wayland

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

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 ? 🤔

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

#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

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?

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

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

#RiverWM

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

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. ;)