x11-wm/compiz 0.8.8_15 DragonFly

Compiz Composite/Window Manager

System: DragonFly
Repository: DPorts
Maintainer: [email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License: GPLv2+, LGPL21+, MIT
Categories: x11-wm
Package size: 813.0 KiB, 5558.9 KiB installed

Description

Compiz is an OpenGL compositing manager that use GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap for binding redirected top-level windows to texture objects. It has a flexible plug-in system and it is designed to run well on most graphics hardware.

In the other systems

The newest version among them is 0.8.8, as upstream numbers it.

System

Port

Version

Vulnerabilities

Status

Maintainer

Last update

DragonFly

x11-wm/compiz

0.8.8_15 newest

none known

[email protected]

FreeBSD

x11-wm/compiz

0.8.8_18 newest

none known

[email protected]

NetBSD

wm/compiz by name

0.8.8nb106 newest

none known

[email protected]

2026-09-29

MidnightBSD

x11-wm/compiz

0.8.8_7 newest

no data

[email protected]

2026-09-06

HardenedBSD

x11-wm/compiz

0.8.8_18 newest

no data

[email protected]

GhostBSD

x11-wm/compiz

0.8.8_18 newest

no data

[email protected]

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Install

Binary package:

pkg install compiz

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/x11-wm/compiz && 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/compiz"]
  u0["deskutils/cairo-dock"] --> me
  u1["x11-wm/compiz-plugins-extra"] --> me
  u2["x11-wm/compiz-plugins-main"] --> me
  u3["x11-wm/compiz-plugins-unsupported"] --> me
  u4["x11-wm/emerald"] --> me
  me --> d0["devel/dbus"]
  me --> d1["devel/dbus-glib"]
  me --> d2["devel/gettext-runtime"]
  me --> d3["devel/glib20"]
  me --> d4["devel/libgtop"]
  me --> d5["graphics/cairo"]
  me --> d6["graphics/gdk-pixbuf2"]
  me --> d7["graphics/libGLU"]
  me -.-> dmore(["20 more"])
  classDef this fill:#ab2b28,color:#ffffff,stroke:#ab2b28
  class me this

Configuration

No options to configure.

Service scripts: none

Message after installing

This port has installed compiz-manager which is a wrapper to start
compiz.

If you are using gnome, you can use the configuration editor to set the
value of:

desktop->gnome->session->required_components->windowmanager = compiz-manager

This will enable compiz as your default window manager.