x11-wm/awesome 4.3_6,1 DragonFly

Highly configurable, next generation framework window manager

System: DragonFly
Repository: DPorts
Maintainer: [email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License: GPLv2+
Categories: x11-wm
Package size: 868.0 KiB, 2227.5 KiB installed

Description

awesome is a highly configurable, next generation framework window manager for X. It is very fast, small, dynamic, heavily extensible using the Lua programming language, and licensed under the GNU GPLv2 license.

It is primarly targeted at power users, developers and any people dealing with every day computing tasks and who want to have fine-grained control on theirs graphical environment.

In the other systems

The newest version among them is 4.3, as upstream numbers it.

System

Port

Version

Vulnerabilities

Status

Maintainer

Last update

DragonFly

x11-wm/awesome

4.3_6,1 newest

none known

[email protected]

FreeBSD

x11-wm/awesome

4.3_7,1 newest

none known

[email protected]

OpenBSD

x11/awesome by name

4.3p3 newest

no data

The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <[email protected]>

NetBSD

wm/awesome by name

4.3nb25 newest

none known

[email protected]

2026-10-05

MidnightBSD

x11-wm/awesome

4.3_4,1 newest

no data

[email protected]

HardenedBSD

x11-wm/awesome

4.3_7,1 newest

no data

[email protected]

GhostBSD

x11-wm/awesome

4.3_7,1 newest

no data

[email protected]

Compare across BSDs

Install

Binary package:

pkg install awesome

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/x11-wm/awesome && make install clean

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["x11-wm/awesome"]
  u0["x11-wm/awesome-vicious"] --> me
  me --> d0["devel/dbus"]
  me --> d1["devel/gettext-runtime"]
  me --> d2["devel/glib20"]
  me --> d3["devel/lua-lgi"]
  me --> d4["graphics/cairo"]
  me --> d5["graphics/gdk-pixbuf2"]
  me --> d6["graphics/librsvg2-rust"]
  me --> d7["lang/lua53"]
  me -.-> dmore(["21 more"])
  classDef this fill:#ab2b28,color:#ffffff,stroke:#ab2b28
  class me this

Configuration

No options to configure.

Service scripts: none

Message after installing

===>   NOTICE:

The awesome port currently does not have a maintainer. As a result, it is
more likely to have unresolved issues, not be up-to-date, or even be removed in
the future. To volunteer to maintain this port, please create an issue at:

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla

More information about port maintainership is available at:

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/contributing/#ports-contributing