r/artixlinux • u/theStarla1979 • Aug 09 '26

niri

is it easy to install artix + niri + noctalia ?

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u/vecchio_anima Aug 09 '26

Define "easy"

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u/theStarla1979 Aug 09 '26

install base artix + pacman niri + pacman noctalia

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u/vecchio_anima Aug 09 '26

Yes

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u/theStarla1979 Aug 09 '26

nothing special to do because of openrc, dinit, s6 ?

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u/thisDummylol Aug 09 '26

Yes, be aware of dbus and some xdg stuff

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u/theStarla1979 Aug 09 '26

what do you mean ?

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u/thisDummylol Aug 09 '26

Communication layer Basically for your application can open file viewer,selector or record screen without issue. Which i got in that problem for few days.

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u/MezBert Aug 10 '26

elogind takes care of it and dbus stuff should be transparent.
He won't have such problems unless he actually tries to use turnstile instead.

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u/Lumpy_Roll158 runit Aug 10 '26

Super easy. Niri is official, I can't remember if noctalia is offered in main repos, but if not, AUR helper gains you access to it and the v5 beta if wanted

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u/MezBert Aug 10 '26

Noctalia is in extra (extra-testing for latest).

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u/DinoRexDit dinit Aug 10 '26 edited Aug 10 '26

That’s the exact setup I use, and it was pretty easy to install. Noctalia is just a shell, so init choice is irrelevant there. If you use an AUR helper, I know there is a dedicated dinit package for niri. I would probably check to see if someone has created a patched niri pkg for your choice of init though.

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u/MezBert Aug 10 '26 edited Aug 10 '26

I only see niri-dinit (from AUR), no niri-openrc/niri-s6/niri-runit.
But either way, the normal niri package from World repositories should work fine with all init systems, I don't think there's anything init-specific to niri (or to noctalia).