CoW, which (sort-of) brings FVWM to Wayland, reaches version 0.4

Thomas Adam, one of the core developers of FVWM, has been working on CoW for a while now. CoW can best be described as FVWM for Wayland", which uniquely uses the River compositor. River, in turn, is unique in that it does not combine the compositor and window manager into a single program, allowing for a more traditional X11-like approach.

Adam released version 0.4 today, which comes with a load of fixes, changes, and minor improvements, as well as one bigger-ticket item: container windows.

This PR introduces the concept of a top-level container window.

This means a window can be subdivided into columns and rows (called panes) and can be resized independently of one another.

The idea for this has been unashamedly stolen from shod.

Thomas Adam

I've been keeping an eye on CoW ever since I learned about it when it was first released, and at some point soon I want to build a desktop around it for myself.