I've never tried it. "Scrollable" window managers, however, imply certain things, some of which are undesirable. Like, do you have to scroll through half the applications to get from the end to the middle? Or from one end to the other?

It looks as if it can be used like other tiling WMs, with workspaces, except that each workspace can be expanded horizontally. I'm having a hard time imagining why this would be more useful than just adding more workspaces.

Why is Niri great? How does it work on multi-monitor setups? What about it do you like?

[–] rwdf@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

I use it on my laptop which has a small screen. I have two or three workspaces/"ribbons" with let's say terminals (with IDE) on the first one, browser(s) under that one and chats in the bottom row. I have at most two or three windows in each row, so there's not much overhead. Also there are keybindings to jump to the start or end of each workspace. How many windows do you usually have open?

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