Telemetry

vicinae collects anonymous telemetry in order to help improving the software. This page details what is collected and why. Users can opt-out at anytime by changing a single config item.

Telemetry breakdown

System info

vicinae collects basic system information when starting up the daemon. Here is a typical payload sent to the vicinae servers:

 {
   "userId": "user-344a37bd-2d65-49ad-9a2f-27769334f64e",
   "desktops": [
      "niri"
   ],
   "vicinaeVersion": "v0.20.5",
   "displayProtocol": "wayland",
   "architecture": "x86_64",
   "operatingSystem": "linux",
   "buildProvenance": "local",
   "locale": "en_US", // some vicinae features are affected by localization
   "screens": [
      {
         "resolution": {
            "width": 5120,
            "height": 1440
         },
         "scale": 1
      }
   ],
   "chassisType": "desktop",
   "kernelVersion": "6.16.7-gentoo",
   "productId": "gentoo",
   "productVersion": "2.18"
}

• We only send information that can help us make better decisions for development or testing.
• We don't send personally identifiable information: the userId is unique to vicinae and does not use your machine ID. It cannot be used to reliably fingerprint you.

Disable telemetry

Telemetry is opt-out by default. It can be turned off in one of two ways:

• Turn it off from the "general" settings tab
• Edit the telemetry object in your configuration