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It went to beta earlier this month.

Noctalia v5 is currently in Beta. While the core features and architecture are stabilizing, you may still encounter occasional configuration or behavior adjustments as we prepare for the final release.

Been using v5 for probably around a month or more, it runs great haven’t had any issues with it.

Been running the Beta for a bit (in a VM), seems nearly ready to go. I’m waiting for a few plugins to be released, although that may be a while (not even accepting new/refactored plugins at last check).

I’m using Niri and the ‘noctalia’ package with is v5 beta 3 version. It is definitely stable enough for daily use.

I am having issues with Niri with it suspending on logout. You will see other issues in the ticket I have mentioned relating to monitor state detection. Generally I kind of wonder why so many bugs which seem to be related are hanging around.

If I was not having high hopes on Cosmic, I would consider trying Hyprland + Noctalia. Just I am waiting for it to be more stable as lots of features seem to be in development.

So far, the only issues I’ve had with Hyprland are related to suspend (which I’ve now disabled). But that has been a sore-spot with me on many Linux DEs/WMs. Since I use a PC and not a laptop, I really don’t care that much.

As far as COSMIC goes, it’s looking more promising with every update. Still don’t understand why they don’t have the option to disable window decorations; kinda pointless with tiling.

I have problem with Noctalia. If I click to Waterfox in dock, it opens me new window, not show existing window.(labwc)
Also I could not setup auto-login keespasx and vivaldi to work.

Unclear why auto-login to a password vault would be a wise move… But are you putting appropriate instructions in your autostart folder?

I added instruction to the labwc autostart, but could not set uop in vivaldi

Well, as I’m currently in the process of recreating my KDE Plasma Desktop Layout within Niri / DMS…

There are still some things to iron out. But for the most part, I’m pretty surprised and I think that I’ll get rid of KDE Plasma altogether.

Some features seems to be not available yet, such as excluding specific windows from the window paging in the overview as well as the dock. This is essentially a mixed tiling layout with fixed floating windows on the left and the right (via the window rules within DMS), and only the main / middle part would be tiled / scrolled.