x11/gershwin-windowmanager 20260129 MidnightBSD

Gershwin window manager combining WindowManager and XCBKit

System: MidnightBSD
Repository: mports
Maintainer: [email protected]
Port added: 2026-10-19
Last update: 2026-10-19
Commit: 85b9d30c9e
License: mit
Categories: x11, gnustep

Description

Gershwin Window Manager is the window manager component of the Gershwin desktop environment. It combines the WindowManager (from gershwin-uroswm) and XCBKit components into a unified window management solution.

The window manager provides traditional window management features with GNUstep/Objective-C integration for the Gershwin desktop.

In the other systems

The newest version among them is 20260129, as upstream numbers it.

System

Port

Version

Vulnerabilities

Status

Maintainer

Last update

MidnightBSD

x11/gershwin-windowmanager

20260129 newest

no data

[email protected]

2026-10-19

GhostBSD

x11/gershwin-windowmanager

20260129 newest

none known

[email protected]

Version history 1

20260129 2026-10-19 85b9d30c9e

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 gershwin-windowmanager

From mports:

cd /usr/mports/x11/gershwin-windowmanager && make install clean

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

RUN_DEPENDS=	gershwin-windowmanager>0:x11/gershwin-windowmanager

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/gershwin-windowmanager"]
  u0["x11/gershwin"] --> me
  me --> d0["graphics/cairo"]
  me --> d1["x11/xcb-util"]
  me --> d2["x11/xcb-util-cursor"]
  me --> d3["x11/xcb-util-wm"]
  classDef this fill:#ab2b28,color:#ffffff,stroke:#ab2b28
  class me this

Dependencies

As this port's Makefile names them.

Library 4

libcairo.so : graphics/cairo
libxcb-cursor.so : x11/xcb-util-cursor
libxcb-icccm.so : x11/xcb-util-wm
libxcb-util.so : x11/xcb-util

Build dependencies 4

Run dependencies 4

Required by 1

x11/gershwin

Configuration

No options to configure.

