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## Features
- Scrollable tiling
- Built from the ground up for scrollable tiling
- Dynamic workspaces like in GNOME
- Built-in screenshot UI
- Monitor and window screencasting through xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
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## Status
A lot of the essential functionality is implemented, plus some goodies on top.
Feel free to give niri a try: follow the instructions on the [Getting Started](https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/wiki/Getting-Started) wiki page.
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](https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/wiki/Getting-Started) wiki page.
Have your [waybar]s and [fuzzel]s ready: niri is not a complete desktop environment.
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.
- **Fractional scaling**: yes, plus all niri UI stays pixel-perfect.
- **NVIDIA**: seems to work fine.
- **Floating windows**: yes, starting from the next release.
- **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.
- **Wlr protocols**: yes, we have most of the important ones like layer-shell, gamma-control, screencopy.
You can check on [wayland.app](https://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.
- **Xwayland**: no built-in support, but xwayland-satellite is [easy to set up](https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/wiki/Xwayland#using-xwayland-satellite) and works very well.
- Steam and games, including Proton: work perfectly through xwayland-satellite.
- JetBrains IDEs, Ghidra: work well through xwayland-satellite.
- Discord and other Electron apps: work well through xwayland-satellite.
- Chromium and VSCode: work perfectly natively on Wayland with the right flags.
- X11 apps that want to position windows or bars at specific screen coordinates: won't work well; you can run them in a nested compositor like [labwc](https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/wiki/Xwayland#using-the-labwc-wayland-compositor) or [rootful Xwayland](https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/wiki/Xwayland#directly-running-xwayland-in-rootful-mode).
- Display scaling (integer or fractional) will make X11 apps look blurry; this needs to be supported in xwayland-satellite.
For games, you can run them in [gamescope] at native resolution, even with display scaling.
## Inspiration
Niri is heavily inspired by [PaperWM] which implements scrollable tiling on top of GNOME Shell.
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[hyprscroller]: https://github.com/dawsers/hyprscroller
[hyprslidr]: https://gitlab.com/magus/hyprslidr
[PaperWM.spoon]: https://github.com/mogenson/PaperWM.spoon
[Matrix channel]: https://matrix.to/#/#niri:matrix.org
[OpenTabletDriver]: https://opentabletdriver.net/
[gamescope]: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope