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1. Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:30:26 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

   We've reached 1000 commits 😅 with an a bit of an anticlimactic one though

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:30:21 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     Oops, looks like niri had outstarred PaperWM on GitHub 🙈

     PaperWM introduced me to (and made me fall in love with) scrollable tiling. It's a solid implementation on top of GNOME, so you get all the benefits of running a stable and well-supported DE (and Xwayland). PaperWM is also a very direct inspiration for many parts of niri!

     https://github.com/paperwm/PaperWM

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:30:21 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     Implemented the thing where you can toggle the mouse pointer on the screenshot after the fact (by pressing P). Gonna add a help panel here soon to remind you of this.

     #niri

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:30:21 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     Much better

     #niri

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:30:22 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     Fixed transparency support. Turns out the BGRA format should've been in a separate pod, rather than as a choice in the same pod. Should've looked at Mutter code sooner as usual..

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:30:22 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     niri v0.1.7 is out with fractional scaling, window screencasts and many smaller improvements!

     https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/releases/tag/v0.1.7

     #niri #smithay #wayland #rust

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:30:22 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     Apparently there's a cool Pango flag that enables subpixel glyph positioning which makes things scale smoother and improves kerning! Thanks Benjamin (the GTK maintainer) for the suggestion

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:30:23 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     Phew, finished the initial implementation of window screencasting in niri! Complete with stream resolution change on window resizing.

     Some details are still iffy regarding frame timing and frame callbacks, especially to obscured windows, but it *should* work decently fine for now.

     #niri

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:30:23 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     Icons are missing in the portal dialog because apparently Shell keeps track of Wayland app ID to .desktop file mapping internally and returns the .desktop file name to the portal for it to get the icon. Which is a bit too much effort for me to replicate for now. 😅

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:30:24 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     Over the past few weeks I've been working on fractional scaling for niri. A simple implementation took about a day, but to do it *properly* I had to refactor the entire layout code to work in floating-point.

     The result is well worth it though. Borders, gaps and windows are always physical-pixel aligned, and not restricted to integer logical pixel positions. There's no blur or position-dependent +-1 px jank. Fractional-scale-aware clients remain crisp at any scale.

     #niri #smithay

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:30:24 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     So it turns out that changing PipeWire screencast stream resolution on the fly is actually not that hard! Which is great news because it's required (or at least very desirable) for implementing window screencasting.

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:30:25 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     Okay, time for an actually useful feature: interactive mouse resizing (yes, finally). This was, as it goes, quite fiddly to implement, especially since niri has to negotiate with the window during the process.

     I also added a double-resize-click (i.e. trigger a resize twice quickly) gesture to reset the window height or to toggle full width. Suggested by FreeFull on our Matrix and worked out very well! Really starting to feel quite nice with mouse.

     (still no transactions yet)

     #niri

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:30:25 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     nvim really taking its time processing all this 1000 Hz worth of resizing lol

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:30:25 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     Since I'm in a mouse gesture mood today: hooked up the horizontal touchpad swipe to Mod + middle mouse drag and omg it feels so good with the spring deceleration and all

     (of course it also correctly avoids the touchpad scaling, so that when using the mouse gesture, the cursor location is always exactly anchored to the view position)

     #niri

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:30:25 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     Now for something fun. I'm experimenting with the ability to set custom shaders for animations. Today I added custom shader support for window-close, which lets me make this cool falling down animation!

     This is entirely optional of course, and there's no performance impact if you don't use it. Also, custom shaders, like the rest of the niri config, are live-reloaded, making it easy to play around with them.

     #niri

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:30:25 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     Been fixing quite a bit of interactive resize jank and other small stuff since the last time, but also added custom shader support for window-open, thus completing it for all three main window animations (open, close, resize).

     Now I didn't actually have any good idea of what I might want in a window open custom shader (I like the default), so I made a simple expanding circle animation to showcase it.

     #niri

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:30:25 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     Niri 0.1.6 with interactive window resizing, rounded corners, named workspaces, mouse view scrolling, animation custom shaders, screen transition!

     https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/releases/tag/v0.1.6

     Didn't realize quite how many release notes there would be this time; even had to use an extra level of headings. 😅

     #niri #smithay #rust #wayland

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:30:26 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     Another tricky feature, rounded corners! Took several days, but I believe I've got a pretty complete implementation.

