BSD Portsx11/herbstluftwm 0.9.6 OpenBSD
manual tiling window manager
- System
- OpenBSD
- Repository
- OpenBSD ports
- Maintainer
- Lucas Gabriel Vuotto <[email protected]>, Florian Viehweger <[email protected]>
- Categories
- x11
Description
herbstluftwm is a manual tiling window manager for X11 using Xlib and Glib. Its main features:
* layout is based on splitting frames into subframes which can be split again or can be filled with windows (similar to i3/musca)
* tags (or workspaces or virtual desktops or ...) can be added/removed at runtime. Each tag contains an own layout
* exactly one tag is viewed on each monitor. The tags are monitor independent (similar to xmonad)
* it is configured at runtime via ipc calls from herbstclient. So the configuration file is just a script which is run on startup. (similar to wmii/musca)
In the other systems
The newest version among them is 0.9.6, as upstream numbers it.
| System | Port | Version | Vulnerabilities | Status | Maintainer | Last update |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenBSD | x11/herbstluftwm | 0.9.6 newest | no data | - | Lucas Gabriel Vuotto <[email protected]>, Florian Viehweger <[email protected]> | - |
| FreeBSD | x11-wm/herbstluftwm by name | 0.9.6 newest | none known | - | [email protected] | - |
| NetBSD | wm/herbstluftwm by name | 0.9.6nb1 newest | none known | - | [email protected] | 2026-09-29 |
| DragonFly | x11-wm/herbstluftwm by name | 0.9.5_2 | none known | - | [email protected] | - |
| HardenedBSD | x11-wm/herbstluftwm by name | 0.9.6 newest | no data | - | [email protected] | - |
| GhostBSD | x11-wm/herbstluftwm by name | 0.9.6 newest | no data | - | [email protected] | - |
Install
Binary package:
pkg_add herbstluftwmFrom the ports tree:
cd /usr/ports/x11/herbstluftwm && make installDependency 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
Build dependencies 2
Run dependencies 4
No port depends on this one.