#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.

#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.