- Update to version 25.11:
+ Added Alt-Tab recent-windows switcher, with live window
previews and title fading for long titles.
windows blocked out from screencasts now appear as
black rectangles with titles hidden
+ niri IPC now exposes `focus_timestamp` and an event stream,
enabling external tools to access the recent-windows list.
+ Added animated transitions for entering/leaving fullscreen:
black backdrop fade and smooth rounded-corner clipping.
+ Added “true maximize” mode allowing windows to occupy the full
work area without gaps or struts.
+ New horizontal-scroll gesture:
dragging a tiled window’s titlebar horizontally scrolls
the view; two-finger tap toggles floating/tiling.
+ Per-output and per-workspace layout configuration:
`layout {}` sections can live inside `output {}` or
`workspace "name" {}`.
+ Added config includes:
configurations can now be split using `include
"file.kdl"`.
+ Support for DisplayLink external-display docks.
+ Reduced screen blanking when starting or switching from TTY.
+ Added custom output modes/modelines for monitors with
incomplete EDID.
+ Accessibility improvements:
corrected signalling of keyboard modifiers; Alt-Tab
switcher is now screen-reader friendly.
+ Numerous bug fixes:
- improved window commit tracking
- fixed layer-shell/Qt/GTK popup ordering
- fixed DMA-BUF importing for v4l2
- improved animations and screenshot behaviour
- touch device calibration fixes
- scroll event handling fixes
- DRM/GPU device stability improvements
- layer-shell v5 support
- XWayland stability and behaviour improvements
- Remove libspa-0.8.0-compat.patch: unneeded anymore
- Back use vendor and source from github release
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1320559
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/openSUSE:Factory/niri?expand=0&rev=17
- Update to version 25.11:
+ Added Alt-Tab recent-windows switcher, with live window
previews and title fading for long titles.
commit: windows blocked out from screencasts now appear as
black rectangles with titles hidden
+ niri IPC now exposes `focus_timestamp` and an event stream,
enabling external tools to access the recent-windows list.
+ Added animated transitions for entering/leaving fullscreen:
black backdrop fade and smooth rounded-corner clipping.
+ Added “true maximize” mode allowing windows to occupy the full
work area without gaps or struts.
+ New horizontal-scroll gesture:
commit: dragging a tiled window’s titlebar horizontally scrolls
the view; two-finger tap toggles floating/tiling.
+ Per-output and per-workspace layout configuration:
commit: `layout {}` sections can live inside `output {}` or
`workspace "name" {}`.
+ Added config includes:
commit: configurations can now be split using `include
"file.kdl"`.
+ Support for DisplayLink external-display docks.
+ Reduced screen blanking when starting or switching from TTY.
+ Added custom output modes/modelines for monitors with incomplete EDID.
+ Accessibility improvements:
commit: corrected signalling of keyboard modifiers; Alt-Tab switcher is now screen-reader friendly.
+ Numerous bug fixes:
- improved window commit tracking
- fixed layer-shell/Qt/GTK popup ordering
- fixed DMA-BUF importing for v4l2
- improved animations and screenshot behaviour
- touch device calibration fixes
- scroll event handling fixes
- DRM/GPU device stability improvements
- layer-shell v5 support
- XWayland stability and behaviour improvements
- Remove libspa-0.8.0-compat.patch: unneeded anymore
- Back use vendor and source from github release
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1320556
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/X11:Wayland/niri?expand=0&rev=43
- Bump open file ulimit for test suite
gh#YaLTeR/niri#2377
- Add libspa-0.8.0-compat.patch
Fixes build with recent PipeWire
gh#YaLTeR/niri#2728
- Update to version 25.08+135:
* layout: Find preset width for new columns
* Avoid triggering hot corner during some grabs
* tty: Fix cast for aarch64
* tty: Move HDR property reset to session resume
* tty: Tone down some property setting messages
* Update Smithay (linear dmabuf import fix, damage shaper
overflow fix, popup focus fix)
* Pin tracing-subscriber to 0.3.19
* Add support for custom modes and modelines.