     You (manually) set the window corner radius and whether to force-clip the window. You can set radius per-corner to match GTK 3 apps. It works correctly with subsurfaces, blocked-out windows, transparency, gradient borders, resize and other animations.

     Optimization-wise, opaque regions and even overlay plane unredirection work where possible!

     #niri #smithay

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:30:26 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     Also, we've now got a little #niri setup showcase thread :blobcat: https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/discussions/325

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:30:26 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     Added (stole from GNOME Shell as usual) a screen transition action, so now I can finally switch between dark and light in style

     (of course, it works with blocked-out windows)

     #niri

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:31:08 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     • Pajn

     Over the past 2 weeks I've been slowly but surely working on the interactive move niri PR [1] by @pajn. It's already got me to fix quite a bit of tech debt in the layout code, which is cool.

     The PR is still rough around the edges, but mostly works, and I switched to running the branch on my own systems to give it thorough testing.

     (also no, this is not the Floating Layer yet, though it's a good step towards that)

     Attaching a video of what it looks like rn

     [1]: https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/pull/547

     #niri

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:31:08 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     Made interactive move work on touch (and resize too while I was at it), didn't need that many changes actually

     #niri

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:31:08 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     Added a bit of rubberbanding before the window is "dragged out" of the layout. Should help avoid unintended layout changes.

     Along with a few more fixes I did, I think interactive move should be good to merge? It's not 100% perfect and jank free, but I'm fairly sure I got all the important things done. Will give it some more testing.

     #niri

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:31:08 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     Suddenly, @drakulix showcasing the Cosmic session running on, among other compositors, niri! On the big screen at the Ubuntu Summit 😄

     https://github.com/Drakulix/cosmic-ext-extra-sessions

     #niri

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:31:08 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     somehow this touch moving under stationary pointer works better than i expected

     (yes trying to do a precise left click with an elbow was difficult)

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:31:08 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     By the way! I'll be giving a talk at RustCon in Moscow on December, 6! :ablobcatwave:

     https://rustcon.ru/

     Wherein I will briefly describe what a Wayland compositor is, and then show several testing and profiling workflows that I've been using to keep niri stable, robust and performant.

     (The invitation to submit a talk was completely unexpected, guess niri found its way into the right eyes. 😅)

     There will be a recording, though in Russian.

     #rust #niri

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:31:09 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     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.

     #niri

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:31:09 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     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

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:31:09 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     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.

     #niri

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:31:09 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     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?

     #niri

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:31:09 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     I'm working on an "event stream" IPC for niri where you get notified about events as they happen. For example, "workspace switched" or "keyboard layout changed".

     To give it a good test, I actually started implementing native niri support in Waybar. You can give it a try too: https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/pull/453#issuecomment-2317110904

     #niri

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:31:09 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     I finished the initial event stream IPC implementation for niri. My Waybar fork implements a decent amount of the modules niri/workspaces, niri/window, niri/language. Please give that a try, also anyone who makes IPC scripts or bars please give a try to the event stream IPC itself so we can find any design flaws before merging.

     The PR you will need: https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/pull/453#issuecomment-2321730996

     Waybar fork is linked from there.

     #niri

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:31:09 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     The other day, Christian Meissl finished updating and publishing the libdisplay-info bindings [1]. This is quite exciting because, unlike edid-rs, it can parse the manufacturer/model/serial from pretty much any monitor.

     So, today I spend a few hours integrating the manufacturer/model/serial monitor addressing all throughout niri: config, IPC, niri msg, screencast output selector. You should now be able to write/use "SomeCompany CoolMonitor 1234" everywhere!

     [1]: https://lib.rs/crates/libdisplay-info

     #niri

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:31:09 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     Set up CI rustdoc publishing for niri-ipc: https://yalter.github.io/niri/niri_ipc/

     This has the entirety of the niri IPC documented, including the new event stream events.

