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CachyOS + Niri and Noctalia (Update) (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/unixporn@lemmy.world
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So I ditched KDE completely since my last post. What do you think of my setup so far? I tweaked it a little, including new hotkeys and software.

Environment:

  • CachyOS
  • NiriWM
  • Noctalia (custom themed)

Extra Software (some custom shortcuts made for):

  • Satty (screenshot tool)
  • Swaylock (Customized SDDM)
  • kitty
  • Adguard-cli
  • Picocrypt (CLI)
  • Namida (music player highly recommended for Linux and Android; also works on degoogled phones).

Question: Is it strange to use SDDM with Niri? Some folks switch to another DM.

See the desktop in motion

Edit: added a .gif to show off the desktop better.

CachyOS + Niri and Noctalia, showing blue, cool colors, custom noctalia bar at the top and a dock at the bottom showing namida (music player) active. The wallpaper is a video of a red R34 in a rainy environment.
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[–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

With Niri (and other wlroots based compositors), a lot of people prefer using "greetd" instead of SDDM.

If youre on Noctalia v5, they added "greetd" integration - https://docs.noctalia.dev/v5/greeter/

If youre not - https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Greetd

I use Niri on NixOS with DMS (waiting till Noctalia v5 to be out of beta before trying it) and made the switch from sddm to greetd, and im pretty happy with it.

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