USES: gershwin pkgconfig xorg
Service scripts: none

Files

pkg-plist 81

/System/Library/CoreServices/Applications/WindowManager.app/Resources/Info-gnustep.plist
/System/Library/CoreServices/Applications/WindowManager.app/Resources/WindowManager.desktop
/System/Library/CoreServices/Applications/WindowManager.app/Resources/WindowManager.png
/System/Library/CoreServices/Applications/WindowManager.app/WindowManager
/System/Library/CoreServices/Applications/WindowManager.app/stamp.make
/System/Library/Frameworks/XCBKit.framework/Headers
/System/Library/Frameworks/XCBKit.framework/Resources
/System/Library/Frameworks/XCBKit.framework/Versions/0/Headers/XCBAttributesReply.h
/System/Library/Frameworks/XCBKit.framework/Versions/0/Headers/XCBConnection.h
/System/Library/Frameworks/XCBKit.framework/Versions/0/Headers/XCBCursor.h
/System/Library/Frameworks/XCBKit.framework/Versions/0/Headers/XCBFrame.h
/System/Library/Frameworks/XCBKit.framework/Versions/0/Headers/XCBGeometryReply.h
/System/Library/Frameworks/XCBKit.framework/Versions/0/Headers/XCBKit.h
/System/Library/Frameworks/XCBKit.framework/Versions/0/Headers/XCBQueryTreeReply.h
/System/Library/Frameworks/XCBKit.framework/Versions/0/Headers/XCBRegion.h
/System/Library/Frameworks/XCBKit.framework/Versions/0/Headers/XCBReply.h
/System/Library/Frameworks/XCBKit.framework/Versions/0/Headers/XCBScreen.h
/System/Library/Frameworks/XCBKit.framework/Versions/0/Headers/XCBSelection.h
/System/Library/Frameworks/XCBKit.framework/Versions/0/Headers/XCBShape.h
/System/Library/Frameworks/XCBKit.framework/Versions/0/Headers/XCBTitleBar.h
/System/Library/Frameworks/XCBKit.framework/Versions/0/Headers/XCBVisual.h
/System/Library/Frameworks/XCBKit.framework/Versions/0/Headers/XCBWindow.h
/System/Library/Frameworks/XCBKit.framework/Versions/0/Headers/enums/EEwmh.h
/System/Library/Frameworks/XCBKit.framework/Versions/0/Headers/enums/EIcccm.h
/System/Library/Frameworks/XCBKit.framework/Versions/0/Headers/enums/EMousePosition.h
/System/Library/Frameworks/XCBKit.framework/Versions/0/Headers/enums/ERequests.h
/System/Library/Frameworks/XCBKit.framework/Versions/0/Headers/enums/EResizeDirection.h
/System/Library/Frameworks/XCBKit.framework/Versions/0/Headers/enums/ETitleBarColor.h
/System/Library/Frameworks/XCBKit.framework/Versions/0/Headers/enums/EXErrorMessages.h
/System/Library/Frameworks/XCBKit.framework/Versions/0/Headers/functions/Comparators.h
/System/Library/Frameworks/XCBKit.framework/Versions/0/Headers/functions/Transformers.h
/System/Library/Frameworks/XCBKit.framework/Versions/0/Headers/protocols/client/Client.h
/System/Library/Frameworks/XCBKit.framework/Versions/0/Headers/protocols/server/Server.h
/System/Library/Frameworks/XCBKit.framework/Versions/0/Headers/services/EWMHService.h
/System/Library/Frameworks/XCBKit.framework/Versions/0/Headers/services/ICCCMService.h
/System/Library/Frameworks/XCBKit.framework/Versions/0/Headers/services/TitleBarSettingsService.h
/System/Library/Frameworks/XCBKit.framework/Versions/0/Headers/services/XCBAtomService.h
/System/Library/Frameworks/XCBKit.framework/Versions/0/Headers/utils/CairoDrawer.h
/System/Library/Frameworks/XCBKit.framework/Versions/0/Headers/utils/CairoSurfacesSet.h
/System/Library/Frameworks/XCBKit.framework/Versions/0/Headers/utils/XCBCreateWindowTypeRequest.h
/System/Library/Frameworks/XCBKit.framework/Versions/0/Headers/utils/XCBEvent.h
/System/Library/Frameworks/XCBKit.framework/Versions/0/Headers/utils/XCBShape.h
/System/Library/Frameworks/XCBKit.framework/Versions/0/Headers/utils/XCBWindowTypeResponse.h
/System/Library/Frameworks/XCBKit.framework/Versions/0/Resources/Info-gnustep.plist
/System/Library/Frameworks/XCBKit.framework/Versions/0/Resources/close.png
/System/Library/Frameworks/XCBKit.framework/Versions/0/Resources/max.png
/System/Library/Frameworks/XCBKit.framework/Versions/0/Resources/min.png
/System/Library/Frameworks/XCBKit.framework/Versions/0/XCBKit
/System/Library/Frameworks/XCBKit.framework/Versions/0/libXCBKit.so
/System/Library/Frameworks/XCBKit.framework/Versions/0/libXCBKit.so.0
/System/Library/Frameworks/XCBKit.framework/Versions/0/libXCBKit.so.0.0.18
/System/Library/Frameworks/XCBKit.framework/Versions/Current
/System/Library/Frameworks/XCBKit.framework/XCBKit
/System/Library/Frameworks/XCBKit.framework/libXCBKit.so
/System/Library/Headers/XCBKit
/System/Library/Libraries/libXCBKit.so
/System/Library/Libraries/libXCBKit.so.0
/System/Library/Libraries/libXCBKit.so.0.0.18
/System/Library/Tools/WindowManager
@dir /System/Library/CoreServices/Applications/WindowManager.app/Resources
@dir /System/Library/CoreServices/Applications/WindowManager.app
@dir /System/Library/CoreServices/Applications
@dir /System/Library/CoreServices
@dir /System/Library/Frameworks/XCBKit.framework/Versions/0/Headers/enums
@dir /System/Library/Frameworks/XCBKit.framework/Versions/0/Headers/functions
@dir /System/Library/Frameworks/XCBKit.framework/Versions/0/Headers/protocols/client
@dir /System/Library/Frameworks/XCBKit.framework/Versions/0/Headers/protocols/server
@dir /System/Library/Frameworks/XCBKit.framework/Versions/0/Headers/protocols
@dir /System/Library/Frameworks/XCBKit.framework/Versions/0/Headers/services
@dir /System/Library/Frameworks/XCBKit.framework/Versions/0/Headers/utils
@dir /System/Library/Frameworks/XCBKit.framework/Versions/0/Headers
@dir /System/Library/Frameworks/XCBKit.framework/Versions/0/Resources
@dir /System/Library/Frameworks/XCBKit.framework/Versions/0
@dir /System/Library/Frameworks/XCBKit.framework/Versions
@dir /System/Library/Frameworks/XCBKit.framework
@dir /System/Library/Frameworks
@dir /System/Library/Headers
@dir /System/Library/Libraries
@dir /System/Library/Tools
@dir /System/Library
@dir /System

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Commit history 1

Date Commit Credits Log message

2026-10-19

85b9d30c9e

Lucas Holt

x11/gershwin: add the Gershwin desktop (16 ports + USES=gershwin) (#1818)

## Summary Adds the [Gershwin](https://github.com/gershwin-desktop) GNUstep-based desktop, ported from GhostBSD's `ghostbsd-ports` (same upstream commits) and adapted for MidnightBSD. - `Mk/extensions/gershwin.mk` (`USES=gershwin`, `USE_GERSHWIN=base gui back build`), documented in bsd.mport.mk(5). - Core stack, installed in the GNUstep System domain under **/System** (as upstream and GhostBSD do): `devel/gershwin-libdispatch`, `lang/gershwin-libobjc2`, `devel/gershwin-tools-make`, `lang/gershwin-libs-base`, `x11-toolkits/gershwin-libs-gui`, `x11-toolkits/gershwin-libs-back`. - Desktop: `misc/gershwin-system`, `misc/gershwin-assets`, `x11-themes/gershwin-eau-theme`, `x11/gershwin-terminal`, `x11/gershwin-windowmanager`, `deskutils/gershwin-systempreferences`, …