Thomas Adam

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I maintain/contribute to various projects such as: got, fvwm, tmux, x11cp

User/Contributor/Developer of {Free,Net,Open}BSD as well as Linux.

Avid cryptic crossword solver, especially the Guardian cryptics.

I'm the person behind the cryptic crossword clues on: https://zirk.us/@LearnCrypticCrosswords

From England, United Kingdom

Websitehttps://xteddy.org
Gemini Capsulegemini.xteddy.org
Window Managersfvwm{2,3}, CoW
X11CPhttps://x11cp.org

@hobbs For what it’s worth, I’m in the process of developing cow:

https://codeberg.org/thomasadam/cow

It’s got more holes in it than Swiss cheese, mind.

cow

Compositor on Wayland -- a stacking window manager using river as the compositor. cow aims to behave like fvwm and mwm from X11.

Codeberg.org
@jns @thomasadam That cow stalks the Adam's 24/7
@jns Heh. He lives in that spot all year round. Just on the edge of our kitchen. My wife decorates him throughout the years as different personas. He was at our wedding as a matrimoooooooonial cow. 😉
@stelim @sushee Indeed -- that sucks, and isn't fair, especially if it's emotive as well.

#cow #fvwm #wayland

CoW has now gained a new "module" -- cowident.

The image below shows what it does. When you run it, it will force you to select a window to then report properties on.

It's analogous to FvwmIdent from #fvwm3

Not the sexiest thing in the world, I know, but maybe useful both for those tweaking their config, and for diagnostic purposes.

That's why #FvwmIdent was created -- to allow for diagnostics.

@sushee :'(. Everybody does...

#cow

It's getting sunnier here in England, and so Angus needs some sun protection (apparently!)

Mooo.

#crypticcrossword

Todays' Guardian crossword -- 29,994 was set by Tramp.

For me, Tramp is up there with the likes of Boatman, Enigmatist, and Brendan for being a tricky setter, but excellent surfaces.

For instance:

9,12dn: "Flooring Keir Starmer – depict end, primarily lost to Reform (13,6)"

Definition is: "flooring".

Nice spot of Tramp's to realise that if you anagramise "Keir Starmer depict e" (because "end primarily" is "e", and "lost to Reform" is the anagram indicator -- not to mention Reform is a so-called Political Party here in the UK), you get:

KIDDERMINSTER CARPET

Which looks like this:

https://museumofcarpet.org.uk/2013/07/26/the-last-kidderminster-weave-carpet-from-kidderminster/

The last ‘Kidderminster Weave’ Carpet from Kidderminster

In January 2010, The Carpet Museum Trust was delighted to be one of 350 museums selected to display an object from their collection in the BBC History of the World project. There could be no other …

Museum of Carpet
@haddock @joel I used to use a similar setup. These days I’m using Bitwarden. Xiang mean I wouldn’t go back to that.