Niri Land

Warning

This project is now in maintenance mode. No new features will be added. If you are looking for something more up to date check out my new project bomb-shell.

Features • Gallery • Dependencies • UI & Icons • Installation • Keybinds • GTK Setup

🚀 Features

• Gapless, borderless windows
• Status bar hidden until overview
• App drawer
• Power menu
• Volume flyout with mute indicator
• Wallpaper selector
• Status bar colored to wallpaper

🖼 Gallery

Background Selector

App Drawer

Overview

Power Menu

📦 Dependencies

Name	Used For	Link
niri	Window manager	niri
mako	Notifications, volume flyout	mako
waybar	Overview bar	waybar
swww	Wallpaper daemon	swww
rofi	Power menu, background selector, app drawer	rofi
ImageMagick	Background selector, status bar coloring	ImageMagick

🎨 UI & Icon Themes

Name	Used For	Link
Bibata Classic	Cursor theme	Bibata Cursor
JetBrains Mono Nerd Font	UI font	JetBrainsMono-NF
Material Symbols Rounded	Power menu font	Material Symbols Rounded
Papirus	App drawer icons	Papirus

🛠️ Installation & Setup

Warning

Tested only at 1080p with scale=1. Other configurations may require adjusting Rofi font size or padding in ~/.config/rofi/themes/*.

1. Install dependencies for your distribution.

2. Configs: Copy .config files to ~/.config.

3. Scripts: Copy scripts from bin to ~/.local/bin.

4. Wallpapers: Copy images from wallpapers/ into ~/Pictures/wallpapers.

5. Autostart: Link services with niri (preferred). This requires starting niri with niri-session or a display manager:

   systemctl --user add-wants niri.service mako.service
   systemctl --user add-wants niri.service waybar.service
   systemctl --user add-wants niri.service swww.service
   systemctl --user add-wants niri.service overviewlistener.service

   Alternatively, add these lines to ~/.config/niri/config.kdl:

   spawn-at-startup "waybar"
   spawn-at-startup "mako"
   spawn-at-startup "swww-daemon"
   spawn-at-startup "overviewlistener"

⌨️ Keybinds

Action	Shortcut
Background selector	Mod + B
App drawer	Mod + D
Power menu	Mod + P

🎭 Optional: GTK Theme, Font & Icon Setup

Enable dark mode and unify GTK apps (and some others like Firefox):

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface color-scheme 'prefer-dark'
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-theme 'Adwaita-dark'
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface font-name 'JetBrains Mono Nerd Font 11'
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface icon-theme 'Papirus'