BSD Portsx11-wm/sway 1.12 DragonFly
i3-compatible Wayland compositor
- System
- DragonFly
- Repository
- DPorts
- Maintainer
- [email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
- License
- MIT
- Categories
- wayland, x11-wm
- Package size
- 4996.8 KiB, 5716.3 KiB installed
Description
Sway is a tiling Wayland compositor and a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager for X11. It works with your existing i3 configuration and supports most of i3's features, plus a few extras.
In the other systems
The newest version among them is 1.12, as upstream numbers it.
| System | Port | Version | Vulnerabilities | Status | Maintainer | Last update |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DragonFly | x11-wm/sway | 1.12 newest | none known | - | [email protected] | - |
| FreeBSD | x11-wm/sway | 1.12 newest | none known | - | [email protected] | 2026-07-01 |
| OpenBSD | wayland/sway by name | 1.12 newest | no data | - | The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <[email protected]> | - |
| MidnightBSD | x11-wm/sway | 1.11_1 behind since 2026-11-11 | no data | - | [email protected] | 2026-11-04 |
| HardenedBSD | x11-wm/sway | 1.12 newest | no data | - | [email protected] | - |
| GhostBSD | x11-wm/sway | 1.12 newest | no data | - | [email protected] | - |
Version history 1
- 1.12
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 swayFrom DPorts:
cd /usr/dports/x11-wm/sway && make install cleanDependency 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 19
No port depends on this one.
Configuration
No options to configure.
- Service scripts
- none
Message after installing
Notes: - sway(1) can use mac_priority(4) to avoid stutter during high load