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Port details
emwm Enhanced Motif Window Manager
2.0 x11-wm on this many watch lists=1 search for ports that depend on this port Find issues related to this port Report an issue related to this port View this port on Repology. pkg-fallout 1.3.1Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.
Maintainer: stephan@lichtenauer.co.za search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2023-07-11 22:14:20
Last Update: 2026-06-19 23:59:14
Commit Hash: 9586617
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License: LGPL21+
WWW:
https://fastestcode.org/emwm.html
Description:
EMWM is a fork of the Motif Window Manager with fixes and enhancements. It provides compatibility with current xorg extensions and applications, without changing the way the window manager looks and behaves. This includes support for multi-monitor setups trough Xinerama/Xrandr, UFT-8 support with Xft fonts, and overall better compatibility with software that requires Extended Window Manager Hints.
Homepage    cgit ¦ Codeberg ¦ GitHub ¦ GitLab ¦ SVNWeb - no subversion history for this port

Manual pages:
pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
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  1. /usr/local/share/licenses/emwm-2.0/catalog.mk
  2. /usr/local/share/licenses/emwm-2.0/LICENSE
  3. /usr/local/share/licenses/emwm-2.0/LGPL21+
  4. @dir etc/X11/app-defaults
  5. @dir etc/X11
  6. bin/emwm
  7. etc/X11/system.emwmrc
  8. etc/X11/app-defaults/Emwm
  9. share/man/man1/emwm.1.gz
  10. share/man/man4/emwmrc.4.gz
  11. @owner
  12. @group
  13. @mode
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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
  • no SUBR information found for this port
Dependency lines:
  • emwm>0:x11-wm/emwm
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/x11-wm/emwm/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install x11-wm/emwm
  • pkg install emwm
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: emwm
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1781877495 SHA256 (emwm-src-2.0.tar.xz) = f04f8874b47a3279fa02ad902646b276938501518ce50f5751e85fe6081fb630 SIZE (emwm-src-2.0.tar.xz) = 298204
Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
emwm
ABIaarch64amd64armv6armv7i386powerpcpowerpc64powerpc64le
FreeBSD:13:latest1.3.11.3.1-1.31.3.1n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:13:quarterly1.3.11.3.1-1.31.3.1n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:14:latest2.02.0-1.32.0---
FreeBSD:14:quarterly1.3.11.3.1-1.31.3.11.11.11.1
FreeBSD:15:latest2.02.0n/a1.3n/an/a1.11.2
FreeBSD:15:quarterly1.3.11.3.1n/a-n/an/a--
FreeBSD:16:latest2.02.0n/a-n/an/a--
Dependencies
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Build dependencies:
  1. groff : textproc/groff
  2. x11.pc : x11/libX11
  3. xext.pc : x11/libXext
  4. xinerama.pc : x11/libXinerama
  5. xrandr.pc : x11/libXrandr
  6. xt.pc : x11-toolkits/libXt
  7. xpm.pc : x11/libXpm
Runtime dependencies:
  1. x11.pc : x11/libX11
  2. xext.pc : x11/libXext
  3. xinerama.pc : x11/libXinerama
  4. xrandr.pc : x11/libXrandr
  5. xt.pc : x11-toolkits/libXt
  6. xpm.pc : x11/libXpm
Library dependencies:
  1. libXm.so.4 : x11-toolkits/open-motif
This port is required by:
for Run
  1. x11-wm/emwm-utils
Configuration Options:
No options to configure
Options name:
x11-wm_emwm
USES:
groff:build motif tar:xz xorg
FreshPorts was unable to extract/find any pkg message
Master Sites:
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  1. https://fastestcode.org/dl/
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Number of commits found: 7

Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page)
CommitCreditsLog message
2.0
19 Jun 2026 23:59:14
commit hash: 958661757e0c9149ce1d1bb55ce6a1e61b07a6fccommit hash: 958661757e0c9149ce1d1bb55ce6a1e61b07a6fccommit hash: 958661757e0c9149ce1d1bb55ce6a1e61b07a6fccommit hash: 958661757e0c9149ce1d1bb55ce6a1e61b07a6fc files touched by this commit		 Vladimir Druzenko (vvd) search for other commits by this committer
Author: Stephan Lichtenauer		 
x11-wm/emwm: Update 1.3.1 => 2.0