gh#YaLTeR/niri#2479
* feat: event-stream event for when a screenshot is taken
gh#YaLTeR/niri#2565
* config: fix parsing of XF86ScreenSaver key
* Create parents of screenshots directory
* docs: describe screen mirroring with wl-mirror
gh#YaLTeR/niri#2633
* Use `AsFd` to get rid of re-borrowing of zbus Power Key fd
* backend/tty: Consider only primary node in drm udev event
* Add --path argument for niri msg screenshot* commands
gh#YaLTeR/niri#2126
* Add login1 LidClosed monitoring
* feat(move-floating-window): percentage change
gh#YaLTeR/niri#2371
* Redraw cursor if hidden during screenshot
* wiki: fix list in tab-indicator section
* tty: Retry adding device on change
* tty: Improve debug messages
* wiki: Mention windowed fullscreen on fullscreen and maximize
page
* wiki: Add missing Since annotations
* wiki: Document fullscreen and maximize
* layout: Make resizing actions unmaximize
* Implement maximize-to-edges (true Wayland maximize)
* layout/monitor: Make between-workspace insert hint narrower
* layout/tile: Fade out border for fullscreen
* layout/tile: Fade out shadow for fullscreen
* layout/tile: Fade out focus ring for fullscreen
* layout: Fix anim jump when releasing interactive move in the
overview
* layout: Unfullscreen before removing for interactive move
* tests/floating: Add more edge cases
* Add topic regarding managing external displays using Kanshi to
FAQ
* Upgrade dependencies
* Support calibration-matrix in touch input config
* wiki: Recommend pick-window instead of focused-window
* config: Rename tracy span parse => decode config file
* tty: Add support for disabling DRM devices
* tty: Close DRM device session fd in device_removed()
* wiki/include: Document border special case
* wiki: Document config includes
* config: Add a nicer error for recursive includes
* config: Add merging for Input
* config: Add merging for Animations
* config: Add merging for Gestures
* config: Add merging for misc sections
* config: Add merging for Debug
* config: Add merging for SwitchBinds
* utils/watcher: Support config includes
* Partially implement config includes
* wiki: Document per-output and per-workspace layout overrides
* Add layout overrides to window_opening test
* layout/monitor: Fix wrong Clone/Copy generic bounds
* Add per-output layout config
* Add per-workspace layout config
* FAQ: Mention how to escape from a dead screen locker
* FAQ: Mention directly opening in column,
and focus-follows-mouse on monitor edges
* config: Fix discrepancy in default shadow color
* config: Fix inability to override
border/focus-ring/tab-indicator gradient with color in window
rules
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1315204
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/X11:Wayland/niri?expand=0&rev=41
- Update to version 25.05.1:
* Fixed handling of layer surfaces unmapped through a null buffer
commit: they will now receive an initial configure as necessary
This makes the kitty quick access terminal work.
* Fixed unmapped layer surfaces preventing popups from appearing.
* Fixed brief hover events when the cursor is hidden.
* Renamed un/set/toggle-urgent to un/set/toggle-window-urgent,
their intended name. This was my oversight.
* Fixed screen not always redrawing on niri msg set-window-urgent
and other urgency actions.
* Fixed numlock activating only after pressing another modifier
key.
* Fixed incorrect reporting of tablet pen tilt.
* Fixed certain clients like fcitx causing frequent keyboard
keymap events to clients.
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1280350
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/X11:Wayland/niri?expand=0&rev=35
- Update to version 25.05:
* Add feature to zooms out your workspaces and windows to let you
see what's going on at a glance, navigate, and drag windows
around, all without having to touch the keyboard.
* Add new features for screencasting and screensharing
* Add features for Windowed fullscreen
* Add screenshot UI support tablet and touchscreen input for
drawing the selection, closing this long-standing gap.
* Add features Window urgency
* Add new IPC functionality.
- Add waybar Recommends: default bar for niri
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1278174
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/X11:Wayland/niri?expand=0&rev=31
- Update to version 0.1.10.1:
* Fixed scrolling not working when the mouse {} or touchpad {}
section is omitted from the config file.
* Made the mouse cursor show up on scroll which makes scrolling
work when the cursor was hidden.
* Fixed a crash when holding Space in the screenshot UI.
* Bound touch-dragging with held Mod to interactive window move.
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1223916
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/X11:Wayland/niri?expand=0&rev=23
- Update to version 0.1.8
* Add gradient border color spaces
* Add Screenshot UI pointer toggle
* Improvements key repeat for all binds
* Improvements Focus-follows-mouse
* Implemented the wlr-output-management protocol
* Add supported wlr-screencopy version 3
* Implemented a small change to allow strut config values to go
negative
* Implemented the full DMA-BUF modifier negotiation procedure for
PipeWire screencasts
* Implemented on-demand keyboard focus mode for layer-shell
surfaces, which is used by some newer bar applications
* Added focus-window-or-monitor-{up,down} actions
* Added move-column-left-or-to-monitor-left and
move-column-right-or-to-monitor-right actions
* Added a middle-emulation flag to touchpad, mouse, and
trackpoint settings
* Added a background-color option to outputs that sets the color
of the default niri solid background.
* Added Mod3/ISO_Level5_Shift modifier support to key bindings
* Enabled sub-pixel glyph positioning for better kerning in
niri panels
* Added a profile-with-tracy-ondemand build feature that
produces a build with on-demand Tracy profiler integration,
which you can run as your main compositor and only attach the
profiler when needed
* VRR state (whether VRR is on or off for an output) is now
correctly restored upon TTY switch into niri
* Fixed view scroll animation sometimes restarting on switching
focus when the target view position does not change
* Fixed a rare crash that could happen when reconnecting monitors
with a KVM switch
* Removed the enable-color-transformations-capability debug
config flag
* Powered-off monitors no longer turn on upon connecting a new
monitor
* added optional JSON schema generation to the niri-ipc crate
using schemars.
