niri

Two weeks ago, Cloudflare had a major outage that took down a good half of the internet. Their postmortem included a snippet of Rust code with an unwrap(), causing much internet discourse. Now it is my turn to release Rust software with a healthy dose of unwrap()s, assert!s, and checked arithmetic enabled in release builds.

Niri is a...

Niri is a scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor. Windows are arranged in columns on an infinite strip going to the right. Opening a new window never causes existing windows to resize.

A month ago, on July 31st, we hit 10,000 stars on GitHub! Thanks everyone for your support. 😄 Also, on August 10, niri turned two years old since the [initial commit](https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/commit/ad3c3f8c...

This is a hotfix release for niri v25.05.

• Fixed handling of layer surfaces unmapped through a null buffer commit: they will now receive an initial configure as necessary (thanks @alex-huff). This makes the kitty quick access terminal work.
• Fixed unmapped layer surfaces pr...

Niri is a scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor. Windows are arranged in columns on an infinite strip going to the right. Opening a new window never causes existing windows to resize.

Here are the improvements from the last release.

[!NOTE] Packagers: the niri default config now spawns waybar at startup so as not to start with a blank desktop. Please...

Niri is a scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor. Windows are arranged in columns on an infinite strip going to the right. Opening a new window never causes existing windows to resize.

Here are the improvements from the last release.

[!NOTE] Packagers: I fixed the problem where some tests required RAYON_NUM_THREADS=1 on a heavily multithreaded CPU. Please remove that variable if you had...