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Niri on steamdeck (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/steamdeck@lemmy.ml
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I love my Niri/Noctalia setup on my laptop. So I thought it could be a good replacement to KDE in desktop mode on the steam deck. Use one of the touchpads to scoll the tiles and desktops.

Has anyone tried it?

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[–] [S] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Ok, but wouldn't it be possible to just install niri on the existing OS and change the "exit to desktop" mode to launch niri instead? Gaming in niri wouldn't be that important while in niri because I mainly to that from the Steam GUI.

Or is the steam GUI reliant tied to KDE in some way?

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    If I recall correctly the script that goes to desktop mode explicitly starts plasma. Though I think they want to change that behaviour in SteamOS 3.8 or 3.9 to be more generic.

    The trouble is that on every update all the changes you did to system files would be removed.

    So you'd have to install Niri to your home directory and change the scripts that launch it with every update. Nothing impossible just a little bit annoying.

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