Niri

I have recently come across niri.

I do not know how I managed to miss that this is a thing for this long. In my limited experience this is even better than Hyprland.

Overview hjkl

The overview mode is amazing. It would be even amazinger if you could use hjkl vim navigation in addition to the arrow keys. This should be fairly simple

XWayland

XWayland is a bit rough on niri. instantmenu spawns on the wrong workspace and sometimes behind normal tiled windows. Sometimes it also opens in a window even though it is supposed to render above other windows, not inside one. I do not know if this is a problem with xwayland-satellite or niri, but sadly it makes X11-based menus nearly unusable.

Dynamic workspaces

Maybe this is just personal preference but I do not think dynamic workspaces make sense for keybinds which have a specific number on it.

1. Press Mod+4
2. Open an application
3. Press Mod+1
4. I want to go back to the application, so I press Mod+4
5. Go hunting for the application. It turns out to be on workspace 3 because it was empty

This requires you to constantly mentally keep track of your workspaces, because the meaning of the keybinds which switch workspaces constantly changes.

GitHub wikis

I much prefer VitePress or MkDocs Material over GitHub wikis. They provide search, better performance, navigation, and styling. I would love for niri to switch to one of these.