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1193140
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/X11:Wayland/niri?expand=0&rev=16
- Update to version 0.1.7
* The big update this time is fractional scale support. You can
set output scale to fractional values like 1.5 and automatic
scale factor guessing will now return fractional scale factors.
* niri layout now completely operates in floating-point. While
fractional scaling benefits the most from this, fractional
layout is also useful for integer scales.
* You can now select an individual window to screencast through
xdg-desktop-portal-gnome. You can resize windows, open pop-ups,
use block-out rules, and it will all work correctly.
* implemented the xdg-activation-v1 protocol which allows apps to
pass focus to other apps.
* added the vertical drag gesture to switch workspaces, just like
on a touchpad you can swipe both horizontally and vertically.
* Added four actions focus-window-{up,down}-or-column-{left,right}
which allow traversing all windows on a workspace in order.
* Added actions focus-column-right-or-first, focus-column-left-or-
last which allow the focus to loop around.
* Added actions focus-column-or-monitor-left and focus-column-or-
monitor-right that switch the monitor upon reaching the end of
the workspace.
* Added niri msg focused-output which returns information about
the currently focused output.
* Added off flag to disable input devices.
* Added left-handed flag to touchpad, mouse, tablet input config.
* Added scroll-method property to touchpad, mouse, trackpoint
input config.
* Added disabled-on-external-mouse flag to touchpad input config.
* Niri now additionally reads the config file path from
$NIRI_CONFIG, to help with nix wrappers. The --config flag
still takes precedence.
* Changed absolute pointer input to work over a union rectangle
across all outputs, rather than picking a single output.
* Changed tablet input without a specific map-to-output to map to
a union rectangle across all outputs. This makes Open Tablet
Driver work.
* Changed foreign-toplevel (i.e. Waybar) window activation to
animate the workspace switch.
* Fixed focus-window-or-workspace-{up,down} missing the workspace
switch animation.
* Fixed empty named workspaces disappearing upon output removal.
* Fixed a crash when an (already unfullscreened) window that in a
column with other windows requests to be unfullscreened.
* Fixed key repeat not working when the keyboard config section is
missing.
* Fixed some crashes when no outputs are connected. On some devices
outputs reconnect themselves upon resuming from sleep, which was
triggering these issues.
* Fixed rounded corners rendering blurry on very high scale factors.
* Fixed the automatic draw border with background check to also
include the KDE decoration protocol value. This makes it work for
some older clients like GTK 3 (thanks @kchibisov).
* Fixed ISO_Level3_Shift modifier not showing up in the Important
Hotkeys list.
* Niri now increases the fd limit to the maximum, fixing some
fd-heavy clients (e.g. running RustRover in Xwayland).
* Updated Smithay, which fixes running on the NVIDIA 555 driver
(explicit sync is still not implemented for now).
- Enable arch i586 again
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1183971
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/X11:Wayland/niri?expand=0&rev=14
- Update to version 0.1.6
* added mouse gestures for resizing and scrolling the view.
* added declare named workspaces in the config.
* IPC Improvements.
* added new window rules and new debugging features.
* added feature rounded Window Corners.
* added a do-screen-transition action which lets you switch
between light and dark, or between different themes.
- add script test
- exclude arch i586: error linking with gcc-13
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1175052
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/X11:Wayland/niri?expand=0&rev=12
- Update to version 0.1.5
* A big focus in this release was on animations. I've animated
many more actions: window movement, resizing, and closing.
* Spring animations are now more robust: values and durations are
clamped more aggressively where it makes sense.
* Niri now has basic variable refresh rate (VRR) support.
* IPC improvements
* Added an allow-when-locked=true flag for spawn key bindings
that makes them work when the session is locked.
* Previous view position is now restored upon unfullscreening a
window.
* The SIGPIPE handler is now set to default in niri msg to
prevent panic backtraces from showing up when stdout is closed.
* The mouse cursor is now hidden upon touchscreen interaction.
* Corrected some DRM leasing behavior to fix crashes when DRM
leasing is unavailable and better handle hotplugging.
* Added an ease-out-quad easing curve.
* Fixed warp-mouse-to-focus not triggering when a window is
closed by unmapping its buffer.
* Fixed the horizontal touchpad gesture redrawing continuously
rather than only on touchpad events.
* Fixed overdamped spring instability being able to crash the
compositor.
* Added a microphone mute example bind to the default config.
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1169427
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/X11:Wayland/niri?expand=0&rev=10
