Gestures

Overview

Since: 25.02

The gestures config section contains gesture settings. For an overview of all niri gestures, see the Gestures wiki page.

Here's a quick glance at the available settings along with their default values.

gestures {
    dnd-edge-view-scroll {
        trigger-width 30
        delay-ms 100
        max-speed 1500
    }

    dnd-edge-workspace-switch {
        trigger-height 50
        delay-ms 100
        max-speed 1500
    }

    hot-corners {
        // off
        top-left
        // top-right
        // bottom-left
        // bottom-right
    }
}

dnd-edge-view-scroll

Scroll the tiling view when moving the mouse cursor against a monitor edge during drag-and-drop (DnD). Also works on a touchscreen.

This will work for regular drag-and-drop (e.g. dragging a file from a file manager), and for window interactive move when targeting the tiling layout.

The options are:

• trigger-width: size of the area near the monitor edge that will trigger the scrolling, in logical pixels.
• delay-ms: delay in milliseconds before the scrolling starts. Avoids unwanted scrolling when dragging things across monitors.
• max-speed: maximum scrolling speed in logical pixels per second. The scrolling speed increases linearly as you move your mouse cursor from trigger-width to the very edge of the monitor.

gestures {
    // Increase the trigger area and maximum speed.
    dnd-edge-view-scroll {
        trigger-width 100
        max-speed 3000
    }
}

dnd-edge-workspace-switch

Since: 25.05

Scroll the workspaces up/down when moving the mouse cursor against a monitor edge during drag-and-drop (DnD) while in the overview. Also works on a touchscreen.

The options are:

• trigger-height: size of the area near the monitor edge that will trigger the scrolling, in logical pixels.
• delay-ms: delay in milliseconds before the scrolling starts. Avoids unwanted scrolling when dragging things across monitors.
• max-speed: maximum scrolling speed; 1500 corresponds to one screen height per second. The scrolling speed increases linearly as you move your mouse cursor from trigger-width to the very edge of the monitor.

gestures {
    // Increase the trigger area and maximum speed.
    dnd-edge-workspace-switch {
        trigger-height 100
        max-speed 3000
    }
}

hot-corners

Since: 25.05

Put your mouse at the very top-left corner of a monitor to toggle the overview. Also works during drag-and-dropping something.

off disables the hot corners.

// Disable the hot corners.
gestures {
    hot-corners {
        off
    }
}

Since: next release You can choose specific hot corners by name: top-left, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-right. If no corners are explicitly set, the top-left corner will be active by default.

// Enable the top-right and bottom-right hot corners.
gestures {
    hot-corners {
        top-right
        bottom-right
    }
}

You can also customize hot corners per-output in the output config.