x11-wm/gamescope 3.13.8_11 FreeBSD

SteamOS session compositing window manager

System: FreeBSD
Repository: FreeBSD ports
Maintainer: [email protected]
Last update: 2026-07-24
Commit: 4ba825a2f2
License: BSD2CLAUSE
Categories: x11-wm, wayland
Package size: 605.7 KiB, 1904.4 KiB installed

Description

In an embedded session usecase, gamescope does the same thing as steamcompmgr, but with less extra copies and latency:

It's getting game frames through Wayland by way of Xwayland, so there's no copy within X itself before it gets the frame.
It can use DRM/KMS to directly flip game frames to the screen, even when stretching or when notifications are up, removing another copy.
When it does need to composite with the GPU, it does so with async Vulkan compute, meaning you get to see your frame quick even if the game already has the GPU busy with the next frame.

It also runs on top of a regular desktop, the 'nested' usecase steamcompmgr didn't support.

Because the game is running in its own personal Xwayland sandbox desktop, it can't interfere with your desktop and your desktop can't interfere with it.
You can spoof a virtual screen with a desired resolution and refresh rate as the only thing the game sees, and control/resize the output as needed. This can be useful in exotic display configurations like ultrawide or multi-monitor setups that involve rotation.

In the other systems

The newest version among them is 3.13.8, as upstream numbers it.

System

Port

Version

Vulnerabilities

Status

Maintainer

Last update

FreeBSD

x11-wm/gamescope

3.13.8_11 newest

none known

[email protected]

2026-07-24

HardenedBSD

x11-wm/gamescope

3.13.8_11 newest

no data

[email protected]

GhostBSD

x11-wm/gamescope

3.13.8_11 newest

no data

[email protected]

Install

Binary package:

pkg install gamescope

From the ports tree:

cd /usr/ports/x11-wm/gamescope/ && make install clean

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

RUN_DEPENDS=	gamescope>0:x11-wm/gamescope

Packages

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

Repository

aarch64

amd64

armv6

armv7

i386

FreeBSD:14:latest

3.13.8_11

3.13.8_9

3.13.8_11

FreeBSD:14:quarterly

3.13.8_11

n/a

3.13.8_8

3.13.8_11

FreeBSD:15:latest

3.13.8_11

n/a

3.13.8_9

FreeBSD:15:quarterly

3.13.8_11

n/a

FreeBSD:16:latest

3.13.8_11

n/a

FreeBSD:16:quarterly

n/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.

graph LR
  me["x11-wm/gamescope"]
  me --> d0["accessibility/at-spi2-core"]
  me --> d1["archivers/brotli"]
  me --> d2["archivers/libdeflate"]
  me --> d3["archivers/liblz4"]
  me --> d4["archivers/lzo2"]
  me --> d5["archivers/zstd"]
  me --> d6["audio/ebur128"]
  me --> d7["audio/flac"]
  me -.-> dmore(["154 more"])
  classDef this fill:#ab2b28,color:#ffffff,stroke:#ab2b28
  class me this

Dependencies

As this port's Makefile names them.

Build 6

evdev-proto>0 : devel/evdev-proto
glslangValidator : graphics/glslang
vulkan-headers>0 : graphics/vulkan-headers
wayland-protocols>=1.17 : graphics/wayland-protocols
glm>0 : math/glm
hwdata>0 : misc/hwdata

Library 7

libdrm.so : graphics/libdrm
libliftoff.so : graphics/libliftoff
libvulkan.so : graphics/vulkan-loader
libwayland-server.so : graphics/wayland
libdisplay-info.so : sysutils/libdisplay-info
libwlroots-0.17.so : x11-toolkits/wlroots017
libxkbcommon.so : x11/libxkbcommon

Runtime 1

hwdata>0 : misc/hwdata

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

Build dependencies 176

The first 100 are listed.

Run dependencies 162

The first 100 are listed.

No port depends on this one.

Configuration

Options name: x11-wm_gamescope

Option

Default

Description

PIPEWIRE

Screen capture via PipeWire

USES: cmake:indirect compiler:c++11-lib meson pkgconfig sdl xorg
Service scripts: none

Message after installing

===>   NOTICE:

The gamescope port currently does not have a maintainer. As a result, it is
more likely to have unresolved issues, not be up-to-date, or even be removed in
the future. To volunteer to maintain this port, please create an issue at:

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla

More information about port maintainership is available at:

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/contributing/#ports-contributing

Files

distinfo 10

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SHA256

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Commit history 1

Date Commit Credits Log message

2026-07-24

4ba825a2f2

Jan Beich

sysutils/libdisplay-info: update to 0.4.0

Changes: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/emersion/libdisplay-info/-/releases/0.4.0 Reported by: GitLab (notify releases)