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87d

This is still very much a WIP #Cow ( #fvwm for #wayland ) setup and I will be changing things, But OMG! It is just so configurable and this really appeals to me. I've not even used #waybar as I decided to use what was available in the field of cow aka cowbuttons and cowpager. I think I'm regressing back to the 90's. 🤣
#FreeBSD #RunBSD

https://codeberg.org/thomasadam/cow

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86d

Am I going to regress even further into the 90's with my #CoW ( #fvwm for #wayland ) window manager by adding conky to the mix ? 🤔

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100d

Still playing around with all the settings like gradients in CoW using only colors from gruvbox as I'm quite partial to those colors. There are so many configurable options in CoW that it's going to take me a while to get everything set up just the way I like.

https://codeberg.org/thomasadam/cow

#Wayland #fvwm #CoW #RiverWM #FreeBSD

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99d

#fvwm #cow #wayland

Hey all,

I'm slowly working toward a default theme, per: https://codeberg.org/thomasadam/cow/issues/55

See the screenshot attached.

This mimics the AnotherLevel theme from RedHat 5.X days, from early 1994 onward.

This is how I started out with fvwm.

No, it's not nostalgic for me, but I do like how it looks.

I suspect some of you might not.

If you want to change it, now's your chance, otherwise this is going to become the default theme...

Have fun!

CoW is a window manager for wayland running on top of the River compositor, see: https://codeberg.org/thomasadam/cow

A grey wallpaper with tiled black and white cows on it. Sits atop are two windows, one focused in green, the other in brown. A menu in grey is also shown.

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85d

Haha! I've not only managed to make a bar for #CoW ( #fvwm for #Wayland ) using only cowpager and cowbuttons, I've managed to script it so each output has it's own independent bar too. The scripting could probably be tidied up and there is more than likely an easier way to achieve the same thing but it works for me. 😉

Dotfiles are here if anyone is interested?

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98d

Nice! You can now hide the cursor after a specified time in #cow ( #fvwm for #Wayland ).

https://codeberg.org/thomasadam/cow/commit/5f79061eb9f90aad2980cbcbd8daf130af481e84

#RiverWM

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97d

Was looking for a wee utility to give me keyboard status information for #waybar on my #cow desktop and stumbled upon this. Might be of use to other folk too?

https://github.com/drougas/xkb-monitor

#Wayland #fvwm #riverwm

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41d

So as promised I've installed #NetBSD onto my Dell Optiplex 3080 tower PC. It's not much just yet as I only have the basics installed for now before I attempt #Wayland using #RiverWM and #CoW . Oh nearly forgot I'm using the default ffs for my filesystem as I know someone would ask. 😉 #RunBSD

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66d

More #NetBSD thoughts:

I'm an #i3wm / #sway or #KDE #Plasma guy. I tried #OpenBSD's default wm for about a minute, but it was just too jarring for me. I also used #cwm for a while, and it's actually nicely configurable, but I eventually reverted to i3 on OpenBSD. I haven't tried Sway yet, but #Wayland's supposedly working in "Fish Linux" now. ;)

But #ctwm? Look, it's pretty ancient, and it's not a totally perfect fit for my worfklow, but I'm actually kinda diggin' it!

It's also probably the most attractive default GUI of any of the BSDs, considering that obsd gives you a pretty loud bright red or bright blue titlebar motif-looking thing (not knocking motif, just the primary color choice), and #FreeBSD gives you (checks notes) no GUI by default. XD

ctwm isn't quite as flexible as i3/sway, but it's just configurable enough to keep me coming back and tinkering away at it. The way the warpring function (alt+tab, in other words) works is pretty obtuse (only moving forward or backward in the window list, never re-ordering based on recency), but once I learned how to exclude windows (X11 classes or window titles) from the warpring, it became a ton more usable.

I also figured out how to enable active titlebar highlight (it drives me nuts when that's disabled or very subtle, how do you even not understand that basic tenet of usability?) and even how to assign an xpm image to the titlebar so it looks pretty.

Fun stuff!

I should post another screenshot. ;)

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15d

Has any #NetBSD user that is running #Wayland got #Firefox to run?

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40d

#cow #fvwm #wayland

Container Windows?

I've working on a proof-of-concept for a top-level container window which is able to contain other windows in a grid/column fashion.

I've completely and unashamedly (imitation is the highest form of flattery, apparently) stolen the idea of this from shod:

https://seninha.org/projects/shod.html

But I do like the concept a lot.

You can see how this might work from the screenshot below.

I'm still toying around with the idea of this, and I've been working on this since Tuesday this week, in the evenings. I'm hoping to have this mostly done by Sunday, other activities notwithstanding.

Maybe CoW now needs to be renamed to: Container On Wayland? Heh!

Interesting idea, eh? ;)

In the screenshot, you're looking at a container window also with a tabbed window, so they're still supported as-is in CoW, for those who use tabbed windows already.

Cc: @seninha

A screenshot of a Unix computer screen.

Grey background, with a teddy clone (an orange teddy bear) in the top-left. Next to it is a window whose border matches the style of mwm. It's mostly red. It's split into four, the left side has xterm running cowsay, into which it says "Coo - I've been shod?". On the right is the Dillo web browser next to it.

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8d

Plasma (Wayland) on FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT in QEMU with Virtual Machine Manager

… is this unusual?

I was previously unable to use Wayland on FreeBSD with virt-manager (or VirtualBox).

https://github.com/freebsd/drm-kmod/pull/517 is not yet merged:

― virtio-gpu: add driver on a LinuxKPI virtio layer

https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1xksu79/plasma_wayland_on_freebsd_160current_in_qemu_with/

#FreeBSD #QEMU #Wayland #KDE #Plasma #AI

Screenshot: Wayland ― Info Center, and other apps, on FreeBSD in QEMU.

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Screenshot: Virtual Machine Manager preferences for Spice Server, OpenGL enabled, Intel GPU selected.

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Screenshot: fastfetch output in a Konsole window.

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2d

#cow #wayland #fvwm #shod

If anyone's interested, I've released a quick video showing some of the things one can do with container window is in cow:

https://youtu.be/UsYaSRhf6dw

What is CoW? It's a window manager for Wayland, using river as its compositor:

https://cow-wm.codeberg.page/cow/

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32d

#wayland #menus

Hey all,

Does anyone know if there's anything similar to xdg-menu [0] for Wayland?

I know most compositors have some sort of menu -- how are they typically handling entries in menus?

I suspect it's compositor-specific, but I'm curious in case that's not the case.

I'm asking because #CoW could benefit from that.

[0]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xdg-menu

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30d

Strange must be a #Wayland issue on #NetBSD as I cannot get Firefox to run on either Sway or River/CoW. It only runs on X and yes I have set the correct env for firefox as already use it with #OpenBSD and #FreeBSD .