what is the best way to get workspaces to work

[MangoIV]

Hi! I'm using waybar and I would love to have workspaces displayed in the bottom left. From the documentation in waybar, this should work with the use of the wlr/workspaces module.

Is there anything special I have to do wrt niri to get this to work?

Thanks in advance!

[YaLTeR]

Hi, the wlr workspaces protocol was in stasis in wayland-protocols merge requests last time I checked, and niri itself currently lacks a good IPC to implement a niri-specific module properly. That said, there's been some workarounds: #356

[MangoIV]

ah no, my bad, I forgot to actually update niri as well :D

[YaLTeR]

The fontconfig error is unrelated. Make sure you have the latest git niri. Check if niri msg event-stream works.

[MangoIV]

yes, it all works well! there seem to be some glitches where workspaces appear that are not in use, but apart from that, all is well :)

[YaLTeR]

These are not glitches; there's always an empty workspace in the end.

[MangoIV]

thank you!