BSD Portsx11/awww 0.12.1_2 DragonFly
Answer to your Wayland Wallpaper Woes
- System
- DragonFly
- Repository
- DPorts
- Maintainer
- [email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
- License
- GPLv3
- Categories
- x11
- Package size
- 2081.0 KiB, 8613.8 KiB installed
Description
Efficient animated wallpaper daemon for wayland, controlled at runtime.
Features
- Display animated gifs on your desktop
- Display any image in the formats:
- jpeg
- png
- gif
- pnm
- tga
- tiff
- webp
- bmp
- farbfeld
- Clear the screen with an arbitrary rrggbb color
- Smooth transition effect when you switch images
- Do all of that without having to shutdown and reinitialize the daemon
In the other systems
The newest version among them is 0.12.1pl20260714, as upstream numbers it.
| System | Port | Version | Vulnerabilities | Status | Maintainer | Last update |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DragonFly | x11/awww | 0.12.1_2 behind since 2026-08-04 | none known | - | [email protected] | - |
| FreeBSD | x11/awww | 0.12.1_3 behind since 2026-08-04 | none known | - | [email protected] | 2026-10-14 |
| OpenBSD | wayland/awww by name | 0.12.1pl20260714 newest | no data | - | The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <[email protected]> | 2026-08-04 |
| HardenedBSD | x11/awww | 0.12.1_3 behind since 2026-08-04 | no data | - | [email protected] | - |
| GhostBSD | x11/awww | 0.12.1_3 behind since 2026-08-04 | no data | - | [email protected] | - |
Version history 1
- 0.12.1
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 awwwFrom DPorts:
cd /usr/dports/x11/awww && 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 2
No port depends on this one.
Configuration
No options to configure.
- Service scripts
- none
Message after installing
Starting from version 0.10 the command swww init, previously deprecated, has been properly deleted. The correct way of initializing the daemon is calling swww-daemon directly.