BSD Ports

x11-wm/theseus-ship 6.2.0_4 FreeBSD

Wayland and X11 compositor for KDE Plasma Desktop

System
FreeBSD
Repository
FreeBSD ports
Maintainer
[email protected]
Last update
Commit
127fef6565
License
GPLv2+
Categories
x11-wm, wayland
Package size
1632.3 KiB, 7498.0 KiB installed

Description

Theseus' Ship is a robust, fast and versatile, yet easy to use composited window manager for the Wayland and X11 windowing systems on Linux.

Theseus' Ship is intended to be used as part of a KDE Plasma Desktop. Theseus' Ship is a reboot of KDE's KWin. It differentates itself from KWin in that it uses The Compositor Modules.

In the other systems

The newest version among them is 6.2.0, as upstream numbers it.

SystemPortVersionVulnerabilitiesStatusMaintainerLast update
FreeBSDx11-wm/theseus-ship6.2.0_4 newestnone known-[email protected]2026-08-12
HardenedBSDx11-wm/theseus-ship6.2.0_4 newestno data-[email protected]-
GhostBSDx11-wm/theseus-ship6.2.0_4 newestno data-[email protected]-

Install

Binary package:

pkg install theseus-ship

From the ports tree:

cd /usr/ports/x11-wm/theseus-ship/ && make install clean

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

RUN_DEPENDS=	theseus-ship>0:x11-wm/theseus-ship

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:latest6.2.0_46.2.0_4-6.2.0_36.2.0_4
FreeBSD:14:quarterly6.2.0_46.2.0_4n/a6.2.0_36.2.0_4
FreeBSD:15:latest6.2.0_46.2.0_4n/a6.2.0_36.2.0_3
FreeBSD:15:quarterly6.2.0_46.2.0_4n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:16:latest6.2.0_46.2.0_4n/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

As this port's Makefile names them.

Library 9

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

Build dependencies 330

The first 100 are listed.

Run dependencies 319

The first 100 are listed.

No port depends on this one.

Configuration

Options name: x11-wm_theseus-ship

OptionDefaultDescription
BREEZEonDefault window decoration plugin
USES
cmake:testing gettext-tools kde:6 pkgconfig qt:6 xorg
Service scripts
none
Conflicts with
plasma6-kwin

Message after installing

Native Wayland on top of KMS console:

  $ export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=$(mktemp -dt run)
  $ dbus-daemon --session --fork --address=unix:runtime=yes
  $ seatd-launch kwin_wayland

Native X11 on top of Xorg:

  $ echo "exec dbus-run-session kwin_x11" >~/.xinitrc
  $ startx

Nested under Wayland as Wayland window manager:

  $ kwin_wayland

Nested under Wayland as X11 window manager:

  $ Xwayland :8 &
  $ DISPLAY=:8 kwin_x11

Nested under X11 as Wayland window manager:

  $ cage kwin_wayland

Nested under X11 as X11 window manager:

  $ Xephyr :8 &
  $ DISPLAY=:8 kwin_x11

Replace KWin in Plasma Desktop:

  $ pkg set -n plasma6-kwin:theseus-ship
  $ pkg set -o x11-wm/plasma6-kwin:x11-wm/theseus-ship
  $ pkg upgrade -f theseus-ship
  $ pkg lock theseus-ship

Improve Wayland responsiveness under high load:

  $ sysrc kld_list+=mac_priority
  $ service kld restart
  $ pw groupmod realtime -m <user>
  $ exit # log out to refresh group permissions

Files

pkg-plist 32
  • bin/kwin_wayland
  • bin/kwin_wayland_wrapper
  • bin/kwin_x11
  • lib/libkcmkwincommon.so.6
  • lib/libkcmkwincommon.so.
  • %%QT_PLUGINDIR%%/kwin/effects/configs/kcm_kwin4_genericscripted.so
  • %%QT_PLUGINDIR%%/plasma/kcms/systemsettings/kcm_kwin_effects.so
  • %%QT_PLUGINDIR%%/plasma/kcms/systemsettings/kcm_kwin_scripts.so
  • %%QT_PLUGINDIR%%/plasma/kcms/systemsettings/kcm_kwin_virtualdesktops.so
  • %%QT_PLUGINDIR%%/plasma/kcms/systemsettings/kcm_kwindecoration.so
  • %%QT_PLUGINDIR%%/plasma/kcms/systemsettings/kcm_kwinrules.so
  • %%QT_PLUGINDIR%%/plasma/kcms/systemsettings_qwidgets/kcm_kwinoptions.so
  • %%QT_PLUGINDIR%%/plasma/kcms/systemsettings_qwidgets/kcm_kwinscreenedges.so
  • %%QT_PLUGINDIR%%/plasma/kcms/systemsettings_qwidgets/kcm_kwintouchscreen.so
  • %%QT_PLUGINDIR%%/plasma/kcms/systemsettings_qwidgets/kwincompositing.so
  • %%QT_QMLDIR%%/org/kde/kwin/private/kdecoration/kde-qmlmodule.version
  • %%QT_QMLDIR%%/org/kde/kwin/private/kdecoration/kdecorationprivatedeclarative.qmltypes
  • %%QT_QMLDIR%%/org/kde/kwin/private/kdecoration/libkdecorationprivatedeclarative.so
  • %%QT_QMLDIR%%/org/kde/kwin/private/kdecoration/qmldir
  • libexec/kwin-applywindowdecoration
  • share/applications/kcm_kwin_effects.desktop
  • share/applications/kcm_kwin_scripts.desktop
  • share/applications/kcm_kwin_virtualdesktops.desktop
  • share/applications/kcm_kwindecoration.desktop
  • share/applications/kcm_kwinoptions.desktop
  • share/applications/kcm_kwinrules.desktop
  • share/applications/kwincompositing.desktop
  • share/config.kcfg/kwindecorationsettings.kcfg
  • share/config.kcfg/virtualdesktopssettings.kcfg
  • share/knsrcfiles/kwineffect.knsrc
  • share/knsrcfiles/kwinscripts.knsrc
  • share/knsrcfiles/window-decorations.knsrc
distinfo 2
FileSizeSHA256
winft-theseus-ship-v6.2.0_GH0.tar.gz2.693734e+061f3567a4b1dd1a69046fe8669d624f4245733a72354025f127e732f4600fde18
01030427325c.patch569540bc1b46f324391ebeaf557b2b281deaa84182db1c7af4cf95f5b9508cf8a10b2

Commit history 1

DateCommitCreditsLog message
127fef6565 Dima Panov x11-wm/theseus-ship: fix build after latest frameworks update
Add missing #include <QQmlEngine> Reported by: bulk -t