Thomas Adam @thomasadam@bsd.network

#xwinman #wm #des

Hi all,

I've had a few instances of people contacting me about the site of xwinman.org

When I mirrored it, I did say as just that -- a mirror of the information, which is found here:

https://xteddy.org/xwinman/

I've no intention of letting that go.

But, it seems there's a few people who are disputing the legality of these pages. and/or, wishing to clone the content for themselves and "modernise the CSS".

This seems odd to me. and should not happen.

To this end, I've added the mirrored files of xwinman.org here:

https://codeberg.org/thomasadam/xwinman

... and want anyone to know that these are the official files from the original mirror.

Chris Sibenmann wrote a piece about some optimism being available in Wayland now that #cow exists:

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/WaylandOptionsOptimism

I've left a comment on that post (it's not the first time, I've "chatted" with cks a bit over the years about fvwm).

But he raises a point about widget libraries which could end up dropping support for X11. This is something I'd previously noted:

https://gist.github.com/ThomasAdam/5377540b3025f7f04735d96ee64354fd#so-what-does-this-matter
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/WaylandOptionsOptimism

To me, if/once this happens, I'm struggling to see the relevance of X11 -- unless the "X11 Community" is willing to fork these libraries to keep X11 support going.

Seems like a lot of work to me...

#twm #cow (#fvwm)

As a bit of fun, I've made a twm theme for cow.

Screenshot attached.

I say fun -- I had to create the XPM files for the titlebar buttons, but that's cool. I like the XPM format.

There's been a few modifications to CoW and cowiconman to support relief themes for some components (buttons in cowiconman, mostly) -- but these are improvements which were worthwhile making any way.

This has been merged to main...

I've always had a soft spot for twm, so being able to emulate the style in cow is rather interesting, I think. :)

Enjoy!

#cow

In other cow news, I came home the other day to Angus sporting a new ensemble.

Photos attached.

Heh. Heh. I think we need to get out more...

For those who are perhaps unfamiliar with the reference, see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Miranda

#music

See: https://xteddy.org/music.html

Indeed, that URL and the information in it is perhaps twenty years out of date but still relevant.

Since almost two years ago, I've sent my dad a C90 cassette and have amassed around 26 of them:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1V-0d5A7uiwdNvdJuOTRJeUfqLoZNDMytq5_js1231hQ/edit?usp=sharing

I have no intention of stopping -- and what fun it is!

I have to thank @lgsl for the logo -- without whom, none of the CoW-related things would have been possible. I don't to art...

#cow #fvwm #wayland

#cow has a new home:

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

Indeed, the repo has also moved (mooved?):

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

Existing https:// clones will work, but I encourage you to update.

Issues and PRs have been migrated, it seems.

Any questions please let me know.

#fvwm #cow #wayland

I've just merged support for style definitions.

This works similarly to `rule {}` blocks, except that `style {}` blocks operate on windows and only allow for a set of properties to be changed.

That's the core distinction between style and rule -- rules allow for commands to be run on events.

I'm hoping this will make changing window appearances for example easier.

Here'a a link to the docs regarding this:

https://thomasadam.codeberg.page/cow/man/development/cow.1.html#style_-d_-n__name____-g___-t_output_:desk__-n__name___-s_sel____...__