Decided to try writing a Wayland compositor for fun. Took me a few days to get things going to a video-able state.
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Ivan Molodetskikhreplied to Ivan Molodetskikh on last edited by
I made a COPR for git builds of niri: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/yalter/niri-git
Apparently this is a thing you can do; relatively easily, even. It's fully automatic, triggers on a webhook from GitHub.
Thanks Michael (my4ng) from our Matrix channel for showing me the relevant docs and doing the initial work!
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Ivan Molodetskikhreplied to Ivan Molodetskikh on last edited by
niri has reached 3000 stars yesterday!
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Ivan Molodetskikhreplied to Ivan Molodetskikh on last edited by
also in an act of severe procrastination i decided to try drawing a diagram of the redraw state machine: https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/wiki/Redraw-Loop
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Ivan Molodetskikhreplied to Ivan Molodetskikh on last edited by
Spent a better part of today, but I've got dmabuf modifier negotiation fully working in my pipewire screencasting code in niri! This happens to finally fix screencasting on NVIDIA GPUs. Still haven't got any GStreamer pipeline working though, maybe needs a pipewire update.
Apparently, my AMD selects a BGRA format modifier that has two planes. Some out of band info I suppose. And on Intel a preferred BGRA modifier has three entire planes!
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Ivan Molodetskikhreplied to Ivan Molodetskikh on last edited by
My Wayland compositor, niri, turns one today! :ablobcatrave:
Here's v0.1.8 with bind key repeat, screenshot UI pointer toggle, gradient color spaces, wlr screencopy v3 and output management, and lots of other improvements: https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/releases/tag/v0.1.8
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Ivan Molodetskikhreplied to Ivan Molodetskikh on last edited by
omg, my friend drew a birthday nirik :blobcataww:
i recorded a demo video for the focus-follows-mouse section to showcase it lol
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TheDragonreplied to Ivan Molodetskikh on last edited by
@YaLTeR are there many NixOS users with public repos? Had a stab at setting it up, but feel I might benefit from being able to spend some time looking over some other people's configs if there are some out there
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@TheDragon44 @YaLTeR My config is a tiiiny bit unorthodox: the NixOS config - including the niri, ironbar, swayidle, etc configs - is generated from an org roam knowledge base. The niri parts start around here (or in the html export: here).
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Ivan Molodetskikhreplied to Ivan Molodetskikh on last edited by
Several days and a lot of hair pulling later, I *think* I got resize transactions working?? Maybe? Hopefully?
Resize transactions is when all windows that must resize together, resize together, with no mismatching frames in between. For example, all windows in a column must add up to the full screen height.
This requires correct configure acks on the client (looking at you, Blender) and very careful state update delaying and resize throttling on the compositor side.
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Ivan Molodetskikhreplied to Ivan Molodetskikh on last edited by
narrator: there was still one case where it didn't work due to a bug
okay, surely this time it definitely works for all correctly written clients
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Ivan Molodetskikhreplied to Ivan Molodetskikh last edited by
Here's one mainly for people who disable animations: window closing now runs in a transaction with the other windows resizing. This means, no background flicker.
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Ivan Molodetskikhreplied to Ivan Molodetskikh last edited by
There's been another logo discussion in the niri Matrix room with some quite interesting concepts emerging. Here's one by Endg4me_ with edits by bluelinden and myself, and inspiration from a concept by ElKowar.
What do you think?