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[NixOS] [niri] no bars needed
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- 0x0f@piefed.socialEnglish1 month
Love it, I’ve stopped using bars as well and generally feel better without the clutter.
- 1 month
Are there any ncurces-based programs that can show the info I have usually in a bar and can live in a terminal?
- 0x0f@piefed.socialEnglish1 month
Yeah, I personally use tmux to display battery information (the only thing I need) in my terminal.
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You could try configure a fetch program, like fastfetch. For network management I use the nmtui binary that comes bundled in with network manager. I know there is bluetui for bluetooth and wiremix for a basic pipewire audio mixer, but I don’t know about anything else.
- 1 month
I guess, it comes down to: What do I really need to be visible and configurable in one terminal page.
- 1 month
It’s both. Wayland is meant to be implemented in such way that the compositor is also the window manager. River is a counter example where the team decided to make an extension and decouple the compositor fron the window manager. That said niri is just a standard wayland window manager.
- 1 month
It does both jobs but they’re typically referred to as compositors. See basically any description of any project (including niri). Additionally it’s confusing because then people have to lookup if it’s X or Wayland when we have very obvious terms that we can use to distinguish implicitly
A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor
- 2 days
Sway and River both use wm as part of their URL: swaywm (see https://swaywm.org/) and riverwm (see https://github.com/riverwm). Calling them only one or the other is wrong, they’re both compositors & window managers.
Yes they do but that’s likely a vestigial remnant of X11 naming schemes. I could point out labwc, xfwl, hyprland, dwl, etc for counter examples. Yes compositors manage windows, they are not called window managers by the spec.
From the Wayland website
A Wayland server is called a “compositor”.
Additionally, there are compositors that leave window management out of their job description, I believe there are a few but the one I remember most is kiwmi which left window management to lua scripts.
Honestly I don’t really understand what’s wrong about calling them that, I do prefer calling them compositors as well, but to the untrained eye window manager is much more clear, and it’s the existential goal of a compositor anyway (in most cases at least). Just because a spec sheet doesn’t call a game engine a 3D renderer doesn’t mean a game engine is not a 3D renderer, because unless it only renders 2D, it is also a 3D renderer, if you get what I mean.
- 2 days
Though you could argue that a compositor without a window manager is useless, thus a compositor implies the presence of a window manager.
