x11-wm/fvwm2 2.7.0 MidnightBSD

Popular virtual window manager for X

System: MidnightBSD
Repository: mports
Maintainer: [email protected]
Last update: 2026-09-10
Commit: c0dcd2549e
License: gpl2, mit
Categories: x11-wm

Description

Fvwm is a very famous window manager for X, which provides a virtual/multiple disjoint desktop, a 3-D look for windows decorations, shaped/color icons. It gives a very good emulation of mwm. A nice button-bar can be used to provide convenient access to frequently used functions or programs.

In the other systems

The newest version among them is 2.7.0, as upstream numbers it.

System

Port

Version

Vulnerabilities

Status

Maintainer

Last update

MidnightBSD

x11-wm/fvwm2

2.7.0 newest

no data

[email protected]

2026-09-10

FreeBSD

x11-wm/fvwm2

2.7.0 newest

none known

[email protected]

2026-08-24

NetBSD

wm/fvwm by name

2.7.0nb21 newest

none known

[email protected]

2026-09-29

DragonFly

x11-wm/fvwm2

2.6.9_4 behind since 2026-08-24

none known

[email protected]

HardenedBSD

x11-wm/fvwm2

2.7.0 newest

no data

[email protected]

GhostBSD

x11-wm/fvwm2

2.7.0 newest

no data

[email protected]

Compare across BSDs

Version history 1

2.7.0 2026-09-10 c0dcd2549e

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:

mport install fvwm

From mports:

cd /usr/mports/x11-wm/fvwm2 && make install clean

To depend on this port in another port's Makefile:

RUN_DEPENDS=	fvwm>0:x11-wm/fvwm2

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.

graph LR
  me["x11-wm/fvwm2"]
  me --> d0["devel/m4"]
  me --> d1["print/freetype2"]
  me --> d2["textproc/p5-XML-Parser"]
  me --> d3["x11-fonts/fontconfig"]
  classDef this fill:#ab2b28,color:#ffffff,stroke:#ab2b28
  class me this

Dependencies

As this port's Makefile names them.

Library 2

libfontconfig.so : x11-fonts/fontconfig
libfreetype.so : print/freetype2

Runtime 2

gm4 : devel/m4
p5-XML-Parser>=0 : textproc/p5-XML-Parser

Build dependencies 2

Run dependencies 4

No port depends on this one.

Configuration

Options name: x11-wm_fvwm

Option

Default

Description

BIDI

off

Asian bi-directional text support

ICONS

ICONV

NLS

off

PNG

SESSION_MGMT

Session Management support

STROKE

off

support for mouse gestures

SVG

off

USES: cpe gmake gnome perl5 pkgconfig python gettext readline xorg
Service scripts: none
Conflicts with: fvwm3

Files

Manual pages 31

FvwmAnimate(1)
FvwmAuto(1)
FvwmBacker(1)
FvwmBanner(1)
FvwmButtons(1)
FvwmCommand(1)
FvwmConsole(1)
FvwmConsoleC.pl(1)
FvwmCpp(1)
FvwmEvent(1)
FvwmForm(1)
FvwmIconMan(1)
FvwmIdent(1)
FvwmM4(1)
FvwmPager(1)
FvwmPerl(1)
FvwmProxy(1)
FvwmRearrange(1)
FvwmScript(1)
fvwm(1)
fvwm-bug(1)
fvwm-config(1)
fvwm-convert-2.6(1)
fvwm-menu-desktop(1)
fvwm-menu-directory(1)
fvwm-menu-headlines(1)
fvwm-menu-xlock(1)
fvwm-perllib(1)
fvwm-root(1)
fvwm2(1)
xpmroot(1)