     #niri

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:31:09 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     After the Waybar maintainer speedran merging my niri modules and releasing, I would feel bad delaying any longer, so here's niri 0.1.9 :)

     Event stream IPC for bars, better window resizing, properly named outputs, on-demand VRR, out-of-the-box fix for NVIDIA flickering, and other improvements!

     https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/releases/tag/v0.1.9

     #niri #smithay #wayland #rust

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:31:09 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     wtf did I Just Make

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:31:10 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     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!

     #niri

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:31:10 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     niri has reached 3000 stars yesterday!

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:31:10 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     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

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:31:10 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     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!

     #niri #pipewire

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:31:10 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     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

     #niri #smithay #wayland #rust

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:31:10 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     omg, my friend drew a birthday nirik :blobcataww:

     i recorded a demo video for the focus-follows-mouse section to showcase it lol

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:31:11 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     key repeat + scrollable tiling = fun

     #niri

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:31:11 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     One of the niri users has contributed a gradient interpolation color space setting! Now you can do pretty gradient borders in srgb-linear, oklab and oklch (in all four hue directions).

     #niri

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:33:15 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     After a full day of writing release notes (god how'd it take so long 😫), niri v25.01 is out with Floating Windows and Working Layer-Shell Desktop Icons and Layer-Shell Screencast Blocking Out and so many more improvements! Yes, you read that right, we finally escaped zerover! I feel that niri is now ready to graduate from v0.1 :ablobcatbongo:

     Read here and download when your distribution package updates: https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/releases/tag/v25.01

     #niri #smithay #wayland #rust

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:33:16 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     • Xfce
     • LXQt-Project

     I spent today figuring out the remaining layer-shell keyboard focus problems, and I've got it all working! Pop-ups now render above windows, and bottom/background layers can receive on-demand focus.

     Effectively, this makes the desktop icons components from @LXQt or @xfce just work on niri!

     #niri

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:33:16 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     Alright, I think I got all of the important things in for the next niri release. Today I updated Smithay for the DRM compositor changes, and added a workaround for a panic when you have two monitors with exactly matching make/model/serial.

     I'll give it a week of testing (if you run niri-git, please report any problems) and if all goes well, tag next Saturday.

     There are a few PRs I'll try to review in time, but they're fairly self contained.

     #niri

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:33:17 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     The big 1215 snapshot test powerset (actually it already grew to 1695) continues to prove its worth. Just finished a big +495 -508 cleanup of the window opening code, and verified that not a single of those 1215 window opening configurations changed its outcome. I will be sleeping well tonight

     #niri

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:33:17 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     After three weeks of hard work, I am undrafting the floating window PR in niri. Please give it thorough testing and report any bugs or issues!

     https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/pull/871

     #niri

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:33:17 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     Early happy new year! 🎉

     Thanks to everyone who helped with testing and ideas!

     #niri

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:33:18 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     While trying to make this work, I realized that this is the time when I *really really* want to be able to test this stuff. So I got on a sidetrack adventure to write testing infra for running real Wayland clients inside unit tests.

     I've got it working! In these tests, I'm creating a new niri instance along with test clients, all on the same test-local event loop. No global state, no threads needed.

     What's really cool is that this lets me test the weirdest client-server event timings.

     #niri

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:33:18 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     This morning I worked on remembering the size for floating windows when they go to the tiling layout and back.

     The whole sizing code must be at the top by logic complexity in niri. I have to juggle, all at once:

     - new size I haven't sent to the window yet,
     - size changes I sent, but window hasn't acked yet (0, 1, or more in-flight),
     - size change window acked but hasn't committed for yet,
     - size change window acked and responded to with a commit (maybe with a different size entirely).

     #niri

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:33:18 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     The diff is 85 lines of change and 243 lines of new tests, and I already found a few weirder edge cases that I've missed. No way I could do this well without that client-server testing setup that I posted about yesterday.

     Btw I pushed the testing setup if you're curious, along with the entirety of 1215 snapshot files for a powerset of new window workspace/output target settings: https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/commit/771ea1e81557ffe7af9cbdbec161601575b64d81

     The WIP floating branch caused them to update in several commits already.

     #niri

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:33:19 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     Another piece of the floating puzzle: keeping windows on screen. When you change your monitor scale or resolution, you don't want your floating windows to suddenly go unreachable behind the monitor's new borders.

