Moving into Niri & DankMaterialShell in NixOS
I had been looking at Niri while testing CachyOS. It gave me the satisfaction of a calm, keyboard-friendly Wayland desktop, and that thought stuck with me. Over the next few weeks, I kept thinking about one practical question: How could I rebuild this workflow from my NixOS configuration with DMS and Niri, without recreating the same problems along the way? Niri is the compositor; it decides where windows live. DankMaterialShell, usually shortened to DMS, is the friendly layer around it: panel, launcher, notifications, settings, lock screen integration, wallpaper colors, tray, and a growing set of desktop conveniences. ...