#fvwm

In 2003, fvwm launched a logo competition:

http://www.fvwm.org/fvwm-ml/10502.html

This was to coincide with fvwm's tenth birthday.

Several suggestions were put forward, as is archived here:

https://www.fvwm.org/Archive/Logos/

This was the winning entry -- there's links from the top of that page to past entries.

I just think it's a lovely piece of window manager history -- and shows the number of users who cared about this.

That was #fvwm in its prime -- alas, not any longer. :)

#cow #fvwm #wayland

Hey all. For anyone who's following along. I've just merged support for pages in #cow.

This is also accompanied with a pager.

From what testing I've done, this seems to work for me -- no doubt there's bugs.

The example config in the repo shows what you which settings to enable to make pages work.

If you're interested in giving it a go, please do!

#fvwm #x11 #wm

In case anyone's wondering, even though I'm working on #cow-wayland, I'm still working on, and fixing, #fvwm3 -- I don't see this changing anytime soon.

#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.

lovely minimalist black-white-gray window arrangement with almost no style of prompts or vim (easily build with #fvwm)

https://cdn.deskto.ps/images/864406672789024770.png

another weekend of tweaking #fvwm to my liking (inspired by /r/unixporn which still has some good wm stuff)

found some interesting minimalist gray/black/white styles and an example reviving the whole "desktop bigger than screen" size I used 30 years ago (literally) a lot 😂 https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/1rw4e1z/driftwm_infinite_canvas_wayland_compositor_no/

(still undecided in terms of userinterface how and what I want from my prompt, my window titles etc and where to display it all. e.g. starship's language icons are meaningless for me or git state)

#fvwm #fvwm3 #wayland

Let's play spot the difference!

One, both, or none of two screenshots are from fvwm3.

Can you guess which?

If not, could you maybe guess is one of the screenshots is based on wayland? ;)

In all seriousness, I'm trying to emulate the fvwm/mwm look in #hikari -- and I think the results are impressive, especially if you can't tell which image is from which #wm.

My only issue thus far is.. I somehow moved a window so the titlebar is off the screen and I literally cannot move the window. This is fvwm of course, because defaults are fun. I don't like tiling window managers, and I haven't configured keybindings to resize windows yet (but obviously its on my list).

So... How does one move / resize a window in fvwm when you cannot access its titlebar? The window is Firefox, so 'window ops' (middle mouse) seems unfunctional because _everything_ you click in Firefox does some Firefox bullshit.

#unix #fvwm #openbsd