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Thomas Adam

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I maintain/contribute to various projects such as: got, fvwm, tmux, x11cp

User/Contributor/Developer of {Free,Net,Open}BSD as well as Linux.

Avid cryptic crossword solver, especially the Guardian cryptics.

I'm the person behind the cryptic crossword clues on: @LearnCrypticCrosswords@zirk.us

From England, United Kingdom

382 Followers

78 Following

14 Posts

Joined October 21, 2022

Website:

https://xteddy.org

Gemini Capsule:

gemini.xteddy.org

Window Managers:

fvwm{2,3}, CoW

X11CP:

https://x11cp.org

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Thomas Adam @thomasadam@bsd.network · 3d ago

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#vt320 #tty #cables Hey all, I'm wondering if there's anyone out there who can point me in the eight direction. I have a VT320 terminal I want to use, but am lacking the MMJ cable -- this is quite common. I'm not in a position to create one myself, and even then, likely won't be able to connect to a computer without a USB to serial converter anyway. I'm curious if there's anyone in the UK/Europe who makes these cables, in which case I'm happy to pay for that -- I just don't want to try making this myself, as I don't have the time. Any help much appreciated.

Thomas Adam @thomasadam@bsd.network · May 10, 2026

Replying to @mms@mastodon.bsd.cafe

@mms@mastodon.bsd.cafe Aww. At 43, for me, it’s Button Moon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Button_Moon

Thomas Adam @thomasadam@bsd.network · May 06, 2026

Replying to @hobbs@dobbs.town

@hobbs@dobbs.town For what it’s worth, I’m in the process of developing cow: https://codeberg.org/thomasadam/cow It’s got more holes in it than Swiss cheese, mind.

Thomas Adam @thomasadam@bsd.network · Apr 30, 2026

Replying to @stelim@chaos.social

@stelim @sushee Indeed -- that sucks, and isn't fair, especially if it's emotive as well.

Thomas Adam @thomasadam@bsd.network · Apr 30, 2026

Replying to @sushee@ohai.social

@sushee :'(. Everybody does...

Thomas Adam @thomasadam@bsd.network · Apr 18, 2026

#cow #fvwm #wayland

Hey all. For anyone who's following along. I've just merged support for pages in #cow.

This is also accompanied with a pager.

From what testing I've done, this seems to work for me -- no doubt there's bugs.

The example config in the repo shows what you which settings to enable to make pages work.

If you're interested in giving it a go, please do!

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#cow - BSD Network

Thomas Adam @thomasadam@bsd.network · Apr 10, 2026

Replying to @thomasadam@bsd.network

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!

Thomas Adam @thomasadam@bsd.network · Apr 06, 2026

#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.

Thomas Adam @thomasadam@bsd.network · Mar 13, 2026

Replying to @markmoxon@universeodon.com

@markmoxon Gosh, thank you, Mark. It probably is -- although from memory it felt as though prohibiting "*LIST" was more of a deliberate action than not. Either way, you've given me enough to consider. I shall look forward to reading your articles nonetheless! Thanks again!

Thomas Adam @thomasadam@bsd.network · Mar 13, 2026

Replying to @markmoxon@universeodon.com

@markmoxon@universeodon.com I shall, Thank you. One of the curios for me, is I recall certain programs back in the day, somehow, scrambling the "*L" command -- whereby it would just throw a hissy-fit. I presume his was done through some assembly instruction, but I was never sure how... Any thoughts? Thanks again for all your writing, I'm really enjoying it so far.

Thomas Adam @thomasadam@bsd.network · Mar 13, 2026

Replying to @markmoxon@universeodon.com

@markmoxon@universeodon.com Wow -- Why didn't I know about the sooner? Thanks for sharing! I'll be reading this as well!

Thomas Adam @thomasadam@bsd.network · Mar 06, 2026

#gameoftrees #macOS #got

Hi all.

Just putting the feelers out as I'd love to know how many folks are using got on MacOs.

@teajaygrey@rap.social does an amazing job every time I make a release of gameoftrees portable, but I could do with knowing how many of you are using it.

I made a change in the 0.123 release to fix socket handling for services such as gotwebd, which is good, but it's telling that it's taken this long, so I wonder how many users we have.

Let me know -- you can always email me at: thomas.adam22@gmail.com

Please boost this as much as possible, I'd appreciate it.

Thomas Adam @thomasadam@bsd.network · Feb 25, 2026

#gameoftrees #got

I've released got-portable 0.123

This is in-line with got(1):

https://gameoftrees.org/releases/changes.html

There is one addition in this -portable release but is out-of-band with got(1) and it's a fix for chroot(1) handling in gotwebd which was not being passed to children of gotwebd. This will be in got-0.124 when that releases.

On MacOS, socket handling has been reworked to use fcntl() for a few SOCKET_* flags otherwise supported on other platforms.

Also -portable-specific is a new got-portable(7) man page:

https://gameoftrees.org/got-portable.7.html

Which aims to collate useful information for users of got(1) on non-OpenBSD platforms.

As usual, the changelog for -portable is here:

https://gameoftrees.org/releases/portable/CHANGELOG

Usual mirror (xteddy) has been updated.

Any questions please shout at me!

Thomas Adam @thomasadam@bsd.network · Mar 13, 2025

Replying to @aram@aoir.social

@aram@aoir.social Speak for yourself! I can easily understand that 2+2 = 5. Err... actually, maybe you're right after all. I'll go fetch my little black book with me poems in, just in case...

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