OK, #Linux, #GTK, #Wayland knowers. When I run Emacs, with a subtle bit of transparency in the theme, installed from Guix, on my current Ubuntu 25.10 distribution, the menu bar is totally transparent.

Where would I get started debugging that? I don't even know who I would report the bug to if I tied it down.

GNU Emacs 31.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.49,
cairo version 1.18.4)

Alt...

Snapshot of Emacs, with a menu open: the theme is mint green with slight transparency, the Edit menu is open and displaying normally, but the menu bar itself, between the top bar of the window and the texty main bit of Emacs, has a totally 100% transparent background, making the text hard to read.

#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!

#cow #fvwm #wayland

Currently working on squeeze titlebars.

This is something which some people wanted in fvwm, and it actually comes from #ctwm, whereby the titlebar was squeezed to its length so it didn't take up the whole width of the window.

Wayland doesn't have any shape support (a la XShape extension) so doing this manually is tricky.

Anyway, screenshot attached of what squeezed titlebars will look like in CoW. Options for left, centre, or right aligned.

I just found out that wl-mirror has a rotate option! I plan on working like this all the time now.

#wayland #sway #wlmirror #archlinux #unixporn

https://git.smithies.me.uk/openbsd-desktop-dotfiles/

#WAYLAND: Applications must NOT be allowed to choose the placement of their windows on the display. Can’t even request it. Developers of multi-window applications wishing to restore a user’s previous layout can go pound sand.

ALSO WAYLAND: Applications are responsible for drawing their own titlebar and providing controls for window resizing, closing, minimizing, maximizing, moving, dragging, and those of any pop-up windows as well. Go talk to d-bus about the current mouse pointer theme.

ALSO WAYLAND: If you just create the window using X11 instead then all this gets provided for you.

OK So I have discovered that I do not need seatd started at all. @vlkrs@bsd.network and this post helped.

https://www.reddit.com/r/openbsd/comments/1hp0pcd/wayland_works_as_root_but_no_keyboard_response_as/

Basically I just needed to add "/dev/wsmouse1" and "/dev/wskbd1" to /etc/fbtab.

OK #OpenBSD friends, Why when I install Sway or Mango ( #Wayland ) can I not get any keyboard control ? I can run them fine on #FreeBSD but on OpenBSD they both start but the keyboard does nothing on the mouse seems to work on waybar. I'm using known working configs for both.
I do see errors like permission denied for /dev/wskb* . I'm at a loss as I'm sure I had sway running last year ??
Even copied the startsway.sh and modified for mango but still no keyboard ???

Please boost for a larger reach. ❤️

@vlkrs@bsd.network Are you able to assist at all ? TIA

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=177600543425824&w=2

wayback is a stub Wayland compositor that hosts a rootful Xwayland server, letting you run your full X11 setup unchanged on top of Wayland. Built from source, wrote a small launch script and dwm came up fine with st.

Still experimental and needs some tweaking but the core concept works — keep your dwm, st and all your suckless tools, just drop Xorg underneath.

If you're a minimalist X11 user not ready to jump to a Wayland WM, keep an eye on this project!

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayback/wayback

#dwm #wayland #linux #suckless #slackware #xorg

My Wayland happy list: Mango, Foot, Fuzzel, wl-clipboard, kanshi, wlopm, swayidle, swayimg, swaylock, waybar and Dunst.

https://sr.ht/~kennylevinsen/wlsunset/

#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.

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.