Kancept

Wish me luck folks. I’m installing #CachyOS and #niri on one of my laptops to test.

Coming at this as a long time #fedora and #debian with #gnome user.

May 16 at 1:40amWeb
Show threadKancept1d ago

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.

Show threadMark1d ago
@Kancept you'll probably never look back ☺️
Show threadKancept1d ago

@thesaigoneer I dunno. For as often as I spin up systems, it’s nice to have my known sane defaults in Gnome and hit the ground running.

So far, I did not like the CachyOS installer. It was damn near impossible to read black text in the dark grey background in the partitioning screen.

I wish I could install multiple DEs during install vs waiting until first login.

I know I saw the old ‘X’ cursor when logging in for the first time, so it feels like the login manager spins up X then switches to Wayland which was odd.

I am enjoying Niri / Natalia so far though. I’m going to give it a solid try over the next week.

I’ve also got to figure out where to change my monitor scaling as it seems to have defaulted to 125% and Natalia shows all of its stuff is at 100%.

But I’m only maybe 15 to 30 minutes into it as I’m doing this while working 🤣

Show threadMark1d ago
@Kancept Well, my not-looking-back was related to niri, not Cachy. I appreciate their efforts, but I have the same qualms like you. Noctalia (😜 ) is a great addition indeed to get you started. This-installing-whilst-doing-other-things sounds very familiar 😂 Have a go, their wiki is pretty good for more info. And if niri is not for you, also good. Have fun!
Show threadKancept1d ago
@thesaigoneer I am really liking Noctalia so far.
Show threadMark1d ago
@Kancept Btw, related to your other post: nirimod is a package that is mentioned a lot, perhaps worth checking out? Disclaimer: i've never used it myself. It's available in the AUR:
https://github.com/srinivasr/nirimod
GitHub - srinivasr/nirimod: NiriMod – A visual, interactive configuration interface for the niri Wayland compositor.

NiriMod – A visual, interactive configuration interface for the niri Wayland compositor. - srinivasr/nirimod

GitHub
Show threadKancept1d ago
@thesaigoneer I saw this mentioned in another thread after I'd fixed my issue tonight. Maybe I'll still install it tomorrow.
Show threadMark1d ago
@Kancept Possibly it'll make your settings persistent. All our talk made me curious to have a go at niri myself soon again 🤓
Show threaddeedend  1d ago
@Kancept
Same here, coming from #xfce on #manjaro. It takes a bit to get used to it, but with the help of #noctalia it's easier!
Show threadKancept1d ago
@deedend yeah, Noctalia is nice so far. Very extensible and overall clean.
Show threadDave 🌱1d ago
@[email protected] enjoy and/or good luck! If it helps in any way; I recently switched from Fedora (Silverblue, GNOME) to Debian and am using and thoroughly enjoying Niri too.

Since I'm also using the unfortunately named Dank Material Shell, installation for both ended up being super simple on Debian by using Dank's installer and repositories, so I don't even have to use that other package manager thing Niri suggests for Debian, which means I also don't have to compile half the internet just to get my new favorite DE 😅.

This way I get the stability and boringness (meant only in the good ways! 😄) of Debian, while I get to enjoy Niri too!

Though sadly I still don't get ZFS on root this way, something Cachy will be able to give you. I really wish there was an option to have Debian with ZFS this way without having to go through super convoluted installation shenanigans. C'est la vie.

Anyway, enjoy! I hope it'll work out for you. But if it doesn't or you simply miss Debian, know that using Dank's repositories is a nice way to get there too! 😄
Show threadKancept1d ago
@jibsaram I saw that Dank Material Shell in a few videos I’ve watched, and it’s something I may try in a bit. Noctalia seems a lot more capable than some videos led it on to be, so gonna jam with that for a bit. Thanks for the input!