u/Antoinedeloup

Hi everyone! i recently posted about not being able to use NetBeans IDE on Niri because it displayed a blank screen. Well, by randomly clicking i found out that the buttons were working, and the pop up menus did appear correctly. I managed to get into the settings and enabled window decorations - This fixed it.

However, i noticed that the window has blurry, slightly deformed text on the entire UI, and the editing tap in particular, has text that seems to render exceptionally worse.

Tiled

Zoomed in, there's still rough edges

The UI scales perfectly if i either run the program full screen, or as a floating window. The editing tab still looks a bit janky, like without any antialiasing/hinting whatsoever.

I can still make use of the program now - after clicking around at a blank screen, i can now see the UI and use the window floating, occupying a full tile space (Super+F) in its individual workspace. Sadly this prevents me from being able to move between windows on this workspace without NetBeans overlapping, or i should have them all floating which is not ideal.

I'm aware that this is not a Wayland native application. I have `xwayland-satallite` installed on my system. If anyone knows a workaround for this, i'd be glad to hear about it.

NOTE: Everywhere else, the screen renders everything perfectly, text is crystal clear, even more so than it was in GNOME somehow. I was actually impressed by how crisp it looks, which i think is what made me realize the drop of quality in this program lol.

Hi everyone. I installed Niri with DMS and configured it, everything works and behaves fine for the most part, except for one program: Apache NetBeans 29.

Ive tried reinstalling it, I tried reinstalling it again but deleting all config or leftover files first, and I can't seem to know how to fix it.

When I launch the program from a GNOME session, it displays the UI correctly and the shortcuts work. On Niri its not that it doesn't display right, if I try to open or create a new project it just won't open anything.

I have no window rules set for NetBeans. Im not sure what could be the issue here.

Hi everyone! I'm interested in installing Niri, after dealing with some issues with PaperWM that stem mostly from the way GNOME and PaperWM handle some things differently by design; namely, the positioning of the workspaces in a horizontal or vertical grid, the overview displaying them as such and a very different screen from the one you get when changing workspaces with Super+Page, which also messes with trackpad gestures, making me need another extension for this... Gets bugged though if i change a gesture to use the screen to changing spaces too... and i'm already running tons of extensions on top of gnome to personalize it.

However, i'm not quite sure if i really understand what abandoning a DE means. Will an app launcher Fuzzel and a shell like DMS or Noctalia be enough "companionship" to Niri? what else am i not considering?

• There's someone else who uses this computer and has different user. Is it possible to have the same login screen access both the account with the Gnome session and another with Niri + App launcher and Shell?
• Is there some functionality that is lost by abandoning GNOME and going this route of program combination? What makes me confused is the mention that this isn't a DE. I'm scared i will lose some function that i haven't thought about.
• Will my GNOME apps like the calendar, weather, etc. work and connect with the new shell? or do i have to find new ones?
• Is there something like a full app grid with an app launcher? (hopefully that doesn't take over my entire screen, but where i can still group apps by folders and such)
• And finally, how complicated is it really to install and configure all necessary components to go from Gnome + PaperWM and other extensions to Niri + Shell + App launcher?

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If you're inclined, please suggest a shell, an app launcher, and other software that might go along well with Niri!