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Niri Debuts As A Scrollable -Tiling Wayland Compositor Inspired By PaperWM (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey folks,

remember the post that was made a few months ago about an infinite canvas/scrollable WM? Here we have the stable release of a (onedirectional) scrollable one inspired by gnome's PaperWM.

Aaaand... ...it's written in Rust!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Well that could be annoying if you’re trying to scroll past an open application but you end up vertically scrolling within the application instead.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

The exact same thing would happen if you tried to scroll horizontally though? It's a 2d axis on a wheel, depending on where your focus is you're going to go the same direction.