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niri

Wayland compositor Application

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Initial release2023-11-26
Latest release26.04; 25 Apr 2026
StatusActive
Operating SystemLinux, FreeBSD
Language(s)Rust, GLSL
LicenseGNU General Public License v3.0 only
External links
GitHubniri-wm/niri
Bug trackerhttps://github.com/niri-wm/niri/issues
DocumentationOfficial wiki, niri-flake

Niri 是一个可滚动平铺的 Wayland 合成器。

安装

只需启用 programs.niri

❄︎ /etc/nixos/configuration.nix
programs.niri.enable = true;
Note: 无需安装自定义 flake(例如 niri-flake)即可启用 Niri。尽管截至 2025 年,该存储库在搜索引擎中的排名仍然靠前,但只有当您想要使用最新版本的 Niri 或想要用 Nix 语言编写配置时,才需要 niri-flake


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Warning: 如果没有进行 配置附加设置,或者在全新安装后,您可能由于缺少 Alacritty 和 fuzzel 等预期程序而无法启动应用程序。请按 Super+Shift+E 退出 niri 并继续执行其中一项操作。


Configuration

The configuration path for niri is $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/niri/config.kdl. Therefore Home Manager can be used for configuration:

❄︎ ~/.config/home-manager/home.nix
xdg.configFile."niri/config.kdl".source = ./config.kdl;

You might want to start from the default configuration file described at here.

See the wiki for configuration options for niri.

Greetd

You can start niri with greetd configuration:

❄︎ /etc/nixos/configuration.nix
programs.niri.enable = true;

services.greetd = {
  enable = true;
  settings = {
    default_session = {
      command = "${config.programs.niri.package}/bin/niri-session";
      user = "myuser";
    };
  };
};

# NixOS otherwise injects a stripped PATH via Environment= on the niri.service
# unit which shadows the imported user-manager PATH. Disabling the default
# lets niri inherit the full PATH set up by niri-session.
systemd.user.services.niri.enableDefaultPath = false;

Additional Setup

As described in Example systemd Setup (niri wiki), you might want to set up some additional services including Swayidle, Swaylock, Waybar, Polkit and Secret Service as follows to complement the functionality of a regular window manager. Some of the these settings are also required to enable all the features of the default configuration file.

❄︎ /etc/nixos/configuration.nix
security.polkit.enable = true; # polkit
services.gnome.gnome-keyring.enable = true; # secret service
security.pam.services.swaylock = {};

programs.waybar.enable = true; # top bar
environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [ alacritty fuzzel swaylock mako swayidle ];

Or using Home Manager:

❄︎ ~/.config/home-manager/home.nix
programs.alacritty.enable = true; # Super+T in the default setting (terminal)
programs.fuzzel.enable = true; # Super+D in the default setting (app launcher)
programs.swaylock.enable = true; # Super+Alt+L in the default setting (screen locker)
programs.waybar.enable = true; # launch on startup in the default setting (bar)
services.mako.enable = true; # notification daemon
services.swayidle.enable = true; # idle management daemon
services.polkit-gnome.enable = true; # polkit
home.packages = with pkgs; [
  swaybg # wallpaper
];

Troubleshooting

IME not working on Electron apps

There is a general workaround to set NIXOS_OZONE_WL as described in Wayland#Electron_and_Chromium:

❄︎ /etc/nixos/configuration.nix
environment.sessionVariables.NIXOS_OZONE_WL = "1";

However, since niri does not support text-input-v1, sometimes enabling text-input-v3 by manually adding --wayland-text-input-version=3 flag is necessary for IME to work:

$ slack --wayland-text-input-version=3

wrapProgram may be used to add the flag automatically:

❄︎ /etc/nixos/configuration.nix
environment.systemPackages = [
  (pkgs.symlinkJoin {
    pname = pkgs.vscode.pname;
    paths = [ pkgs.vscode ];
    buildInputs = [ pkgs.makeWrapper ];
    postBuild = "wrapProgram $out/bin/code --add-flags --wayland-text-input-version=3";
  };)
];

XWayland apps not working

There is a optional dependency for niri which is highly recommended to install (you can read this article to learn more about this)

❄︎ /etc/nixos/configuration.nix
environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [ 
    xwayland-satellite # xwayland support
];

Or using Home Manager

❄︎ ~/.config/home-manager/home.nix
home.packages = with pkgs; [
  xwayland-satellite # xwayland support
];

After you installed xwayland-satellite niri will integrate it out of the box and all of your XWayland apps will function properly.

File picker not working

If you are using xdg-desktop-portal-gnome, it will attempt to use Nautilus as the file picker, which will fail if Nautilus is not installed.

To work around this problem, you can force usage of the gtk or kde portals for file picker instead:

❄︎ /etc/nixos/configuration.nix
xdg.portal.config.niri = {
  "org.freedesktop.impl.portal.FileChooser" = [ "gtk" ]; # or "kde"
};

Waybar launches twice

When using a configuration option like programs.waybar.enable, waybar may launch twice on Niri. This is because the default Niri config file launches waybar on launch. Remove the spawn-at-startup "waybar" from the config file, or add waybar to your systems packages without using the home-manager option.

See Also