     Here I'm resizing a nested niri with three windows, simulating resolution changes. No matter what I do, they always remain partially visible and reachable. Even for more unusual cases like trying to resize a window into out of bounds.

     #niri

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:33:19 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     In the tiling layout, niri is constantly asking windows to assume their expected size. In contrast, floating windows should be able to freely change size as they see fit.

     The logic turns out to be quite tricky. On the one hand we want a window to keep its latest size, but on the other we still want to be able to resize the window, which means asking it for a different size. The window can take a second to respond, or respond with a yet another size, and nothing must break.

     #niri

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:33:20 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     hmm

     #niri

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:33:20 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     unusual sights

     #niri

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:33:20 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     Turns out, there's a lot of details to get right when implementing a floating window space. For example, dialog windows should always show above their parent window. Otherwise, it's easy to lose them under the (usually much bigger) parent.

     The WIP floating branch in niri now handles this properly, even for xdg-desktop-portal dialogs (like file chooser) as long as the app correctly parents them via xdg-foreign.

     #niri

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:33:21 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     Today I merged a PR by FluxTape which adds "always empty workspace before first" to niri. At the surface this is just a simple config flag with obvious behavior, but it's actually full of edge cases! Things like which workspace to focus at startup. The code refers to workspaces by index in many places, and those all shift when you suddenly insert an empty workspace at index 0.

     Took several days to catch them all even with our randomized tests, but I think it should be good now.

     #niri

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:33:21 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     >did a +4,657 −4,237 refactor in the layout code
     >while testing, already found two uncaught regressions introduced in previous niri releases, and no issues with the refactor

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:33:21 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     This morning was my niri (-adjacent) talk! :ablobcatbongo: Went really well, got many interesting questions!

     They promised us video recordings in a few days, so I'll post a link when I get it. Though of course the talk is in Russian.

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:33:22 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     Somehow, a small change for tests escalated into trying to completely refactor how animation timing works in niri. And right now I find myself at the exact opposite of this picture. Unfortunately, time has not stopped and is causing problems

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:33:22 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     Like three complete refactors later, I think it's... working? For real this time? No weird issue is gonna sneak up that undermines the whole design?

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:33:22 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     Nothing seems to have caught on fire after one more day of personal testing and one more day in main. So here's a technical page I wrote about the the new niri animation timing design and its motivations: https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/wiki/Animation-Timing

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:33:23 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     We hit 4000 stars today on the niri repo!! :ablobcatheartsqueeze:

     #niri

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:33:23 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     Thanks to Christian Meissl's fix in Smithay, the git version of niri correctly shows nested pop-up menus in lxqt-panel. They also submitted a fix for invalid pop-up spawning to ironbar, which makes it work on Smithay compositors.

     #niri #lxqt

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:33:24 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     Interactive window moving, laptop lid and tablet mode switch binds, mouse and touchpad scroll speed setting in today's niri v0.1.10 release!

     https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/releases/tag/v0.1.10

     Also, niri-ipc is now on crates.io, but keep in mind that it will not be Rust-semver-stable: https://crates.io/crates/niri-ipc

     #wayland #smithay #rust #niri

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:33:24 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     Added scaffolding for layer rules, along with a block-out-from rule. Now you can finally block notifications from screencasts!

     Though, layer-shell surfaces don't have a "geometry" so if they have shadows or transparent padding, all of that becomes solid black, since niri has no way to know where the "actual content" of the layer surface is (that's what geometry is for windows).

     #niri

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:39:10 JST minute

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     • Rahul Roshan

     @YaLTeR @r4hulrosh4n nice!

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:39:11 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     Looking for testing and feedback for server-side shadows: https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/pull/990

     #niri

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:39:11 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     • Rahul Roshan

     ppl from our niri matrix playing around with the new compositor-side shadows! These screenshots are from @r4hulrosh4n and calops (no fedi)

     #niri

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:39:12 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     something odd about these windows

     #niri

   • Ivan Molodetskikh (yalter@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:39:12 JST Ivan Molodetskikh

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     this is a completely normal screenshot. nothing unusual here

     #niri