wayland/cow 0.3p0 OpenBSD

stacking window manager for wayland

System: OpenBSD
Repository: OpenBSD ports
Maintainer: The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <[email protected]>
Port added: 2026-08-04
Last update: 2026-09-13
Commit: d0022355fe
Categories: wayland

Description

cow is a stacking window manager. Unlike other compositors based on wlroots, cow is a window manager using river as the compositor.

Version history 3

0.3 2026-09-10 bec760f3f2
0.2 2026-08-27 c6d77fd766
0.0.0pl20260801 2026-08-04 f3a54af2f0

Upstream's version as each commit to the port's Makefile set it, or as this site first saw it in the system's packages; the tree's own revisions are not versions here.

Install

Binary package:

pkg_add cow

From the ports tree:

cd /usr/ports/wayland/cow && make install

Dependency graph

Ports that need it on the left, what it needs to run on the right; at most 8 of each. "Dependencies" below lists them all.

graph LR
  me["wayland/cow"]
  me --> d0["devel/glib2"]
  me --> d1["devel/libevent2"]
  me --> d2["devel/pango"]
  me --> d3["graphics/cairo"]
  me --> d4["wayland/fnott"]
  me --> d5["wayland/foot"]
  me --> d6["wayland/fuzzel"]
  me --> d7["wayland/river"]
  me -.-> dmore(["6 more"])
  classDef this fill:#ab2b28,color:#ffffff,stroke:#ab2b28
  class me this

Dependencies

Build dependencies 6

Run dependencies 14

No port depends on this one.

Commit history 6

Date Commit Credits Log message

2026-09-13

d0022355fe

volker

wayland/cow: Update SITES and HOMEPAGE

moved to codeberg.org/cow-wm; DISTFILE remains identical

2026-09-10 bec760f3f2 volker wayland/cow: Update to 0.3

2026-08-27 c6d77fd766 volker wayland/cow: Update to 0.2

2026-08-06 d7166bb5df tb cow: also needs bison. noticed by aja

2026-08-06 1709549af2 landry wayland/cow: add missing BDEP on scdoc for manpages, spotted by ajacoutot@

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