2025-03-15 New window manager: niri
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I'm giving niri a go. The idea is that a scrollable tiling window
manager ("Wayland compositor") is a better fit than just a tiling
window manager. For tiling window managers, I just create new stuff
and have it maximized. I really can't do the quick splitting and
rearranging that it seems to afford. The result is that I start moving
stuff to other workspaces, where they're invisible and gone. I'm
hoping that new windows popping up next to existing windows makes it
feel like a stack.

Having gone through the config file and having made a few small
changes it already feels pretty nice. Right now one of the problems I
have is that by sheer bad luck I decided to rotate my external monitor
by 90° and that doesn't work quite as well, maybe? I'm not sure. One
of the first changes I did was change the default widths from ⅓ / ½ /
⅔ to 0.95 / ⅔ / ½ with 0.95 being the default.

#Window_Managers #Niri

I didn't find a solution for Gimp. And I already had no solution for
VASSAL under Sway. So for these applications, I still have Gnome
installed.

Currently my ~/.config/fish/conf.d/window-manager.fish says:

    # If running from tty1 start sway
    set TTY (tty)
    [ "$TTY" = "/dev/tty1" ] && exec sway
    [ "$TTY" = "/dev/tty2" ] && exec startx
    [ "$TTY" = "/dev/tty3" ] && exec niri

Oh well. 😅

2025-03-19. I'm finding that there were too many problems with apps
that didn't work or had very slow startup times. So I'm back to using
Sway.