x11-wm/river-classic 0.3.17 DragonFly

Dynamic tiling Wayland compositor

System: DragonFly
Repository: DPorts
Maintainer: [email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License: GPLv3+
Categories: wayland, x11-wm
Package size: 213.4 KiB, 822.0 KiB installed

Description

River is a non-monolithic Wayland compositor. Unlike other Wayland compositors, river does not combine the compositor and window manager into one program. Instead, users can choose any window manager implementing the river-window-management-v1 protocol.

Note: river is currently early in development. Expect breaking changes and missing features. Bugs should however be rare at this point, if you run into one don't hesitate to open an issue upstream.

In the other systems

The newest version among them is 0.3.17, as upstream numbers it.

System

Port

Version

Vulnerabilities

Status

Maintainer

Last update

DragonFly

x11-wm/river-classic

0.3.17 newest

none known

[email protected]

FreeBSD

x11-wm/river-classic

0.3.17 newest

none known

[email protected]

2026-08-21

HardenedBSD

x11-wm/river-classic

0.3.17 newest

no data

[email protected]

GhostBSD

x11-wm/river-classic

0.3.17 newest

no data

[email protected]

Version history 1

0.3.17 2026-11-11

Upstream's version as each commit to the port's Makefile set it, or as this site first saw it in the system's packages; the tree's own revisions are not versions here.

Install

Binary package:

pkg install river-classic

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/x11-wm/river-classic && 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/river-classic"]
  me --> d0["devel/libevdev"]
  me --> d1["graphics/wayland"]
  me --> d2["x11-toolkits/wlroots020"]
  me --> d3["x11/libinput"]
  me --> d4["x11/libxkbcommon"]
  me --> d5["x11/pixman"]
  classDef this fill:#ab2b28,color:#ffffff,stroke:#ab2b28
  class me this

Dependencies

Run dependencies 6

No port depends on this one.

Configuration

No options to configure.

Service scripts: none

Message after installing

x11-wm/river-classic is a maintained fork of river 0.3 intended for users
that are happy with how river 0.3 works and do not wish to deal with the
breaking changes planned for the river 0.4.0+.

Please use x11-wm/river if you want to stay up-to-date with the latest
improvements, as it tracks stable upstream releases for river 0.4.0+.

For more info, see https://isaacfreund.com/blog/river-window-management/