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.

4. Install a signal handler (USR1/HUP) -- this would make restarting the window manager trivial, and keeps river running - which is already tracking the windows available to it.

#river #wayland

Some tips I've learned from writing #cow...

1. Nested River (on #wayland/#x11) is your friend. This makes it very easy to run a nested WM instance on whatever one is using to test features. The inner-WM will need separate bindings from the "host" because that takes priority.

2. Remotely with wayvnc. Because #river is built on wlroots, #wayvnc is a great alternative if you want to do remote testing/development.

3. As with point 2., you can set the environment variable WL_HEADLESS_OUTPUTS=n, where "n" represents number of screens. This can be used with some VNC clients to allow "multi-monitor" support. This can be made even better with #wayvnc version 0.10 as this can render multiple outputs appropriately.

I'm sure there's more, but this is a practical start to some of the things I've been using with #cow.

#cow #fvwm #wayland

Context bindings.

It's now possible in #cow to bind mouse actions to different parts of a window border -- all four sides, and all four corners. Additionally, one can now bind actions to icons and the root window.

For example:

```
mouse I:0+right "menu-show WindowOps"
```

Pops up a menu to perform window operations, when the right mouse button is pressed on an icon. Actions defined in that menu will run in context of the non-iconified window (as opposed to the icon itself).

Key bindings are supported, too, but they can only be bound to titlebar buttons.

This is similar to what #fvwm used to allow.

Cc: @stuartl

CoW, is a window manager on top of the River compositor.

https://codeberg.org/thomasadam/cow

#cow #fvwm #wayland

I'm still playing around with this, but I suspect I'll merge it later.

You can now style menus individually via the `menu-style` command.

See screenshot attached.

CoW is a stacking window manager running on top of River:

https://codeberg.org/thomasadam/cow

#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

#fvwm #cow #wayland

Hi all -- I've added a slew of bug-fixes to CoW recently (thanks to @justine and others for the reports/testing!)

Additionally, I've added the following:

draw-exec -- a new command to draw a rectangle with the mouse to open a window at that size.

For example, the following binding (holding down meta (alt) and holding and dragging with the left mouse button) would open xterm once you've drawn a rectangle:

moocow 'mouse M+left draw-exec exec xterm'

If you'd like something more visual, see: https://youtu.be/8PkUKZDa6bQ

I'm not sure how useful this is, but it's fun, and was fun to implement it.

For the benefit of @stib, CoW is a wayland window manager for Linux/Unix running on the River compositor:

https://codeberg.org/thomasadam/cow

#fvwm #cow #wayland

Native menu support has been merged.

I've spent a good few weeks on this and am generally happy with the result.

See the screenshot attached.

Examples in cow.conf and man page.

Colour gradients can be applied -- and do not need to look as "boring" as in the screenshot.

Any issues, open something on Codeberg or come chat on #cow-wayland on irc.libera.chat

https://codeberg.org/thomasadam/cow