u/One_Association_4425

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been working on this Material You setup for Niri, built on Noctalia V5. colors pull straight from your wallpaper, even video wallpapers (mpvpaper + ffmpeg hook)

kitty + fish/starship, zed for editing, eye care mode for late night reading, radial menu on super+s, scratchpad terminal, fcitx5 skin that matches your theme

one command installs everything, snapshots/rollback built in if you wanna mess with it without fear

install: curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ech678/NyxNiri/main/install.sh | bash
repo: github.com/ech678/NyxNiri

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I'll soon add an video in English.This video shows the appearance,built-in cli tools and install steps

Sharing a desktop config bundle I've been building on top of Niri and Noctalia V5.

Highlights:

• Material You color extraction from wallpaper — including video wallpapers, via an mpvpaper + ffmpeg hook
• Light/dark sync (GTK/GSettings follow Noctalia automatically)
• nyxniri CLI for install/snapshot/rollback/doctor — updates won't wipe your personal tweaks (*__custom__* files/folders are preserved)
• Eye Care Mode, dynamic fcitx5 skin, Fish/Kitty tweaks

Repo: https://github.com/ech678/NyxNiri

Give me a star please if u like it. :D

Welcome to NyxNiri, a unified, beautifully customized tiling desktop setup based on the Niri scroll-tiling window manager and the Noctalia V5 shell. Highly optimized for CachyOS / Arch Linux, this configuration provides a premium, modern user experience with dynamic Material You coloring and automated tools.

Github: https://github.com/ech678/NyxNiri

And we have an auto install script!

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I've tried almost every Niri shell I could find (DMS, Noctalia v4, INIR, etc.), but I still can't get my desktop to look the way I want.

My biggest issue is the bar. In most shells, the bar's blur is tied to the window blur settings, so I can't tune them independently. If I make the windows look good, the bar looks off. If I make the bar look good, the windows end up looking wrong.

I'm also never quite satisfied with the bar's rounded corners, shadows, or spacing. It always feels like something is slightly off.

I actually like INIR the most aesthetically, but the animations don't feel as smooth as I'd expect (I'm running a 2K 180Hz monitor with an RTX 4070 Ti), and Chinese text rendering looks a bit blurry.

At this point I'm wondering whether I should just keep tweaking my current setup or start from scratch with something else.

Does anyone have similar aesthetic preferences? If so, I'd love to see your configs, screenshots, or dotfiles. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.