fedniridms

Install script to configure a brand-new minimal Fedora install with Niri and Dank Material Shell (DMS) on an NVIDIA GPU.

What it does

1. Preflight — verifies Fedora, sudo, network, base CLI tools, and an NVIDIA GPU.
2. System update — dnf upgrade --refresh.
3. Terra repository + sub-repos — installs terra-release and the terra-release-extras, terra-release-mesa, terra-release-nvidia (and terra-release-multimedia on Fedora 43+) subpackages, which lay down the matching .repo files. Terra provides the NVIDIA driver, Niri, DMS, and the DMS greeter, so no RPM Fusion is needed. See https://developer.fyralabs.com/terra/installing.
4. NVIDIA drivers (from Terra) — akmod-nvidia + CUDA + VAAPI; sets nvidia-drm.modeset=1, blacklists nouveau, waits for the kernel module to build.
5. Niri compositor — installs niri. All Wayland session bits (xdg-desktop-portal, PipeWire, Polkit, etc.) come along automatically as Niri's dependencies.
6. Dank Material Shell — installs dms from Terra. quickshell, dgop, fonts, and other DMS deps are pulled in automatically.
7. File manager — installs nautilus.
8. DMS greeter — enables Copr avengemedia/danklinux (the greeter is not in Terra) and installs dms-greeter (which pulls in greetd). Writes /etc/greetd/config.toml with command = "dms-greeter --command niri" and sets the graphical target as default. Docs: https://danklinux.com/docs/dankgreeter/
9. Niri config — writes a starter ~/.config/niri/config.kdl that auto-spawns DMS and sets the NVIDIA Wayland env vars.

The script is idempotent — re-running it skips anything already in place.

Usage

From a TTY on a freshly logged-in minimal Fedora install (run as your normal user, not root):

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lmaule/fedniridms/main/install.sh -o install.sh
chmod +x install.sh
./install.sh

Or, if you cloned the repo:

git clone https://github.com/lmaule/fedniridms.git
cd fedniridms
./install.sh

When it finishes, reboot so the NVIDIA kernel command line (nvidia-drm.modeset=1) and the freshly built akmod-nvidia module take effect. On reboot you'll be greeted by dms-greeter (running under greetd); log in and Niri will start with DMS auto-spawning.

Verifying after reboot

nvidia-smi
cat /sys/module/nvidia_drm/parameters/modeset   # expect: Y
dnf repolist --enabled | grep -i terra
systemctl status greetd
niri --version