iNiR vs illogical-impulse

Same codebase, different compositors

Short version: Niri? Use iNiR. Hyprland? Use illogical-impulse.

Background

illogical-impulse by end-4 is the original project, built for Hyprland. iNiR is a fork by snowarch, adapted for Niri with its own features on top. They share the same Quickshell + QML foundation but target different compositors.

Differences

~table

	iNiR	illogical-impulse
Compositor	Niri	Hyprland
Workspace model	Scrolling	Grid
Panel families	ii + waffle	ii only
Config path	`~/.config/illogical-impulse/config.json`	`~/.config/illogical-impulse/config.json`
Maintainer	snowarch	end-4

What iNiR adds

waffle panel family — taskbar, start menu, action center, widgets panel, task view
Niri-native overview — built for scrolling workspaces, not grid
Per-monitor wallpapers — different wallpaper per screen, per-monitor color extraction
Shell update overlay — see what changed before updating
Weather geocoding — city name or GPS for manual location

Compositor support

iNiR on Niri: primary target. Most features are designed and tested for Niri.

iNiR on Hyprland: partial. Some features are Hyprland-only, and some behaviors differ between compositors.

illogical-impulse on Niri: not supported. Different workspace model, different IPC layer.

For a detailed breakdown of what is compositor-specific, see Limitations.

Configs are not compatible

Similar JSON structure but different keys and different defaults. If migrating:

~code

# backup old config
cp ~/.config/illogical-impulse/config.json ~/illogical-impulse-config-backup.json

# install iNiR
git clone https://github.com/snowarch/inir.git ~/.config/quickshell/ii
cd ~/.config/quickshell/ii && ./setup install

Port settings manually. Don't copy the whole config file — schema differences will break things.