the background. This allows it to be very efficient: compute blurred texture only once, then just draw that texture (very cheap).

Not a single blur recomputation in this video!

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Discord screenshot Triple-Q: hey guys look Deserten: *meme Triple-Q: free [Nitro crate] Triple-Q: just touch it

⚠️ NEW DISCORD SCAM WARNING ⚠️
A new Discord scam is going around where users are purporting to give free Nitro. They say that if you click the green Nitro icon, you will get it. This is a scam. Nitro crates actually explode on contact

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have shown Alzheimer’s disease can be REVERSED- not just prevented. Using a potent neuroprotective compound called P7C3-A20, they found RESTORING balance to a central cellular energy molecule (NAD+) not only PREVENTED disease features but REVERSED them, EVEN at late stages.

biblically accurate window management

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i added the pointer warping thing from blender to when you drag the view around in niri with the mouse

hf with this new way to pass time during boring meetings

(on a more serious note this helps when you need to scroll further than the edge of your monitor allows)

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Yep! By a small local business here who print wooden and acrylic badges. Both from the photo were printed by them actually

Acrylic charm of a niri icon

check out what i've got

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the code if curious: github.com/YaLTeR/plitki

more demos:
- 4K SV: youtu.be/GzLHJjB-zAU
- more 4K SV: youtu.be/C50_wZ1y0cg
- 7K LN: youtu.be/dFpWJRPD5ZA

did some exploring how terminal apps work (yes it's as bad as they say) to make a terminal ui for plitki, my vsrg engine.

how bad would it be, quantized to the terminal grid? surprisingly, with the right characters, not too bad.

ofc being plitki, there's full support for all kinds of SV

Today I'm releasing niri v25.11 with long-awaited config includes, Alt-Tab, true maximize, custom modes, and a bunch of other improvements! Enjoy the release notes :)

github.com/YaLTeR/niri/...

We also have new quick start guides: yalter.github.io/niri/Getting...

#niri #smithay #wayland #rust

Silksong game completion screen showing 100% completion in 53h 09m 44s

Shaw

niri full-sized logo. It's the word niri but the i dots are candle flames.

niri v25.08 is now released with a logo, xwayland-satellite integration, screen reader support, window positions in IPC and many other improvements! 😄

Read the notes here: github.com/YaLTeR/niri/...

now i need at least a month off from any release notes preparation 😴

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SourceRuns - Twitch 2025 Sourceruns Marathon: Nodebuster [Any%] by calamity

We're live!! Come check out the 2025 SourceRuns marathon and consider making a donation to Make-A-Wish Interrnation! twitch.tv/sourceruns

After long 3 months of work, I'm glad to release niri v25.05 with the Overview, screenshot UI tablet and touch support, dynamic screencast target, and lots of other things!

Release notes prepared for your reading pleasure as always: github.com/YaLTeR/niri/...

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fastfetch output in Alacritty in niri on an ASUS Eee PC

i have this old ASUS Eee PC collecting dust, decided to try if niri will run on it. well, it actually runs! a few shaders failed compiling (ran into ALU instruction limits), but otherwise seems to work

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A secret niri v25.02 feature! Make your floating windows FLOAT by putting this in your config:

window-rule {
match is-floating=true
baba-is-float true
}

Works in the nix flake too :)

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Wow, looks sick!

Today I'm releasing niri v25.02 with tabs, shadows, DnD view scrolling, and a ton of other improvements! Read the notes at github.com/YaLTeR/niri/... and @ your distro to update the package.

[[honestly wtf how did so much stuff happen, it's been barely over a month]]

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I added tabs to niri!

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the ideal osu! window shape

something odd about these windows

After a full day of writing release notes (god how'd it take so long 😩), niri v25.01 is out with Floating Windows and Working Layer-Shell Desktop Icons and so many more improvements! And we finally escaped zerover :)

Read here: github.com/YaLTeR/niri/...

#niri #rust #smithay #wayland

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ah right, the pixel format thing?