Request: Fine horizontal scroll action

[yebei199]

Right now Niri only has actions like center-column, which snap a column to the middle of the screen. But when a column is wider than the screen, I often need to adjust the view by a small offset. Centering doesn’t line up, and jumping to the next column feels misaligned. It would be very helpful to have actions like scroll-column-left/right with small step sizes for precise horizontal adjustment.

[YaLTeR]

Why do you have a column wider than the screen?

[YaLTeR]

Moving the view with a window less than the full width and more than the full width are two separate cases, with the latter spawning more design concerns and questions than the former

[yebei199]

Moving the view with a window less than the full width and more than the full width are two separate cases, with the latter spawning more design concerns and questions than the former

Even just implementing the former is very useful, if someone has two monitors, this kind of fine-tuning can keep the column in a more suitable position.

[alicealysia]

Free-scrolling and disabling snapping have quested in the past:
#1347

However scrolling and snapping are baked into more parts of the code than you may expect.

I suspect there's more reasons for it than just convenience, but I haven't tried messing with that part of the code for fear of breaking things.

Anyways, I generally work around this by resizing a terminal window to nudge the app into the right position.

Though, I find myself needing to do that fairly rarely, and tend to just use Super + middle mouse button to slide a window into the sides or centre of the screen. Most of the time anyways. Also have Super + C bound to centre the window.

[yebei199]

But this feature is truly appealing, like a kitten gently scratching at my heart.

[MintyDoggo]

I do agree but mainly for my use case I just need 2 more actions exposed: left align column and right align column. Kind of similar to how the gesture works