BSD Ports

x11-wm/swayfx 0.5 DragonFly

Sway, but with eye candy!

System
DragonFly
Repository
DPorts
Maintainer
[email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License
MIT
Categories
wayland, x11-wm
Package size
5003.6 KiB, 5739.2 KiB installed

Description

Sway is an incredible window manager, and certainly one of the most well established wayland window managers. However, it is restricted to only include the functionality that existed in i3. This fork ditches the simple wlr_renderer, and replaces it with our fx_renderer, capable of rendering with fancy GLES2 effects. This, along with a couple of minor changes, expands sway's featureset to include the following:

  • Blur
  • Anti-aliased rounded corners, borders, and titlebars
  • Shadows
  • Dim unfocused windows
  • Per application saturation control: Allows the user to set the saturation (Digital Vibrance) for specific applications. Great for some FPS games!
  • Scratchpad treated as minimize: Allows docks, or panels with a taskbar, to correctly interpret minimize / unminimize requests

In the other systems

The newest version among them is 0.6, as upstream numbers it.

SystemPortVersionVulnerabilitiesStatusMaintainerLast update
DragonFlyx11-wm/swayfx0.5 behind since 2026-08-06none known-[email protected]-
FreeBSDx11-wm/swayfx0.6 newestnone known-[email protected]2026-08-06
HardenedBSDx11-wm/swayfx0.6 newestno data-[email protected]-
GhostBSDx11-wm/swayfx0.6 newestno data-[email protected]-

Install

Binary package:

pkg install swayfx

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/x11-wm/swayfx && 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 21

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