Changelog:
https://fastestcode.org/emwm-changes.txt

PR:		296152
Sponsored by:	UNIS Labs
1.3.1
26 Nov 2025 11:19:22
commit hash: 1073027c4e36792103eae0174b7dd842e6f22262commit hash: 1073027c4e36792103eae0174b7dd842e6f22262commit hash: 1073027c4e36792103eae0174b7dd842e6f22262commit hash: 1073027c4e36792103eae0174b7dd842e6f22262 files touched by this commit		 Vladimir Druzenko (vvd) search for other commits by this committer
Author: Stephan Lichtenauer		 
x11-wm/emwm: Update 1.3 => 1.3.1

Changelog:
- Maintenance release, fixing compilation issues with newer compilers.
https://fastestcode.org/emwm-changes.txt

Improve do-install goal, parametrize DISTNAME with PORTNAME.

PR:	291062
1.3
11 Mar 2025 00:02:15
commit hash: b1d5644c0200eebc2b19c14d0cce76e859c56225commit hash: b1d5644c0200eebc2b19c14d0cce76e859c56225commit hash: b1d5644c0200eebc2b19c14d0cce76e859c56225commit hash: b1d5644c0200eebc2b19c14d0cce76e859c56225 files touched by this commit		 Nuno Teixeira (eduardo) search for other commits by this committer
Author: gatekeeper		 
x11-wm/emwm: Update to 1.3

ChangeLog:	https://fastestcode.org/emwm-changes.txt
PR:		285227
1.2_2
11 Apr 2024 16:00:43
commit hash: 8b259be1e019ad46349f61b98a4e2f9bea65390dcommit hash: 8b259be1e019ad46349f61b98a4e2f9bea65390dcommit hash: 8b259be1e019ad46349f61b98a4e2f9bea65390dcommit hash: 8b259be1e019ad46349f61b98a4e2f9bea65390d files touched by this commit		 Gleb Popov (arrowd) search for other commits by this committer 
x11-wm/emwm: Remove unnecessary lines from pkg-plist

Approved by:	portmgr (blanket)
1.2_1
26 Feb 2024 17:52:37
commit hash: 29383be5a6930cf8a9e5e636f4b8785d3990756fcommit hash: 29383be5a6930cf8a9e5e636f4b8785d3990756fcommit hash: 29383be5a6930cf8a9e5e636f4b8785d3990756fcommit hash: 29383be5a6930cf8a9e5e636f4b8785d3990756f files touched by this commit		 Muhammad Moinur Rahman (bofh) search for other commits by this committer 
x11-wm/emwm: Moved man to share/man

Approved by:    portmgr (blanket)
1.2
10 Feb 2024 19:06:43
commit hash: f8ceee774489755d3615c17ec5ee5120fceb05adcommit hash: f8ceee774489755d3615c17ec5ee5120fceb05adcommit hash: f8ceee774489755d3615c17ec5ee5120fceb05adcommit hash: f8ceee774489755d3615c17ec5ee5120fceb05ad files touched by this commit		 Muhammad Moinur Rahman (bofh) search for other commits by this committer
Author: Stephan Lichtenauer		 
x11-wm/emwm: Update version 1.1=>1.2

PR:		276874
Approved by:	submitter is maintainer
1.1
11 Jul 2023 22:07:31
commit hash: 574f9547cf9a2f7105e05d706a5a149bd8fdc492commit hash: 574f9547cf9a2f7105e05d706a5a149bd8fdc492commit hash: 574f9547cf9a2f7105e05d706a5a149bd8fdc492commit hash: 574f9547cf9a2f7105e05d706a5a149bd8fdc492 files touched by this commit		 Robert Clausecker (fuz) search for other commits by this committer
Author: Stephan Lichtenauer		 
x11-wm/emwm: Enhanced Motif Window Manager

EMWM is a fork of the Motif Window Manager with fixes and enhancements. It
provides compatibility with current xorg extensions and applications, without
changing the way the window manager looks and behaves. This includes support for
multi-monitor setups trough Xinerama/Xrandr, UFT-8 support with Xft fonts, and
overall better compatibility with software that requires Extended Window Manager
Hints.

WWW: https://fastestcode.org/emwm.html

PR:		271954

Number of commits found: 7
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