x11/gershwin 20260129 MidnightBSD

GNUstep Gershwin desktop environment meta port

System: MidnightBSD
Repository: mports
Maintainer: [email protected]
Port added: 2026-10-19
Last update: 2026-10-19
Commit: 85b9d30c9e
License: bsd2
Categories: x11, gnustep

Description

This is the metaport for the Gershwin Desktop Environment. It is a modern and user friendly desktop environment based on GNUstep.

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

20260129 newest

no data

[email protected]

2026-10-19

GhostBSD

x11/gershwin

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

From mports:

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

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

RUN_DEPENDS=	gershwin>0:x11/gershwin

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"]
  me --> d0["deskutils/gershwin-components"]
  me --> d1["deskutils/gershwin-systempreferences"]
  me --> d2["deskutils/gershwin-textedit"]
  me --> d3["deskutils/gershwin-workspace"]
  me --> d4["devel/gershwin-libdispatch"]
  me --> d5["devel/gershwin-tools-make"]
  me --> d6["lang/gershwin-libobjc2"]
  me --> d7["lang/gershwin-libs-base"]
  me -.-> dmore(["7 more"])
  classDef this fill:#ab2b28,color:#ffffff,stroke:#ab2b28
  class me this

Dependencies

As this port's Makefile names them.

Runtime 15

gershwin-libdispatch>0 : devel/gershwin-libdispatch
gershwin-tools-make>0 : devel/gershwin-tools-make
gershwin-libobjc2>0 : lang/gershwin-libobjc2
gershwin-libs-base>0 : lang/gershwin-libs-base
gershwin-libs-gui>0 : x11-toolkits/gershwin-libs-gui
gershwin-libs-back>0 : x11-toolkits/gershwin-libs-back
gershwin-system>0 : misc/gershwin-system
gershwin-assets>0 : misc/gershwin-assets
gershwin-terminal>0 : x11/gershwin-terminal
gershwin-windowmanager>0 : x11/gershwin-windowmanager
gershwin-eau-theme>0 : x11-themes/gershwin-eau-theme
gershwin-systempreferences>0 : deskutils/gershwin-systempreferences
gershwin-workspace>0 : deskutils/gershwin-workspace
gershwin-textedit>0 : deskutils/gershwin-textedit
gershwin-components>0 : deskutils/gershwin-components

Run dependencies 15

No port depends on this one.

Configuration

No options to configure.

USES: metaport
Service scripts: none

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`, …