iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Ivan Molodetskikh @yalter.bxt.rs · 10/08/2026

Today niri became 3 years old! 🎉 I implemented and merged animations for windows moving between workspaces. This was the last *major* missing anim. Took so long because it's tricky with Z ordering (moving windows must be on top of everything), clipping, and syncing 3 different animations. #niri

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Ivan Molodetskikh @yalter.bxt.rs · 18/07/2026

Here's my today's #GUADEC2026 talk about profiling with Tracy! 😄 youtu.be/Q4O7dhreLDU?... The slides (CC-BY-SA): docs.google.com/presentation... And Tracy itself of course: github.com/wolfpld/tracy

Myself presenting the Tracy timeline view

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Ivan Molodetskikh @yalter.bxt.rs · 08/06/2026

niri just hit 25000 stars on GitHub!!!! #niri

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Ivan Molodetskikh @yalter.bxt.rs · 25/04/2026

After five months of (on and off) development, I'm glad to announce niri v26.04! It's packed with features like window blur (of course), mouse cursor in window screencasts, rendering optimizations, and more. Enjoy the release notes: github.com/niri-wm/niri... #niri #wayland #rust

Screenshot showing blurred background behind a DankMaterialShell pop-out, Alacritty, and Nautilus sidebar.

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Ivan Molodetskikh @yalter.bxt.rs · 15/04/2026

After an additional round of fixes, cleanups and huge commit splitting, I just merged The Blur Pull Request to niri main! There's manual blur an ext-background-effect, already supported by dms-git and quickshell-git. Now I want to see screenshots that put Tahoe to shame #niri

Loupe image viewer with blur added on its main pop-up menu with added heavy background transparency.

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Ivan Molodetskikh @yalter.bxt.rs · 19/02/2026

niri has reached 20k stars on GitHub! 🥳🥳 pretty wild tbh thanks everyone for support! ❤️ #niriGitHub tooltip showing the niri repo with 20,000 stars

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Ivan Molodetskikh @yalter.bxt.rs · 13/02/2026

Finished region support for ext-background-effect/kde-blur protocols in niri. Clients can use this to shape blur to their rounded corners for example. Here's the Vicinae launcher using ext-bg-effect to get background blur with rounded corners with no extra configuration. #niri

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Ivan Molodetskikh @yalter.bxt.rs · 09/02/2026

Niri can block windows from screencasts. This must work with all other features including background blur. What if a surface *inside* the blur is blocked out? It gets extra tricky with open/close animations where you can set a custom shader, but I think I made it work! #niri

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Ivan Molodetskikh @yalter.bxt.rs · 05/02/2026

Btw I'm working on window blur in niri! Both xray and regular. Xray always "shows through" to the background. This allows it to be very efficient: compute blurred texture only once, then just draw that texture (very cheap). Not a single blur recomputation in this video! #niri

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Ivan Molodetskikh @yalter.bxt.rs · 25/12/2025

biblically accurate window management #niri

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Ivan Molodetskikh @yalter.bxt.rs · 20/12/2025

i added the pointer warping thing from blender to when you drag the view around in niri with the mouse hf with this new way to pass time during boring meetings (on a more serious note this helps when you need to scroll further than the edge of your monitor allows) #niri

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Ivan Molodetskikh @yalter.bxt.rs · 07/12/2025

did some exploring how terminal apps work (yes it's as bad as they say) to make a terminal ui for plitki, my vsrg engine. how bad would it be, quantized to the terminal grid? surprisingly, with the right characters, not too bad. ofc being plitki, there's full support for all kinds of SV

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Ivan Molodetskikh @yalter.bxt.rs · 29/11/2025

Today I'm releasing niri v25.11 with long-awaited config includes, Alt-Tab, true maximize, custom modes, and a bunch of other improvements! Enjoy the release notes :) github.com/YaLTeR/niri/... We also have new quick start guides: yalter.github.io/niri/Getting... #niri #smithay #wayland #rust

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Ivan Molodetskikh @yalter.bxt.rs · 30/08/2025

niri v25.08 is now released with a logo, xwayland-satellite integration, screen reader support, window positions in IPC and many other improvements! 😄 Read the notes here: github.com/YaLTeR/niri/... now i need at least a month off from any release notes preparation 😴 #niri #smithay #wayland #rust

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Ivan Molodetskikh @yalter.bxt.rs · 17/05/2025

After long 3 months of work, I'm glad to release niri v25.05 with the Overview, screenshot UI tablet and touch support, dynamic screencast target, and lots of other things! Release notes prepared for your reading pleasure as always: github.com/YaLTeR/niri/... #niri #smithay #rust #wayland

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Ivan Molodetskikh @yalter.bxt.rs · 11/04/2025

i have this old ASUS Eee PC collecting dust, decided to try if niri will run on it. well, it actually runs! a few shaders failed compiling (ran into ALU instruction limits), but otherwise seems to work #niri

fastfetch output in Alacritty in niri on an ASUS Eee PC

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Ivan Molodetskikh @yalter.bxt.rs · 01/04/2025

A secret niri v25.02 feature! Make your floating windows FLOAT by putting this in your config: window-rule { match is-floating=true baba-is-float true } Works in the nix flake too :) #niri #wayland

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Ivan Molodetskikh @yalter.bxt.rs · 22/02/2025

Today I'm releasing niri v25.02 with tabs, shadows, DnD view scrolling, and a ton of other improvements! Read the notes at github.com/YaLTeR/niri/... and @ your distro to update the package. [[honestly wtf how did so much stuff happen, it's been barely over a month]] #niri #smithay #wayland #rust

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Ivan Molodetskikh @yalter.bxt.rs · 14/01/2025

something odd about these windows

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Ivan Molodetskikh @yalter.bxt.rs · 11/01/2025

After a full day of writing release notes (god how'd it take so long 😩), niri v25.01 is out with Floating Windows and Working Layer-Shell Desktop Icons and so many more improvements! And we finally escaped zerover :) Read here: github.com/YaLTeR/niri/... #niri #rust #smithay #wayland

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