This makes a lot of sense, but... it'd be great to allow pulling out of a canvas into a second canvas for those of us with multiple screens (you at least end up needing one window per screen).

In general it feels like... more structure rather than less feels like it'd be the smoothest experience. I'll play with your Ctrl+K shortcut and see if it ends up feeling like I can get everywhere that I need quickly.

But... nice work!

Note for jj users like me: you need to `git lfs pull` if you want to `cargo run --release`!

Update: No luck creating any 'shell' workspaces (it looks like you use GNU-only flags to script) – I'll push a fix once I find it.

Also: the AGENTS.md is wrong JFYI - it points to portable-pty, when this is using alacritty_terminal's tty (on rustix-openpty)

Went the way of the dodo probably because it’s hard for non power users to grok.

But this is a power user tool - seeems like a fit!

the settings window overlaps with the minimap.

I think it'd be neat if you could zoom? The reason I'd use this over a tiling window manager is to fit more terminals on a screen at once. I think if there was a capability like the Strategic Zoom in Supreme Commander (video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hJY7exr9KU) it would be much easier to manage many terminals at once, and take advantage of the infinite canvas.

When libghostty[0] releases maybe you could use that so you don't have to build everything from scratch.

[0]: https://mitchellh.com/writing/libghostty-is-coming

One of the Niri tools I built for myself is to let me insert a new row up top, to expand up. Thats afaik not super easy in base Niri, constraints the spatial growth some.

I'm pretty close to having some persistence of terminal windows, tmux, etc in Niri, with some tools to dump current state nicely. Doing an actual restore operation would be a good thing to build towards.