niri is a scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor. This is a curated list of resources related to niri.
Please read the contributing guidelines before contributing to this list.
- Help and Discussion
- Packages
- Tools
- Scripts
- Custom Shaders
- Bars and Widgets
- Custom Shells
- DE Integration
- Distro Integration
- Rices and OOTB Setups
- niri Wiki - The official wiki, containing installation instructions and usage guides.
- niri Matrix Channel - The official Matrix channel, where you can ask questions and get help from the community.
- niri Discord server - A community maintained Discord server.
- niri subreddit - A community driven subreddit.
- Community Packages - A list of community maintained packages for niri.
- niri Flake - A Nix flake to conveniently install and manage niri on NixOS.
- Anyrun - A Wayland native krunner-like runner, made with customizability in mind. Provides niri-focus plugin.
- hyprlax - Smooth parallax wallpaper daemon.
- IIO-Niri - Listen to iio-sensor-proxy and update niri output orientation depending on the accelerometer orientation.
- NASW - Automatically switch audio based on active windows.
- nfsm - Fullscreen manager.
- niri-companion - A toolkit that adds extra functionality.
- niri-empty - Execute a shell command when focusing an empty workspace.
- niri-float-sticky - A utility to make floating windows visible across all workspaces — similar to "sticky windows" in other compositors.
- niri-scratchpad - Scratchpad support.
- niri-scratchpad-rs - Dynamic scratchpads.
- niri-screen-time - A utility that collects information about how much time you spend in each application.
- niri-session-manager - Automatically save and restore windows.
- niri-settings - Basic configuration GUI for niri config.
- niri-switch - A fast task switcher — similar to Alt-Tab known from Windows, Gnome, KDE Plasma etc1.
- niri-tag - A single workspace, tag-based window management system featuring full IPC for shell integrations.
- nirimap - A minimal workspace minimap overlay.
- nirinit - Session manager that automatically saves and restores your window layout.
- Nirius - Utility commands.
- nsticky - A utility to make windows visible across all workspaces.
- pandora - Parallax-scrolling wallpaper daemon for Wayland.
- Stasis - A modern Wayland idle manager with smart timeouts, media awareness, and app-specific inhibition.
- swaytreesave - CLI to save and load your compositors tree/layout.
- system76-scheduler-niri - A simple daemon to update the foreground process of system76-scheduler based on the focused window.
- vim-niri-nav - Seamless navigation between niri windows and (neo)vim splits with the same key bindings.
- wayvid - A dynamic video wallpaper engine for Wayland compositors.
- ndrop - Emulate tdrop.
- niri tweaks - A collection of scripts. Notably includes a script which allows tiling N windows before scrolling new ones.
- niri-scripts - A collection of scripts. Notably allows setting wallpaper per workspace.
- Nirimation - A host for custom shaders to be used as animations.
- bar-rs - A simple status bar, written using iced-rs.
- eww-niri-workspaces - A Rust binary that outputs workspace information from niri-ipc to be consumed by eww.
- i3bar-river - A port of i3bar for Wayland compositors, to be used with something like i3status-rust.
- Ignis - A widget framework for building desktop shells, written and configurable in Python.
- Ironbar - A customisable Wayland GTK bar written in Rust.
- Niri Taskbar - Provides a Waybar taskbar module for niri.
- niri_window_buttons - A Waybar module for displaying and managing traditional window buttons.
- Waybar - Highly customizable Wayland bar based on GTK.
- waybar-niri-windows - A module for Waybar that displays a focus indicator for the current workspace.
- DankMaterialShell - Quickshell based shell featuring Material 3 design principles, with a heavy focus on functionality and customizability.
- Delta Shell - A desktop shell based on AGS with many features.
- desktop-shell - Custom AGS shell for Wayland compositors supporting wayland-layer-shell.
- Exo - A Material 3 inspired desktop shell created with Ignis.
- IgnisNiriShell - An Ignis based shell.
- ii on Niri - end-4's quickshell config modified to work with niri.
- niri-caelestia-shell - Port of caelestia dots Quickshell setup for niri.
- Noctalia - A sleek and minimal desktop shell built with Quickshell.
- qml-niri - A QML plugin for interacting with niri via its IPC protocol.
- niri on Cosmic - A Cosmic extension that allows niri as a session option, allowing you to use niri with the Cosmic desktop environment.
- niri on LXQt - LXQt is a lightweight Qt-based desktop environment that allows setting niri as compositor, while its modules can also be used standalone in
niri-session.
- CachyOS - An Arch Linux based distribution focused around gaming, performance, and being user-friendly. It provides niri as an install option via its installer.
- Pika OS - PikaOS is a Debian sid based Linux distribution focused on gaming and performance optimization, which provides a niri edition ISO.
- Setup Showcase - A showcase of niri setups, where users can share their configurations and get inspiration from others.
- OOTB setups - A collection of out-of-the-box niri configurations that can be easily installed to get a fully functional setup quickly.
Footnotes
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As of release 25.11, niri has a built-in window switcher. ↩
