BSD Portsx11-wm/herbstluftwm 0.9.5_2 DragonFly
Manual tiling window manager for X11
- System
- DragonFly
- Repository
- DPorts
- Maintainer
- [email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
- License
- BSD2CLAUSE
- Categories
- x11-wm
- Package size
- 521.8 KiB, 1913.3 KiB installed
Description
herbstluftwm is a manual tiling window manager for X11 using Xlib and Glib. Its main features can be described with:
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The layout is based on splitting frames into subframes which can be split again or can be filled with windows (similar to i3 or musca)
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Tags (or workspaces, or virtual desktops) can be added/removed at runtime. Each tag contains an own layout
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Exactly one tag is viewed on each monitor. The tags are monitor independent (similar to xmonad)
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It is configured at runtime via IPC calls from herbstclient. So the configuration file is just a script which is run on startup. (Similar to wmii or musca)
In the other systems
The newest version among them is 0.9.6, as upstream numbers it.
| System | Port | Version | Vulnerabilities | Status | Maintainer | Last update |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DragonFly | x11-wm/herbstluftwm | 0.9.5_2 | none known | - | [email protected] | - |
| FreeBSD | x11-wm/herbstluftwm | 0.9.6 newest | none known | - | [email protected] | - |
| OpenBSD | x11/herbstluftwm by name | 0.9.6 newest | no data | - | Lucas Gabriel Vuotto <[email protected]>, Florian Viehweger <[email protected]> | - |
| NetBSD | wm/herbstluftwm by name | 0.9.6nb1 newest | none known | - | [email protected] | 2026-09-29 |
| HardenedBSD | x11-wm/herbstluftwm | 0.9.6 newest | no data | - | [email protected] | - |
| GhostBSD | x11-wm/herbstluftwm | 0.9.6 newest | no data | - | [email protected] | - |
Install
Binary package:
pkg install herbstluftwmFrom DPorts:
cd /usr/dports/x11-wm/herbstluftwm && make install cleanDependency 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.
Dependencies
Run dependencies 12
No port depends on this one.
Configuration
No options to configure.
- Service scripts
- none
Message after installing
You need to place your own autostart file in this path: $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/herbstluftwm if you don't use the default (/usr/local/etc/xdg/herbstluftwm/autostart). Keep in mind that most of the scripts are written in bash syntax.