A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor. Getting Started | Configuration | Setup Showcase About Windows are arranged in columns on an infinite strip going to the right. Opening a new window never causes existing windows to resize. Every monitor has its own separate window strip. Windows can never "overflow" onto an adjacent monitor. Workspaces are dynamic and arranged vertically. Every monitor has an independent set of workspaces, and there's always one empty workspace present all the way down. The workspace arrangement is preserved across disconnecting and connecting monitors where it makes sense. When a monitor disconnects, its workspaces will move to another monitor, but upon reconnection they will move back to the original monitor. Features Video Demo demo.mp4 Also check out this video from Brodie Robertson that showcases a lot of the niri functionality: Niri Is My New Favorite Wayland Compositor Status Niri is stable for day-to-day use and does most things expected of a Wayland compositor. Many people are daily-driving niri, and are happy to help in our Matrix channel. Give it a try! Follow the instructions on the Getting Started page. Have your waybars and fuzzels ready: niri is not a complete desktop environment. Also check out awesome-niri, a list of niri-related links and projects. Here are some points you may have questions about: Multi-monitor : yes, a core part of the design from the very start. Mixed DPI works. : yes, a core part of the design from the very start. Mixed DPI works. Fractional scaling : yes, plus all niri UI stays pixel-perfect. : yes, plus all niri UI stays pixel-perfect. NVIDIA : seems to work fine. : seems to work fine. Floating windows : yes, starting from niri 25.01. : yes, starting from niri 25.01. Input devices : niri supports tablets, touchpads, and touchscreens. You can map the tablet to a specific monitor, or use OpenTabletDriver. We have touchpad gestures, but no touchscreen gestures yet. : niri supports tablets, touchpads, and touchscreens. You can map the tablet to a specific monitor, or use OpenTabletDriver. We have touchpad gestures, but no touchscreen gestures yet. Wlr protocols : yes, we have most of the important ones like layer-shell, gamma-control, screencopy. You can check on wayland.app at the bottom of each protocol's page. : yes, we have most of the important ones like layer-shell, gamma-control, screencopy. You can check on wayland.app at the bottom of each protocol's page. Performance : while I run niri on beefy machines, I try to stay conscious of performance. I've seen someone use it fine on an Eee PC 900 from 2008, of all things. : while I run niri on beefy machines, I try to stay conscious of performance. I've seen someone use it fine on an Eee PC 900 from 2008, of all things. Xwayland: integrated via xwayland-satellite starting from niri 25.08. Media niri: Making a Wayland compositor in Rust · December 2024 My talk from the 2024 Moscow RustCon about niri, and how I do randomized property testing and profiling, and measure input latency. The talk is in Russian, but I prepared full English subtitles that you can find in YouTube's subtitle language selector. An interview with Ivan, the developer behind Niri · June 2025 An interview by a German tech podcast Das Triumvirat (in English). We talk about niri development and history, and my experience building and maintaining niri. A tour of the niri scrolling-tiling Wayland compositor · July 2025 An LWN article with a nice overview and introduction to niri. Contributing If you'd like to help with niri, there are plenty of both coding- and non-coding-related ways to do so. See CONTRIBUTING.md for an overview. Inspiration Niri is heavily inspired by PaperWM which implements scrollable tiling on top of GNOME Shell. One of the reasons that prompted me to try writing my own compositor is being able to properly separate the monitors. Being a GNOME Shell extension, PaperWM has to work against Shell's global window coordinate space to prevent windows from overflowing. Tile Scrollably Elsewhere Here are some other projects which implement a similar workflow: PaperWM: scrollable tiling on top of GNOME Shell. karousel: scrollable tiling on top of KDE. scroll and papersway: scrollable tiling on top of sway/i3. hyprscrolling and hyprslidr: scrollable tiling on top of Hyprland. PaperWM.spoon: scrollable tiling on top of macOS. Contact Our main communication channel is a Matrix chat, feel free to join and ask a question: https://matrix.to/#/#niri:matrix.org We also have a community Discord server: https://discord.gg/vT8Sfjy7sx