#fvwm #mwm #wm #wayland

Hello everyone, and Happy Easter!

I've been busy trying to get to this point, and I'm finding it useable enough that I wanted to mention it here.

I'm releasing some code!

cow, is a "Compositor on Wayland", which aims to look-and-feel like mwm and fvwm from X11, but instead, running on wayland.

https://codeberg.org/thomasadam/cow

The README.md (screenshot), and associated config file example should be enough to get you started for now, if you're interested.

There's still a tonne of things to do before I even consider a release -- and no doubt there's a shed load of bugs, etc.

So if you're interested in using a wayland window manager that looks like it's stuck in the early 90s, give this thing a go.

An IRC channel exists on libera.chat -- #cow-wayland if you want to come and say "hello".

Any issues... err, chuck an issue on Codeberg, please. Note that I won't be providing any mirrors of this on GH. Codeberg is where this project is officially hosted.

Quite an interesting video detailing some bits of Motif history and writing a keygen for an Yggdrasil Motif using Motif in a Motif Window Manager.
Oh, and the hardware is an authentic 386DX 33 Mhz with a whopping 5MB of RAM (yes, megabytes).

#Motif #Unix #MWM

https://youtu.be/qtt1b1ZE6sc

"Even TinyWM is twice as large." 🤣

Nice feature list

20 LOC.
No modes.
No "eye-candy".
No mouse control.
No virtual desktops.
No configuration files.
Not standards-compliant.
No title bars, no status bars, no buttons, no borders, no menus, etc.
All windows are full-screen, just one is visible at any given time.
Absolutely adaptable to your needs.
Includes just what is strictly needed.

I will try this...

https://github.com/lslvr/mwm

#mwm #minimalist #windowmanager #xorg

Waxing poetic lyrics

Nature inspires us To wax poetic lyrics To write songs and poetry To honor this wonderful Hospitable and giving phenomena That holds us in its warm lap Like a loving, kind mother ➰➰➰ In response to Moonwashed Musings Weekly Prompt – Poetic, hosted by Eugenia #Keepitalive #MWM Waxing poetic lyrics

https://norbertwebergermany.wordpress.com/2024/09/26/waxing-poetic-lyrics/

Fedora 41 to Introduce New Spin with Miracle Window Manager
https://debugpointnews.com/fedora-miracle-window-manager/

#linux #opensource #fedora #mwm