pkg-plist 475

bin/FvwmCommand
bin/fvwm
bin/fvwm-bug
bin/fvwm-config
bin/fvwm-convert-2.6
bin/fvwm-menu-desktop
bin/fvwm-menu-directory
bin/fvwm-menu-headlines
bin/fvwm-menu-xlock
bin/fvwm-perllib
bin/fvwm-root
bin/fvwm2
bin/xpmroot
@sample etc/system.fvwm2rc.dist etc/system.fvwm2rc
libexec/fvwm/%%FVWM_VERSION%%/FvwmAnimate
libexec/fvwm/%%FVWM_VERSION%%/FvwmAudio
libexec/fvwm/%%FVWM_VERSION%%/FvwmAuto
libexec/fvwm/%%FVWM_VERSION%%/FvwmBacker
libexec/fvwm/%%FVWM_VERSION%%/FvwmBanner
libexec/fvwm/%%FVWM_VERSION%%/FvwmButtons
libexec/fvwm/%%FVWM_VERSION%%/FvwmCascade
libexec/fvwm/%%FVWM_VERSION%%/FvwmCommandS
libexec/fvwm/%%FVWM_VERSION%%/FvwmConsole
libexec/fvwm/%%FVWM_VERSION%%/FvwmConsoleC
libexec/fvwm/%%FVWM_VERSION%%/FvwmConsoleC.pl
libexec/fvwm/%%FVWM_VERSION%%/FvwmCpp
libexec/fvwm/%%FVWM_VERSION%%/FvwmEvent
libexec/fvwm/%%FVWM_VERSION%%/FvwmForm
libexec/fvwm/%%FVWM_VERSION%%/FvwmIconMan
libexec/fvwm/%%FVWM_VERSION%%/FvwmIdent
libexec/fvwm/%%FVWM_VERSION%%/FvwmM4
libexec/fvwm/%%FVWM_VERSION%%/FvwmPager
libexec/fvwm/%%FVWM_VERSION%%/FvwmPerl
libexec/fvwm/%%FVWM_VERSION%%/FvwmProxy
libexec/fvwm/%%FVWM_VERSION%%/FvwmRearrange
libexec/fvwm/%%FVWM_VERSION%%/FvwmScript
libexec/fvwm/%%FVWM_VERSION%%/FvwmTalk
libexec/fvwm/%%FVWM_VERSION%%/FvwmTile
share/man/man1/FvwmAnimate.1.gz
share/man/man1/FvwmAuto.1.gz
share/man/man1/FvwmBacker.1.gz
share/man/man1/FvwmBanner.1.gz
share/man/man1/FvwmButtons.1.gz
share/man/man1/FvwmCommand.1.gz
share/man/man1/FvwmConsole.1.gz
share/man/man1/FvwmConsoleC.pl.1.gz
share/man/man1/FvwmCpp.1.gz
share/man/man1/FvwmEvent.1.gz
share/man/man1/FvwmForm.1.gz
share/man/man1/FvwmIconMan.1.gz
share/man/man1/FvwmIdent.1.gz
share/man/man1/FvwmM4.1.gz
share/man/man1/FvwmPager.1.gz
share/man/man1/FvwmPerl.1.gz
share/man/man1/FvwmProxy.1.gz
share/man/man1/FvwmRearrange.1.gz
share/man/man1/FvwmScript.1.gz
share/man/man1/fvwm.1.gz
share/man/man1/fvwm-bug.1.gz
share/man/man1/fvwm-config.1.gz
share/man/man1/fvwm-convert-2.6.1.gz
share/man/man1/fvwm-menu-desktop.1.gz
share/man/man1/fvwm-menu-directory.1.gz
share/man/man1/fvwm-menu-headlines.1.gz
share/man/man1/fvwm-menu-xlock.1.gz
share/man/man1/fvwm-perllib.1.gz
share/man/man1/fvwm-root.1.gz
share/man/man1/fvwm2.1.gz
share/man/man1/xpmroot.1.gz
share/fvwm/pixmaps/Jlock.xpm
share/fvwm/pixmaps/Jnews.xpm
share/fvwm/pixmaps/Jrecycle.xpm
share/fvwm/pixmaps/Jxlock.xpm
share/fvwm/pixmaps/Monitor.xpm
share/fvwm/pixmaps/Mosaic.xpm
share/fvwm/pixmaps/Xfm.xpm
share/fvwm/pixmaps/arrdown2.xpm
share/fvwm/pixmaps/arrows2.xpm
share/fvwm/pixmaps/arrup2.xpm
share/fvwm/pixmaps/banner.fvwm_blue_cursive.xpm
share/fvwm/pixmaps/banner.fvwm_bracket.xpm
share/fvwm/pixmaps/banner.fvwm_cat_thing.xpm
share/fvwm/pixmaps/banner.fvwm_red_3D.xpm
share/fvwm/pixmaps/banner.fvwm_red_cursive.xpm
share/fvwm/pixmaps/banner.fvwm_tiger.xpm
share/fvwm/pixmaps/banner.fvwm_tiger_tail.xpm
share/fvwm/pixmaps/bckgnd1.xpm
share/fvwm/pixmaps/bckgnd3.xpm
share/fvwm/pixmaps/bell.xpm
share/fvwm/pixmaps/bomb.xpm
share/fvwm/pixmaps/button-close.xpm
share/fvwm/pixmaps/button-horiz.xpm
share/fvwm/pixmaps/button-max.xpm
share/fvwm/pixmaps/button-vert.xpm
share/fvwm/pixmaps/button.xpm
share/fvwm/pixmaps/clamp.xpm
share/fvwm/pixmaps/date.xpm
share/fvwm/pixmaps/datebook.xpm
share/fvwm/pixmaps/default.xpm
share/fvwm/pixmaps/desk.xpm

