Niri 0.1.6 Wayland Compositor Adds Interactive Window Resizing & Mouse View Scrolling

Niri is a scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor inspired by PaperWM and heavy on the animations/effects. Out this morning is Niri 0.1.6 as the newest feature release for this Wayland compositor.

Niri 0.1.6 adds interactive window resizing via mouse input, mouse view scrolling, named workspaces within the Niri configuration file, IPC improvements, new debugging features, rounded window corners, the ability to set custom shaders for animations, and a number of other improvements. There are also no shortage of bug fixes with the Niri 0.1.6 compositor release.

Downloads, more details on the new release, and screenshots/videos of the new features can be found via Niri on GitHub.