x11-wm/leftwm 0.5.4_1 DragonFly

Tiling window manager for Adventurers

System: DragonFly
Repository: DPorts
Maintainer: [email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License: MIT
Categories: x11-wm
Package size: 8904.4 KiB, 29910.2 KiB installed

Description

LeftWM is a tiling window manager written in Rust that aims to be stable and performant. LeftWM is designed to do one thing and to do that one thing well: be a window manager. LeftWM therefore follows the following mantra:

LeftWM is not a compositor.
LeftWM is not a lock screen.
LeftWM is not a bar. But, there are lots of good bars out there. With themes, picking one is as simple as setting a symlink.

In the other systems

The newest version among them is 0.5.5, as upstream numbers it.

System

Port

Version

Vulnerabilities

Status

Maintainer

Last update

DragonFly

x11-wm/leftwm

0.5.4_1 behind since 2026-09-18

none known

[email protected]

FreeBSD

x11-wm/leftwm

0.5.5_1 newest

none known

[email protected]

2026-10-14

NetBSD

wm/leftwm by name

0.5.5 newest

none known

[email protected]

2026-09-18

HardenedBSD

x11-wm/leftwm

0.5.4_14 behind since 2026-09-18

no data

[email protected]

GhostBSD

x11-wm/leftwm

0.5.4_14 behind since 2026-09-18

no data

[email protected]

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Install

Binary package:

pkg install leftwm

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/x11-wm/leftwm && 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/leftwm"]
  me --> d0["devel/desktop-file-utils"]
  me --> d1["x11/libXinerama"]
  me --> d2["x11/libXrandr"]
  classDef this fill:#ab2b28,color:#ffffff,stroke:#ab2b28
  class me this

Dependencies

Run dependencies 3

No port depends on this one.

Configuration

No options to configure.

Service scripts: none

Message after installing

- If you want to see more than a black screen when you login, select a
theme.

mkdir -p ~/.config/leftwm/themes
cd ~/.config/leftwm/themes
ln -s PATH_TO_THE_THEME_YOU_LIKE current

- LeftWM has very few dependencies, this isn't always the case for themes.
Themes typically require the following to be installed. However, this is up
to the author of the theme, and could be different.

List of common dependencies for themes:

   graphics/feh
   sysutils/conky
   x11/dmenu
   x11/hs-xmobar
   x11/polybar
   x11-wm/compton
   x11-wm/picom

- LeftWM requires that $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is set in the environment as it
uses this directory.

Details: https://github.com/leftwm/leftwm/wiki/XDG_RUNTIME_DIR