{"id":9,"date":"2025-10-15T16:53:48","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T16:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kroboth-home.at\/?p=9"},"modified":"2025-10-16T01:50:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T01:50:16","slug":"finding-the-right-compositor-for-my-hydra-setup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kroboth-home.at\/?p=9","title":{"rendered":"Finding the right compositor for my hydra setup."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Finding the right compositor for a 6-headed setup is hard. I tried Plasma 6 and Hyprland and am currently testing out Niri.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Using Plasma 6, while being one of my favorite desktop environments and using it on my laptop, was a hell on 6 heads. Managing all the windows, and manually positioning them everywhere was a great time loss. I know i could solve that with custom KWin scripts, but all in all i don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s the right environment for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a former XMonad user, I&#8217;m very satisfied with Hyprland, but now that Niri is all the rage i wanted to try it out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently I&#8217;m very skeptical of the whole scrolling approach, but I hope to be proven wrong in the next few weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">First Impressions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The scrolling is cool. Very cool. But i really dislike that each monitor has its own set of workspaces. That&#8217;s kind of a dealbreaker for me. Maybe I will adjust after a few weeks but currently I only find it cumbersome. Would recommend on single-headed systems tho.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finding the right compositor for a 6-headed setup is hard. I tried Plasma 6 and Hyprland and am currently testing out Niri. 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