Niri (window manager)

Niri is a scrollable tiling window manager and compositing manager for Wayland inspired by the GNOME extension PaperWM and written in Rust. Niri officially supports Fedora, Arch Linux, Ubuntu, and NixOS. It supports taskbars, output rotation, Inter-Process Communication (IPC), tablet mode switch, alt-tab switcher and screen reader.

In 2026, Niri was included for Archinstall 4.4.

Features

New Alt-Tab Switcher Workspace Overview Tabbed Columns Shadows Window Moving Tablet Mode Switch

Reception Niri has been praised for its touchpad gestures support and was adopted as the default window manager of KaOS, which abandoned KDE Plasma in order to avoid Systemd.

Niri (window manager)

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