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From:
Volker Schlecht <openbsd-ports@schlecht.dev>
Subject:
Re: [NEW] wayland/cow
To:
ports <ports@openbsd.org>, Landry Breuil <landry@openbsd.org>
Date:
Sun, 2 Aug 2026 12:05:53 +0200

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Ping, with an update to the most recent commit - CoW is in active development
and it's a bit of a moving target but I think it would be nice to have at least
one river-based window manager in ports, and this one works without extensive
patching.

On 7/5/26 12:34 PM, Volker Schlecht wrote:
> Comment:
> stacking window manager for wayland
> 
> Description:
> cow is a stacking window manager. Unlike other compositors based on wlroots,
> cow is a window manager using river as the compositor.
> 
> WWW: https://codeberg.org/thomasadam/cow
> 
> Seems to work fine here on amd64. waybar seems to *need* the custom cow
> configuration; both my own waybar config and the default configuration of
> the port don't work.
> 
> The best way to run it, seems to be copying cow/cow.conf and river/init to
> $XDG_CONFIG_HOME and then just running "river", maybe it would be worth adding
> a README explaining as much.
> 
> Thoughts? OK?