x11-wm/swayfx 0.6 FreeBSD

Sway, but with eye candy!

System: FreeBSD
Repository: FreeBSD ports
Maintainer: [email protected]
Last update: 2026-08-06
Commit: 91dfb276ff
License: MIT
Categories: x11-wm, wayland
Package size: 5157.7 KiB, 5753.3 KiB installed

Description

Sway is an incredible window manager, and certainly one of the most well established wayland window managers. However, it is restricted to only include the functionality that existed in i3. This fork ditches the simple wlr_renderer, and replaces it with our fx_renderer, capable of rendering with fancy GLES2 effects. This, along with a couple of minor changes, expands sway's featureset to include the following:

Blur
Anti-aliased rounded corners, borders, and titlebars
Shadows
Dim unfocused windows
Per application saturation control: Allows the user to set the saturation (Digital Vibrance) for specific applications. Great for some FPS games!
Scratchpad treated as minimize: Allows docks, or panels with a taskbar, to correctly interpret minimize / unminimize requests

In the other systems

The newest version among them is 0.6, as upstream numbers it.

System

Port

Version

Vulnerabilities

Status

Maintainer

Last update

FreeBSD

x11-wm/swayfx

0.6 newest

none known

[email protected]

2026-08-06

DragonFly

x11-wm/swayfx

0.5 behind since 2026-08-06

none known

[email protected]

HardenedBSD

x11-wm/swayfx

0.6 newest

no data

[email protected]

GhostBSD

x11-wm/swayfx

0.6 newest

no data

[email protected]

Version history 1

0.6 2026-08-06 91dfb276ff

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 swayfx

From the ports tree:

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

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

RUN_DEPENDS=	swayfx>0:x11-wm/swayfx

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	0.6	0.6	-	0.5.3	0.6
FreeBSD:14:quarterly	0.6	0.6	n/a	0.5.3	0.6
FreeBSD:15:latest	0.6	0.6	n/a	0.5.3	0.5.3
FreeBSD:15:quarterly	0.6	0.6	n/a	n/a	n/a
FreeBSD:16:latest	0.6	0.6	n/a	n/a	n/a
FreeBSD:16:quarterly	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	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/swayfx"]
  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["converters/fribidi"]
  me --> d7["converters/libiconv"]
  me -.-> dmore(["130 more"])
  classDef this fill:#ab2b28,color:#ffffff,stroke:#ab2b28
  class me this

Dependencies

As this port's Makefile names them.

Build 2

evdev-proto>0 : devel/evdev-proto
wayland-protocols>=1.41 : graphics/wayland-protocols

Library 10

libjson-c.so : devel/json-c
libevdev.so : devel/libevdev
libudev.so : devel/libudev-devd
libpcre2-8.so : devel/pcre2
libdrm.so : graphics/libdrm
libwayland-egl.so : graphics/wayland
libscenefx-0.5.so : x11-toolkits/scenefx05
libwlroots-0.20.so : x11-toolkits/wlroots020
libinput.so : x11/libinput
libxkbcommon.so : x11/libxkbcommon

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

Build dependencies 142

The first 100 are listed.

Run dependencies 138

The first 100 are listed.

No port depends on this one.

Configuration

Options name: x11-wm_sway

Option

Default

Description

BASU

Tray in swaybar via basu

MANPAGES

Build and/or install manual pages

PIXBUF

GDK-PixBuf library support

SWAYBG

Default command to set background

X11

X11 (graphics) support

USES: compiler:c11 gnome meson pkgconfig xorg
Service scripts: none
Conflicts with: sway sway-devel

Message after installing

Notes:
- sway(1) can use mac_priority(4) to avoid stutter during high load

Files

Manual pages 10

sway(1)
sway(5)
sway-bar(5)
sway-input(5)
sway-ipc(7)
sway-output(5)
swaybar-protocol(7)
swaymsg(1)
swaynag(1)
swaynag(5)

pkg-plist 32

bin/sway
bin/swaybar
bin/swaymsg
bin/swaynag
@sample etc/swayfx/config.sample
share/man/man1/sway.1.gz
share/man/man1/swaymsg.1.gz
share/man/man1/swaynag.1.gz
share/man/man5/sway-bar.5.gz
share/man/man5/sway-input.5.gz
share/man/man5/sway-output.5.gz
share/man/man5/sway.5.gz
share/man/man5/swaynag.5.gz
share/man/man7/sway-ipc.7.gz
share/man/man7/swaybar-protocol.7.gz
share/backgrounds/sway/Sway_Wallpaper_Blue_1136x640.png
share/backgrounds/sway/Sway_Wallpaper_Blue_1136x640_Portrait.png
share/backgrounds/sway/Sway_Wallpaper_Blue_1366x768.png
share/backgrounds/sway/Sway_Wallpaper_Blue_1920x1080.png
share/backgrounds/sway/Sway_Wallpaper_Blue_2048x1536.png
share/backgrounds/sway/Sway_Wallpaper_Blue_2048x1536_Portrait.png
share/backgrounds/sway/Sway_Wallpaper_Blue_768x1024.png
share/backgrounds/sway/Sway_Wallpaper_Blue_768x1024_Portrait.png
share/bash-completion/completions/sway
share/bash-completion/completions/swaybar
share/bash-completion/completions/swaymsg
share/fish/vendor_completions.d/sway.fish
share/fish/vendor_completions.d/swaymsg.fish
share/fish/vendor_completions.d/swaynag.fish
share/wayland-sessions/sway.desktop
share/zsh/site-functions/_sway
share/zsh/site-functions/_swaymsg

distinfo 1

File

Size

SHA256

WillPower3309-swayfx-0.6_GH0.tar.gz

1.7611155e+07

854f9d1468b8706718210e026d0bb0ddbc8370f750345fbbdd163f130c1b922d

Commit history 2

Date Commit Credits Log message

2026-08-06

91dfb276ff

Jan Beich

x11-wm/swayfx: update to 0.6

Changes: https://github.com/WillPower3309/swayfx/releases/tag/0.6 Reported by: GitHub (watch releases)

2026-07-01

0d4ebdd15c

Rene Ladan

Mk/bsd.port.mk: mark 14.3 unsupported

all: drop supoprt for FreeBSD 14.3 While here clean up some leftovers from FreeBSD 13 Reviewed by: adamw, jbeich, kirill_varnakov.com, saheed, sunpoet Approved by: portmgr (implicit) Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D57282