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0 pointsge965mo ago0 comments

I just wasn't sure how you'd know where you are if you can go in any direction

I suppose if it's built like top-left is 0,0 you could just scroll up/left to get to the beginning

If you imagine there are 4 windows and are arranged 2x2 then I was thinking you'd have an icon somewhere like

[ ] [*]

[ ] [ ]

So you'd know you're at the top right position

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atlintots5mo ago

You can't go in "any" direction, the infinite strip has a fixed height and extends infinitely to the right, so you scroll left-right. Then you have workspaces which are up/down but they are like separate strips entirely.

Maybe the video of the overview on this page will help: https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/wiki/Overview

ge96OP5mo ago

Ahh okay yeah I watched the 2 min one on the main readme

This does have the dots (vertical position) on the right bar

Long as the windows stay fixed, it annoys me how Mac will just randomly re-arrange your virtual desktops or whatever you call em

I use i3 personally at this time regarding this topic but yeah although I used to only care about it because I had crappy computers at the time so not having a full desktop meant saving 400 MB of RAM at idle for example

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