Niri Float Sticky

A utility to make floating windows visible across all workspaces in niri — similar to "sticky windows" in other compositors.

Why?

Niri doesn’t natively support global floating windows. This tool forces float windows to persist on every workspace, mimicking the sticky behavior from X11/Wayland compositors like Sway or KWin.

Installation

Via Go:

go install github.com/probeldev/niri-float-sticky@latest

Via AUR (maintained by jamlotrasoiaf/brainworms2002):

paru -S niri-float-sticky

Via Nix:

nix profile install github:probeldev/niri-float-sticky 

Usage

To automatically launch the utility on niri startup, add this line to your niri configuration:

spawn-at-startup "niri-float-sticky"

Command Line Options

Usage of niri-float-sticky:
  -allow-moving-to-foreign-monitors
        allow moving to foreign monitors
  -debug
        enable debug logging
  -version
        print version and exit

Example with debug log:

niri-float-sticky -debug >> /tmp/niri-float-sticky.log

# Configuring logrotate
cat <<EOF | sudo tee /etc/logrotate.d/niri-float-sticky >/dev/null
/tmp/niri-float-sticky.log {
    daily
    rotate 5
    compress
    missingok
    notifempty
    copytruncate
    maxsize 10M
    su root root
}
EOF

Contributing

We welcome all contributions! To get started:

1. Open an Issue to:

   • Report bugs
   • Suggest new features
   • Ask questions

2. Create a Pull Request for:

   • Bug fixes
   • New functionality
   • Documentation improvements

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.