Floating tools rebuilt as a bench with a clock, a timer and your network, live windows and pins on Umbriel, pickers in your own colours, and an update that undoes itself whole when the new version won't start.
 Floating tools, rebuilt Super+G opens a bench of tools: a clock, a timer, your network and resources, pinned where you leave them. |  Live windows on Umbriel Pin a whole window or a part of one; it keeps playing on your desktop, here in Waffle. |
 Pickers in your colours Choosing a file, a folder or a colour opens the shell's own picker, in your scheme, never a white window. |  Hub widgets in Material's sidebars A widget from the Hub sits as a card in the left sidebar or a tab in the right one; the Countdown is the first. |
Added
- Floating tools, rebuilt: Super+G opens a bench over your game or video. Tools sit in groups on a strip, snap to the screen's edges and to each other, and Arrange lays every open one side by side. A pinned tool stays on screen when the bench closes, as a quiet readout with the plate you pick, clickable or letting clicks through to the game. Three new tools: Clock (large figures or a dial), Timer (timer, stopwatch with laps and focus sessions) and Network (latency, jitter, lost replies and traffic). Clearing your notifications there can be undone, and the floating image opens at a size that fits the screen. Set it up in Material's Settings › Panels › Floating tools, iRiS's Settings › Gaming & Fullscreen › Floating tools or Waffle's Settings › Interface › Floating tools (Floating tools; Material 2.36.2, iRiS 2.33.86, Waffle 2.34.16 from the Hub).
- Live windows on Umbriel: window previews in the Overview, Orbit and Task View, and live pins, now stream under Umbriel as they do under Niri (qs-rs 0.1.7).
- Hub widgets in Material's sidebars: a widget from the Hub can sit as a card in the left sidebar's Widgets column or as a tab in the right one (Settings › Sidebars). The Countdown is the first (Countdown 1.1.0, Material 2.36.0 from the Hub).
- iNiR Docker in the Hub: your containers on the desktop in three layouts, with live CPU and memory, start, stop and logs, and sliders for their RAM and CPU limits, by @yukazakiri (iNiR Docker 0.6.0 from the Hub, snowarch/inir-hub#6).
Changed
- Live pins take a whole window: picking a pin starts on the whole window, and a drag keeps only a part of it. The card's buttons and its resize grip stay put when the pointer comes near, and it keeps the live shape inside its box. Waffle shows pins on the desktop too. On Niri, a pin of a window on another workspace refreshes about once a second, and the picker says so: Niri draws hidden windows that slowly (niri-wm/niri#2609).
- Pickers in your colours: choosing a file, a folder, a picture or a colour opens the shell's own sheet in your theme in every family, instead of a white window, and the screen colour picker works on Niri (Material 2.36.1, iRiS 2.33.85, Waffle 2.34.15 from the Hub).
- Timers pause and come back: a timer can be paused, and stopping one can be undone; a paused timer keeps its time across restarts. On the iRiS Island a right click stops a timer, a middle click pauses it, the open Island has pause and stop, and the time reads whole (iRiS 2.33.86 from the Hub).
- The wallpaper starts without dim: the wallpaper and the backdrop no longer start darkened; a dim you set stays as it is.
- YT Music keeps its data apart: your queue, playlists, liked songs, searches, profile and where you left off move out of the config into a file of their own at the next start, so nothing rewrites your config while music plays.
- Material's left sidebar breathes: its widgets sit 24 px apart instead of 8, also in configs that kept the old spacing untouched, and a card with nothing to show (weather offline, no wallpapers) no longer leaves an empty block (Material 2.36.2 from the Hub).
Fixed
- A failed update undoes itself whole: when a new version didn't start, the rollback put the old shell back but left the new families and recorded the update as done, so
inir updatesaid "Already up to date", iRiS failed to load andinir doctorkept warning about a missing file manifest. The rollback now takes back the version, the families and the manifest together, and a desktop left that way updates again with this release (#331). - Text fields' right-click menu: it opens in the family's look, inside the panel, instead of a white menu outside it that made a sidebar close under the pointer (Material 2.36.2, iRiS 2.33.86, Waffle 2.34.16 from the Hub).
- Docks no longer blink when a window opens: the list of open apps emptied for a tenth of a second at each new window; the iRiS dock now slides its icons into place (iRiS 2.33.86 from the Hub).
- Live previews keep playing when focus moves: tiles in the Overview, Orbit and Task View were rebuilt at each focus change and lost their live picture (iRiS 2.33.86, Waffle 2.34.16 from the Hub).
- Large account pictures: a picture over 1 MB, or a WebP or AVIF, chosen as your avatar is made a PNG the login screen can read, instead of being refused.
- Updates with a large config: past 128 KB of config, an update skipped qs-rs and the helpers without a word; it no longer does, and setup and the
inircommand install and build where/tmpcan't run programs. - Lists you chose are kept: the screens picked for the bar, the dock and the Island, the modules and actions of Orbit's shelf and the blocks of the Island's player page were saved but ignored, and the shell kept its defaults; Material's Settings showed the defaults in those editors too (Material 2.36.2, iRiS 2.33.86, Waffle 2.34.16 from the Hub).
- iRiS bubbles off a screen leave it free: a screen where the bubbles are turned off kept their strip and its reserved space, and panels, menus, notices and the on-screen keyboard still stepped around it (snowarch/inir-hub#8, iRiS 2.33.86 from the Hub).
- Hub widget commands after a reload:
inir radio toggleand other widget commands keep reaching the widget after the shell reloads (Radio 2.3.1 from the Hub).
Issues / PRs
- Fixed #331 and snowarch/inir-hub#8.
- Included contributions from snowarch/inir-hub#6 and snowarch/inir-cli#1.
- Parts: qs-rs 0.1.7, inir-cli 0.2.13 and 0.2.14; Material 2.36.2, iRiS 2.33.86, Waffle 2.34.16, Countdown 1.1.0, Radio 2.3.1 and iNiR Docker 0.6.0 from the Hub.
Contributors
Thanks to @yukazakiri for the iNiR Docker widget, and to @anseriformas and @Xar0P for the reports behind the update and bubbles fixes.
Update: https://inir.space/docs/setup/#update
Fresh install: https://inir.space/docs/install/
Full changelog: https://github.com/snowarch/iNiR/blob/v3.1.1/CHANGELOG.md#311---2026-11-13