BSD Ports

x11-fonts/showfont 1.0.7 FreeBSD

Font dumper for the X font server

System
FreeBSD
Repository
FreeBSD ports
Maintainer
[email protected]
Last update
Commit
6cd3e0d855
License
MIT
Categories
x11-fonts
Package size
9.0 KiB, 16.5 KiB installed

Description

Showfont displays data about a font from an X font server. The information shown includes font information, font properties, character metrics, and character bitmaps.

In the other systems

The newest version among them is 1.0.7, as upstream numbers it.

SystemPortVersionVulnerabilitiesStatusMaintainerLast update
FreeBSDx11-fonts/showfont1.0.7 newestnone known-[email protected]2026-09-08
NetBSDwip/showfont by name1.0.7 newestnone known-[email protected]-
DragonFlyx11-fonts/showfont1.0.5_1 behind since 2026-08-08none known-[email protected]-
MidnightBSDx11-fonts/showfont1.0.5_2 behind since 2026-08-08no data-[email protected]-
HardenedBSDx11-fonts/showfont1.0.7 newestno data-[email protected]-
GhostBSDx11-fonts/showfont1.0.7 newestno data-[email protected]-

Compare across BSDs

Version history 1

  1. 1.0.7 35add8b926

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:

pkg install showfont

From the ports tree:

cd /usr/ports/x11-fonts/showfont/ && make install clean

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

RUN_DEPENDS=	showfont>0:x11-fonts/showfont

Packages

The version each package repository carries. “-” means the repository builds no package of it, “n/a” that there is no such repository.

Repositoryaarch64amd64armv6armv7i386
FreeBSD:14:latest1.0.71.0.71.0.51.0.5_11.0.7
FreeBSD:14:quarterly1.0.71.0.7n/a1.0.5_11.0.7
FreeBSD:15:latest1.0.71.0.7n/a1.0.5_11.0.5_1
FreeBSD:15:quarterly1.0.71.0.7n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:16:latest1.0.71.0.7n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:16:quarterlyn/an/an/an/an/a

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.

Dependencies

The Makefile names none itself; they come from USES and USE_*.

The full lists below include those, and their dependencies in turn.

Build dependencies 4
Run dependencies 1

No port depends on this one.

Configuration

No options to configure.

USES
xorg xorg-cat:app
Service scripts
none

Files

distinfo 1
FileSizeSHA256
xorg/app/showfont-1.0.7.tar.xz1254608f725d641c12ef07746d16c892240823eccd045444a1ea182eddf229cc178fe7

Commit history 2

DateCommitCreditsLog message
6cd3e0d855 Gleb Popov xorg-cat.mk users: Drop tar:xz, which is default now
PR: 298092
35add8b926 Kousuke Kannagi x11-fonts/showfont: Update to 1.0.7
Update WWW and pkg-descr. Add LICENSE. https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2022-August/003207.html https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2025-May/003602.html PR: 287714 Approved by: x11 (arrowd) Approved by: fluffy (mentor)