Post #1097068
2026-04-06 16:33 UTC
#fvwm #mwm #wm #wayland
Hello everyone, and Happy Easter!
I've been busy trying to get to this point, and I'm finding it useable enough that I wanted to mention it here.
I'm releasing some code!
cow, is a "Compositor on Wayland", which aims to look-and-feel like mwm and fvwm from X11, but instead, running on wayland.
https://codeberg.org/thomasadam/cow
The README.md (screenshot), and associated config file example should be enough to get you started for now, if you're interested.
There's still a tonne of things to do before I even consider a release -- and no doubt there's a shed load of bugs, etc.
So if you're interested in using a wayland window manager that looks like it's stuck in the early 90s, give this thing a go.
An IRC channel exists on libera.chat -- #cow-wayland if you want to come and say "hello".
Any issues... err, chuck an issue on Codeberg, please. Note that I won't be providing any mirrors of this on GH. Codeberg is where this project is officially hosted.
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@thomasadam@bsd.network 2026-04-10 13:56
To give you a more tangible idea of CoW’s functionality, I’ve thrown together this video: https://youtu.be/tRdhfRfdPuI Forgives the low quality. I’m not an “influencer”. Also, I sound slightly bunged up thanks to hay fever. If you can suffer all that, have fun!