The first 100 are listed.

distinfo 2

File

Size

SHA256

fvwm-2.7.0.tar.gz

3.933529e+06

66826dd60b774447170037d9078fd43e75f7230a49acfb84a988eebce7e3418b

fvwm_icons-20070101.tar.bz2

330862

86b0164430a3087f5cb8d55eb43a8676bbce495814b30c6844eb127f952642ab

Master sites 4

https://github.com/fvwmorg/fvwm/releases/download/2.7.0/
http://fvwm.sourceforge.net/generated/icon_download/
http://cschubert.com/distfiles/
FREEBSD_LOCAL/cy

Commit history 2

Date Commit Credits Log message

2026-09-10

c0dcd2549e

Lucas Holt

x11-wm/fvwm2: update to 2.7.0 (#1135)

Updates FVWM to 2.7.0 and removes the release-specific PORTREVISION. The new upstream default-config install logic supersedes the old local symlink patch. Updates the plist for removed command helpers and the staged locale directory. MidnightBSD fake-install paths are retained; no UCL scripts were imported. Validation passed: bmake makesum, patch, build, fake, package, test, check-license, portlint -C, and git diff --check. ## Summary by Sourcery Update the FVWM port to version 2.7.0 and align its packaging metadata with the new upstream release. Enhancements: - Update FVWM to the 2.7.0 release and remove the release-specific port revision. - Adopt upstream default-configuration installation behavior and refresh the package file list for removed helpers and locale staging. …

2026-08-06

77482ed6c0

Lucas Holt

x11/*: fix CPE identifiers that matched nothing

These ports declared USES=cpe but left CPE_PRODUCT unset, so it defaulted to PORTNAME and carried the port's version suffix or linux-c7-/linux-rl9- prefix into the product name. The resulting identifiers matched nothing in NVD, so mport audit stayed silent for them just as if no CPE had been set at all. Corrected, with the coverage this restores at the versions currently in the tree: x11/linux-c7-pixman pixman:pixman 4 CVEs x11/linux-rl9-pixman pixman:pixman x11-toolkits/linux-c7-qt-x11 qt:qt 37 CVEs x11/linux-c7-libxkbcommon xkbcommon:libxkbcommon 1 CVE (CVE-2018-15853) x11/linux-rl9-libxkbcommon xkbcommon:libxkbcommon x11-fonts/linux-c7-fontconfig fontconfig_project:fontconfig 1 CVE …