x11/awww 0.12.1_3 FreeBSD

Answer to your Wayland Wallpaper Woes

System: FreeBSD
Repository: FreeBSD ports
Maintainer: [email protected]
Port added: 2026-07-17
Last update: 2026-10-14
Commit: 9c878207a1
License: GPLv3
Categories: x11
Package size: 1913.6 KiB, 6214.1 KiB installed

Description

Efficient animated wallpaper daemon for wayland, controlled at runtime.

Features

- Display animated gifs on your desktop
- Display any image in the formats:
    - jpeg
    - png
    - gif
    - pnm
    - tga
    - tiff
    - webp
    - bmp
    - farbfeld
- Clear the screen with an arbitrary rrggbb color
- Smooth transition effect when you switch images
- Do all of that without having to shutdown and reinitialize the daemon

In the other systems

System

Port

Version

FreeBSD

x11/awww

0.12.1_3

OpenBSD

wayland/awww

0.12.1pl20260714

Install

Binary package:

pkg install awww

From the ports tree:

cd /usr/ports/x11/awww/ && make install clean

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

RUN_DEPENDS=	awww>0:x11/awww

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

0.12.1_2

0.12.1_3

FreeBSD:14:quarterly

0.12.1_2

n/a

0.12.1_2

FreeBSD:15:latest

0.12.1_3

n/a

FreeBSD:15:quarterly

0.12.1_2

n/a

FreeBSD:16:latest

0.12.1_2

0.12.1_3

n/a

FreeBSD:16:quarterly

n/a

Dependencies

As this port's Makefile names them.

Build 3

scdoc : textproc/scdoc
wayland-protocols>=1.44 : graphics/wayland-protocols
wayland>=1.23.1 : graphics/wayland

Library 1

liblz4.so : archivers/liblz4

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

Build dependencies 20

Run dependencies 4

No port depends on this one.

Configuration

Options name: x11_awww

Option

Default

Description

EXAMPLES

off

Build and/or install examples

USES: cargo pkgconfig shebangfix
Service scripts: none

Message after installing

Starting from version 0.10 the command swww init, previously deprecated, has
been properly deleted. The correct way of initializing the daemon is calling
swww-daemon directly.

Files

Manual pages 9

awww(1)
awww-clear(1)
awww-clear-cache(1)
awww-daemon(1)
awww-img(1)
awww-kill(1)
awww-pause(1)
awww-query(1)
awww-restore(1)

pkg-plist 16

bin/awww
bin/awww-daemon
share/examples/awww/README.md
share/examples/awww/awww_init_according_to_time_of_day.sh
share/examples/awww/awww_randomize.sh
share/examples/awww/awww_randomize_multi.sh
share/examples/awww/awww_scheduler.sh
share/man/man1/awww-clear-cache.1.gz
share/man/man1/awww-clear.1.gz
share/man/man1/awww-daemon.1.gz
share/man/man1/awww-img.1.gz
share/man/man1/awww-kill.1.gz
share/man/man1/awww-pause.1.gz
share/man/man1/awww-query.1.gz
share/man/man1/awww-restore.1.gz
share/man/man1/awww.1.gz

distinfo 183

File

Size

SHA256

awww-v0.12.1.tar.gz

134466

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rust/crates/adler2-2.0.1.crate

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rust/crates/ahash-0.8.12.crate

43413

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rust/crates/alloc-no-stdlib-2.0.4.crate

10105

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rust/crates/alloc-stdlib-0.2.2.crate

6693

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rust/crates/anstream-1.0.0.crate

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17787

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rust/crates/anstyle-parse-1.0.0.crate

22042

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rust/crates/anstyle-wincon-3.0.11.crate

12638

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rust/crates/arrayref-0.3.9.crate

9186

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rust/crates/arrayvec-0.7.6.crate

31237

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rust/crates/assert_cmd-2.2.1.crate

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rust/crates/autocfg-1.5.0.crate

18729

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rust/crates/av-data-0.4.4.crate

17576

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rust/crates/base64-0.22.1.crate

81597

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rust/crates/bit_field-0.10.3.crate

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rust/crates/bitflags-2.11.1.crate

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rust/crates/bitreader-0.3.11.crate

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195282

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Master sites 1

https://codeberg.org/LGFae/awww/archive/${DISTVERSIONFULL}${EXTRACT_SUFX}?dummy=/

Commit history 4

Date Commit Credits Log message

2026-10-14

9c878207a1

Mikael Urankar

lang/rust: Bump revisions after 1.99.0

PR: 299016

2026-09-08

7316461925

Mikael Urankar

lang/rust: Bump revisions after 1.98.1

PR: 298139

2026-07-21

9c892d2601

Mikael Urankar

lang/rust: Bump revisions after 1.97.1

PR: 296645

2026-07-17

d1e5b33308

Hiroki Tagato

x11/awww: Rename from x11/swww, update to 0.12.1, and unbreak

The upstream has moved from GitHub to Codeberg and renamed from swww to awww. Update to the latest version and unbreak build. While here, add a patch to use std::process::Command for commmand execution instead of Linux-specific rustix::runtime. Changelog: https://codeberg.org/LGFae/awww/src/tag/v0.12.1/CHANGELOG.md PR: 296847 Approved by: nivit (maintainer)