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Posted Jul 9, 2025 10:11 UTC (Wed) by spwhitton (subscriber, #71678)
Parent article: A tour of the niri scrolling-tiling Wayland compositor

Scrollable tiling is a wonderful recent trend.

Sway has become very mature and stable, and I wanted to stick with it for those reasons, but kept finding myself dissatisfied with the i3-style tiling it inherits, and wanted to try something else. So I implemented scrollable tiling on top of Sway using its IPC protocol. It works surprisingly well -- very well, in fact, and I've been using it daily for almost a year and a half.