niri
Windows are arranged in columns on an infinite strip going to the right. Opening a new window never causes existing windows to resize.
Features
Properties
- Lightweight
- Privacy focused
Features
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Ad-free
- No Tracking
- Works Offline
- No registration required
- Tiling Window Manager
- Rust
- Wayland Support
- Compositor
Tags
- smithay
- wayland-compatible
niri News & Activities
Recent News
- POX published news article about niri
Wayland compositor niri 25.11 launches with alt-tab switcher, new window animations & moreniri 25.11 brings several workflow and usability improvements to this scrollable-tiling Wayland com...
Recent activities
POX added niri as alternative to MouseTiler- added Extensible by Plugins/Extensions as a feature to niri
- POX updated niri
K0RR added niri as alternative to term.everything
niri information
What is niri?
Windows are arranged in columns on an infinite strip going to the right. Opening a new window never causes existing windows to resize.
Every monitor has its own separate window strip. Windows can never "overflow" onto an adjacent monitor.
Workspaces are dynamic and arranged vertically. Every monitor has an independent set of workspaces, and there's always one empty workspace present all the way down.
The workspace arrangement is preserved across disconnecting and connecting monitors where it makes sense. When a monitor disconnects, its workspaces will move to another monitor, but upon reconnection they will move back to the original monitor.
Features
- Scrollable tiling
- Dynamic workspaces like in GNOME
- Built-in screenshot UI
- Monitor screencasting through xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
- You can block out sensitive windows from screencasts
- Touchpad gestures
- Configurable layout: gaps, borders, struts, window sizes
- Animations
- Live-reloading config




