x11-wm/selectwm 0.4.1_12 DragonFly

Select a window manager when starting X11

System: DragonFly
Repository: DPorts
Maintainer: [email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License: GPLv2+
Categories: x11-wm
Package size: 19.6 KiB, 54.1 KiB installed

Description

This is a small application (using GTK+) which lets you select your window manager. It looks for a file named .selectwmrc in the user's directory which contains a list of window managers.

When you start X it should show a list which lets you choose your window manager (by double clicking on it with the mouse or with the arrow keys and the return or space key).

In the other systems

The newest version among them is 0.4.1, as upstream numbers it.

System

Port

Version

Vulnerabilities

Status

Maintainer

Last update

DragonFly

x11-wm/selectwm

0.4.1_12 newest

none known

[email protected]

FreeBSD

x11-wm/selectwm

0.4.1_12 newest

none known

[email protected]

NetBSD

wm/selectwm by name

0.4.1nb52 newest

none known

[email protected]

2026-09-29

GhostBSD

x11-wm/selectwm

0.4.1_12 newest

no data

[email protected]

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Install

Binary package:

pkg install selectwm

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/x11-wm/selectwm && 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/selectwm"]
  me --> d0["accessibility/at-spi2-core"]
  me --> d1["devel/gettext-runtime"]
  me --> d2["devel/glib20"]
  me --> d3["graphics/cairo"]
  me --> d4["graphics/gdk-pixbuf2"]
  me --> d5["print/freetype2"]
  me --> d6["print/harfbuzz"]
  me --> d7["x11-fonts/fontconfig"]
  me -.-> dmore(["2 more"])
  classDef this fill:#ab2b28,color:#ffffff,stroke:#ab2b28
  class me this

Dependencies

Run dependencies 10

No port depends on this one.