wayland/sway 1.12 OpenBSD

i3-compatible Wayland compositor

System: OpenBSD
Repository: OpenBSD ports
Maintainer: The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <[email protected]>
Categories: wayland

Description

sway is an i3-compatible Wayland compositor.

In the other systems

The newest version among them is 1.12, as upstream numbers it.

System

Port

Version

Vulnerabilities

Status

Maintainer

Last update

OpenBSD

wayland/sway

1.12 newest

no data

The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <[email protected]>

FreeBSD

x11-wm/sway by name

1.12 newest

none known

[email protected]

2026-07-01

MidnightBSD

x11-wm/sway by name

1.11_1

no data

[email protected]

HardenedBSD

x11-wm/sway by name

1.12 newest

no data

[email protected]

GhostBSD

x11-wm/sway by name

1.12 newest

no data

[email protected]

Compare across BSDs

Install

Binary package:

pkg_add sway

From the ports tree:

cd /usr/ports/wayland/sway && make install

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["wayland/sway"]
  me --> d0["devel/json-c"]
  me --> d1["devel/pango"]
  me --> d2["devel/pcre2"]
  me --> d3["graphics/gdk-pixbuf2"]
  me --> d4["wayland/libevdev-openbsd"]
  me --> d5["wayland/libinput-openbsd"]
  me --> d6["wayland/swaybg"]
  me --> d7["wayland/wayland"]
  me -.-> dmore(["3 more"])
  classDef this fill:#ab2b28,color:#ffffff,stroke:#ab2b28
  class me this

Dependencies

Build dependencies 4

Run dependencies 11

No port depends on this one.