BSD Ports

x11-wm/picom 11.2 DragonFly

Lightweight X11 compositor

System
DragonFly
Repository
DPorts
Maintainer
[email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License
MIT, MPL20
Categories
x11-wm
Package size
179.3 KiB, 495.9 KiB installed

Description

Picom (formerly a Compton fork) is a standalone compositor for X11 for window managers without built-in compositing.

Features:

  • Rendering with optional VSync via OpenGL or XRender
  • Transparent windows, menus, titlebars, borders
  • Shadows and colored shadows
  • Fading effects
  • Bluring of background
  • GLSL fragment shader for window contents
  • Conditional settings
  • Config, log and PID file support
  • Remote control via DBus

In the other systems

The newest version among them is 13, as upstream numbers it.

SystemPortVersionVulnerabilitiesStatusMaintainerLast update
DragonFlyx11-wm/picom11.2 behind since 2026-10-02none known-[email protected]-
FreeBSDx11-wm/picom13 newestnone known-[email protected]-
OpenBSDx11/picom by name13 newestno data-The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <[email protected]>-
NetBSDx11/picom by name11.2nb2 behind since 2026-10-02none known-[email protected]2026-10-02
MidnightBSDx11-wm/picom13 newestno data-[email protected]2026-10-18
HardenedBSDx11-wm/picom13 newestno data-[email protected]-
GhostBSDx11-wm/picom13 newestno data-[email protected]-

Compare across BSDs

Install

Binary package:

pkg install picom

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/x11-wm/picom && 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.

Dependencies

Run dependencies 13

No port depends on this one.