BSD Ports

x11-wm/spectrwm 3.4.1_2 DragonFly

Small, dynamic tiling window manager for X11

System
DragonFly
Repository
DPorts
Maintainer
[email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License
ISCL
Categories
x11-wm
Package size
80.6 KiB, 199.5 KiB installed

Description

Spectrwm (previously known as scrotwm) is a small dynamic tiling window manager for X11. It tries to stay out of the way so that valuable screen real estate can be used for much more important stuff. It has sane defaults and does not require one to learn a language to do any configuration. It was written by hackers for hackers and it strives to be small, compact and fast.

It was largely inspired by xmonad and dwm. Both are fine products but suffer from things like: crazy-unportable-language-syndrome, silly defaults, asymmetrical window layout, "how hard can it be?" and good old NIH. Nevertheless dwm was a phenomenal resource and many good ideas and code was borrowed from it. On the other hand xmonad has great defaults, key bindings and xinerama support but is crippled by not being written in C.

In the other systems

The newest version among them is 3.7.0, as upstream numbers it.

SystemPortVersionVulnerabilitiesStatusMaintainerLast update
DragonFlyx11-wm/spectrwm3.4.1_2none known-[email protected]-
FreeBSDx11-wm/spectrwm3.7.0 newestnone known-[email protected]-
OpenBSDx11/spectrwm by name3.7.0p0 newestno data-Gonzalo L. R. <[email protected]>, Bjorn Ketelaars <[email protected]>-
NetBSDwm/spectrwm by name3.7.0 newestnone known-[email protected]-
GhostBSDx11-wm/spectrwm3.7.0 newestno data-[email protected]-

Compare across BSDs

Install

Binary package:

pkg install spectrwm

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/x11-wm/spectrwm && 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 10

No port depends on this one.