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CachyOS Niri/Noctalia (leminal.space)
submitted 1 month ago by to c/unixporn@lemmy.ml
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cross-posted from: https://leminal.space/post/40418939

Catppuccin Mauve my beloved.

CachyOS's Niri install came pretty barebones, so it took a lot of configuring and troubleshooting, especially since it's my first time using something other than GNOME/KDE. But I'm really happy with how it turned out! The scrolling tiling behavior is really cool, and I love using workspaces. I've even come to appreciate window tabbing. Being able to apply transparency to any window is so fun.

Not sure what other details are needed that aren't present in the screenshot. Let me know if you want to know anything!

Left monitor shows file browser, terminal with fastfetch, kate text editor (with layout section of niri config open), and btop++. Right screen is empty aside from the home menu from the Noctalia top bar. Wallpaper is an illustration of a castle/temple on top of a cliff.

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[–] 2 points 1 month ago

that looks sick

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    [–] 17 points 1 month ago

    Niri is great! I like it better than Hyprland.

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    [–] 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Niri + Noctalia combo is so OP. Also using that on regular Arch. Loving it.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I definitely prefer DMS rather than Noctalia. Very well polished IMO.

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    • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I recognize Nautilus. What is the editor?

    Also, are you running it with Gnome underpinnings or are we raw-dogging Niri?

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Kate! I also mention it in the alt text for the image.

    I pretty much just fresh installed CachyOS, choosing Niri on install. I've installed a few Gnome apps like their disk manager, but this is full-on Niri (as far as my knowledge goes— which isn't very far tbf)

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    • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago* (2 children)

    I just installed Niri to replace Hyprland since they went fash recently. Got waybar and swaybg to work, and greeter works fine, but since I learned about Noctalia from this post just now, I think I'm switching to that ecosystem.

    Btw, does anyone know of where to find the file to configure color themes for Nautilus on Arch? I checked .config and .local/share already.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    I thought Nautilus just follows whatever your GTK theme is? I'm not super knowledgable though. Noctalia has a "Templates" section in their settings that lets you choose to match certain applications to your noctalia theme, which is what I've used to get nautilus to these colors.

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