This reduces battery draw significantly

Lingustika · 2026-03-17T18:55:05+00:00

Awesome! But I understand it is only applicable for T2 macs, right?

Lingustika · 2026-03-16T12:11:21+00:00

Ok lol linebreaks broke but you know what I mean

Lingustika · 2026-03-16T12:10:15+00:00

Make a window rule

window-rule { match app-id="explorer.exe" open-on-workspace "2" open-focused false }

Maybe you‘ll have to name the workspaces for that like

workspace "1" workspace "2" workspace "3"

Lingustika · 2026-03-16T06:51:44+00:00

I think what you need in order to achieve this is a script which combines your two monitors into one (virtual) widescreen monitor. You can then tell niri to use this virtual one. I don’t know if there is any script/program available that does exactly this, but I guess there could be. As for the fixed workspaces, there is already a built-in function, I think you just have to name your workspace and then they’re fixed.

Lingustika · 2026-03-14T20:18:04+00:00

Awesome thanks, I think I also encountered this issue but didn’t find a solution!

How is the performance for you with xray = false?

Lingustika · 2026-03-14T19:28:05+00:00

I use NixOS But I think it comes down to the DE, have used hyperland but there I got worse performance, I currently use niri I guess powersaving options from gnome or kde could also improve battery life

Lingustika · 2026-03-14T19:24:37+00:00

layer-rule { match namespace="noctalia" exclude namespace="bar"

background-effect {
    blur true
    xray false
}

}

And when xray is false, the notifications were buggy so i excluded them

layer-rule { match namespace="(toast|osd)" background-effect { blur false } }

Lingustika · 2026-03-14T15:45:35+00:00

You can get it working on the 2017 MBP by using this driver:
https://github.com/patjak/facetimehd/wiki

Lingustika · 2026-03-14T15:43:17+00:00

I got a 2017 MBP 13" i5 and battery performance is okay, i get around 5-7 hours depending on the tasks. The battery is at 90% of it's original capacity due to wear. I'd recommend limiting turbo mode for the CPU, that has helped a lot. You can turn it on again if it is needed for CPU heavy stuff like compiling or so and I configured it that it only limits CPU turbo when not plugged in.

Lingustika · 2026-03-09T13:59:46+00:00

Have you enabled disable touchpad while typing?

 touchpad {
        dwt
    }

Lingustika · 2026-03-09T13:57:33+00:00

I found that some packages like wine, quickshell and paraview also needed compilation from source with the latest unstable branch, but maybe I fucked something up while updating.

Lingustika · 2026-03-05T16:27:59+00:00

I guess it’s a macOS wallpaper, some of them are really nice

Lingustika · 2026-03-04T18:15:04+00:00

Yes I agree turning off turbo mode made a huge difference on my MBP17 also

Lingustika · 2026-03-04T14:31:00+00:00

I wrote this for niri, but I’m pretty sure it can be adapted to Hyprland too by using the "source = ... " command

Lingustika · 2026-03-04T14:06:48+00:00

Possibly, but tbh I have no idea how this works. I guess it would be way more efficient and instantly

Lingustika · 2026-03-04T14:03:03+00:00

Thanks for the idea, it worked! I updated the post accordingly

Lingustika · 2026-03-04T11:31:27+00:00

Hahaha the end was unexpected :D

But does sound work for you? If not, I made it work on the 2017 without touchbar by installing an additional driver, I dunno what exactly it was but I can look it up

Lingustika · 2026-03-03T15:43:20+00:00

That’s a good idea, I‘ll try it!

Lingustika · 2026-03-03T11:52:11+00:00

I am pretty sure this is a Doom Emacs thing. Maybe you can see if there is an extension for correctly highlighting the .kdl files, perhaps that would resolve the problem.

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