BSD Ports

x11/way-displays 1.13.0 DragonFly

Auto Manage Your Wayland Displays

System
DragonFly
Repository
DPorts
Maintainer
[email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License
MIT
Categories
wayland, x11
Package size
426.2 KiB, 2082.2 KiB installed

Description

way-displays: Auto Manage Your Wayland Displays

  1. Sets preferred mode or highest at maximum refresh
  2. Arranges in a row or a column
  3. Auto scales based on DPI: 96 is a scale of 1
  4. Reacts when displays are plugged/unplugged
  5. Reacts when laptop lid is closed/opened

Works out of the box: no configuration required.

Command line client to inspect, modify and persist changes to the active configuration.

Wayland successor to xlayoutdisplay, inspired by kanshi.

In the other systems

The newest version among them is 2.0.0, as upstream numbers it.

SystemPortVersionVulnerabilitiesStatusMaintainerLast update
DragonFlyx11/way-displays1.13.0 behind since 2026-08-20none known-[email protected]-
FreeBSDx11/way-displays2.0.0 newestnone known-[email protected]2026-08-20
HardenedBSDx11/way-displays2.0.0 newestno data-[email protected]-
GhostBSDx11/way-displays2.0.0 newestno data-[email protected]-

Install

Binary package:

pkg install way-displays

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/x11/way-displays && 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 6

No port depends on this one.