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I Finally Tried Niri, The New Way Of Tiling Linux Users Are Going Crazy About<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/itsfoss.com\/niri-window-manager\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-06-23 04:19:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: itsfoss.com<\/a><\/p>\n

When I first heard about Niri,<\/strong> a Rust-powered, scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor with a supposedly different take on window management, I was both skeptical and intrigued. <\/p>\n

But after a few weeks of daily driving it and pairing it with the excellent Dank Linux desktop suite, I have a lot to say.<\/p>\n

What Exactly Is Niri?<\/h2>\n

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Niri is not your typical tiling window manager. It describes itself as a “scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor,” and that one word, scrollable changes everything.<\/p>\n

Traditional tiling WMs like i3 or Sway divide your screen into a fixed grid. Every time you open a new window, all the existing ones get reshuffled and resized. If you have ever lost track of your editor because Firefox decided to squish it into a 200-pixel-wide column, you know exactly how jarring that can be.<\/p>\n

Niri works differently. Windows are arranged in columns on an infinite horizontal strip that extends to the right. Opening a new window never causes existing windows to resize. You simply scroll sideways to bring other windows into view, much like flipping through pages on a tablet.<\/p>\n

\"NiriScrollable tiling example in Niri (screenshot from their GitHub repo)<\/span><\/p>\n

The project is inspired by PaperWM, a GNOME Shell extension that brings scrollable tiling to GNOME. The motivation behind writing a standalone compositor, rather than another GNOME extension, was to isolate workspaces per monitor properly. With Niri, each display has its own discrete set of workspaces that never bleed into one another.<\/p>\n

And crucially, it is written entirely in Rust. Which could be a deciding point for some.<\/p>\n

Installing Niri<\/h2>\n

Niri’s availability varies across distributions. I found it packaged on Fedora, Arch Linux, and Ubuntu. <\/p>\n

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I’m using Ubuntu 26.04 VM to test the full Niri window manager experience. For virtualization, I’m using QEMU\/KVM along with virt-manager GUI.<\/p>\n

If you are on Ubuntu, you will need to install it from a custom PPA or build it from source.<\/p>\n

On Ubuntu 25.10 and above, there…<\/p>\n

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