Spent a few hours tonight just trying to get the scaling to NOT be 125%. All the settings for #niri were set correctly to defaults at scaling factor of 1.

Looks like this is the same issue I have in Gnome where it picks up my resolution and automatically scales me up to 125%. Difference here is Gnome surfaces that setting in displays and you can quickly fix it. It is not surfaced as a setting anywhere to see in the cachy/niri settings.

I had to do the following and apparently I need to script this to do this every reboot as it’s not persistent. Shout out to a random forum post for the tidbit.

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface scaling-factor 1
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface text-scaling-factor 1.1
wlr-randr --output eDP-1 --scale 1

So far I’m not actually hitting anything CachyOS specific and just getting used to Niri. I do like Niri so far. I need to tweak some settings (like getting to the app launcher via Super). I’m not sure if I like how many options there are so far though.

I’m not a UI ricer and enjoy the simplicity and sane defaults of #elementaryos and #gnome but I do have those on my main systems to fall back to while I play with this.

Yeah, this works for me with #fish and #niri:

1. Set fish_title to `pwd`.
2. Have a `ycwd` script:

TITLE="$(niri msg --json focused-window | jq -r .title)"
if [ -d "$TITLE" ]; then
echo "$TITLE"
else
echo "$HOME"
fi

3. Set the niri key binding: Mod+Return { spawn-sh "kitty -1 --working-directory=\"$(ycwd)\""; }