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Port details on branch 2023Q3
sway i3-compatible Wayland compositor
1.8.1_1 x11-wm on this many watch lists=0 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 1.8.1_1Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.
Maintainer: jbeich@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2023-07-23 19:30:05
Last Update: 2023-07-23 19:25:49
Commit Hash: 046c50f
Also Listed In: wayland
License: MIT
WWW:
https://swaywm.org/
Description:
Sway is a tiling Wayland compositor and a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager for X11. It works with your existing i3 configuration and supports most of i3's features, plus a few extras.
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/sway-1.8.1_1/catalog.mk
  2. /usr/local/share/licenses/sway-1.8.1_1/LICENSE
  3. /usr/local/share/licenses/sway-1.8.1_1/MIT
  4. bin/sway
  5. bin/swaybar
  6. bin/swaymsg
  7. bin/swaynag
  8. @sample etc/sway/config.sample
  9. man/man1/sway.1.gz
  10. man/man1/swaymsg.1.gz
  11. man/man1/swaynag.1.gz
  12. man/man5/sway-bar.5.gz
  13. man/man5/sway-input.5.gz
  14. man/man5/sway-output.5.gz
  15. man/man5/sway.5.gz
  16. man/man5/swaynag.5.gz
  17. man/man7/sway-ipc.7.gz
  18. man/man7/swaybar-protocol.7.gz
  19. share/backgrounds/sway/Sway_Wallpaper_Blue_1136x640.png
  20. share/backgrounds/sway/Sway_Wallpaper_Blue_1136x640_Portrait.png
  21. share/backgrounds/sway/Sway_Wallpaper_Blue_1366x768.png
  22. share/backgrounds/sway/Sway_Wallpaper_Blue_1920x1080.png
  23. share/backgrounds/sway/Sway_Wallpaper_Blue_2048x1536.png
  24. share/backgrounds/sway/Sway_Wallpaper_Blue_2048x1536_Portrait.png
  25. share/backgrounds/sway/Sway_Wallpaper_Blue_768x1024.png
  26. share/backgrounds/sway/Sway_Wallpaper_Blue_768x1024_Portrait.png
  27. share/bash-completion/completions/sway
  28. share/bash-completion/completions/swaybar
  29. share/bash-completion/completions/swaymsg
  30. share/fish/vendor_completions.d/sway.fish
  31. share/fish/vendor_completions.d/swaymsg.fish
  32. share/fish/vendor_completions.d/swaynag.fish
  33. share/wayland-sessions/sway.desktop
  34. share/zsh/site-functions/_sway
  35. share/zsh/site-functions/_swaymsg
  36. @owner
  37. @group
  38. @mode
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Dependency lines:
  • sway>0:x11-wm/sway
Conflicts:
CONFLICTS_INSTALL:
  • sway-devel
  • swayfx
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/x11-wm/sway/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install x11-wm/sway
  • pkg install sway
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: sway
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1679910352 SHA256 (swaywm-sway-1.8.1_GH0.tar.gz) = e9f575761342fc8fe0cfeea80c90f32ddfa8c543572fec179f40922346f47dff SIZE (swaywm-sway-1.8.1_GH0.tar.gz) = 5577483

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SHA256 (cd9d1038a822.patch) = 266891cbe27a67f81740879dbe39819e3bf0f17b681bdc93087ae05987c2f88d SIZE (cd9d1038a822.patch) = 8968 SHA256 (f98ca3ab7ca1.patch) = b3a427b6edbf1c89bbf5fdeb5e3fc4c6708478e6d2031fcead87d29bf5c409fa SIZE (f98ca3ab7ca1.patch) = 2673 SHA256 (dee032d0a0ec.patch) = 7f6673efaf77bfa90368c71afc320cc7fe59b04fcb1238dc369563ce87bf3029 SIZE (dee032d0a0ec.patch) = 1908

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Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
sway
ABIaarch64amd64armv6armv7i386powerpcpowerpc64powerpc64le
FreeBSD:13:latest1.10.1_11.10.1_11.5.1_1-1.10.1_1---
FreeBSD:13:quarterly1.10.11.10.1--1.10.1-1.8.1_21.8.1_2
FreeBSD:14:latest1.10.1_11.10.1_1--1.10.1_11.8.1_1-1.8.1_1
FreeBSD:14:quarterly1.10.11.10.1--1.10.1-1.8.1_21.8.1_2
FreeBSD:15:latest1.10.1_11.10.1_1n/a-n/a-1.8.1_3-
Dependencies
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Build dependencies:
  1. evdev-proto>0 : devel/evdev-proto
  2. wayland-protocols>=1.24 : graphics/wayland-protocols
  3. wlroots>=0.16.0<0.17.0 : x11-toolkits/wlroots
  4. scdoc>=1.9.2 : textproc/scdoc
  5. meson : devel/meson
  6. ninja : devel/ninja
  7. pkgconf>=1.3.0_1 : devel/pkgconf
  8. pixman-1.pc : x11/pixman
  9. xcb.pc : x11/libxcb
Runtime dependencies:
  1. swaybg : x11/swaybg
  2. pixman-1.pc : x11/pixman
  3. xcb.pc : x11/libxcb
Library dependencies:
  1. libjson-c.so : devel/json-c
  2. libevdev.so : devel/libevdev
  3. libudev.so : devel/libudev-devd
  4. libpcre2-8.so : devel/pcre2
  5. libwayland-egl.so : graphics/wayland
  6. libwlroots.so : x11-toolkits/wlroots
  7. libinput.so : x11/libinput
  8. libxkbcommon.so : x11/libxkbcommon
  9. libbasu.so : devel/basu
  10. libxcb-icccm.so : x11/xcb-util-wm
  11. libGLESv2.so : graphics/libglvnd
  12. libcairo.so : graphics/cairo
  13. libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so : graphics/gdk-pixbuf2
  14. libglib-2.0.so : devel/glib20
  15. libintl.so : devel/gettext-runtime
  16. libpango-1.0.so : x11-toolkits/pango
There are no ports dependent upon this port
Configuration Options:
===> The following configuration options are available for sway-1.8.1_1: BASU=on: Tray in swaybar via basu MANPAGES=on: Build and/or install manual pages PIXBUF=on: GDK-PixBuf library support SWAYBG=on: Default command to set background X11=on: X11 (graphics) support ===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
Options name:
x11-wm_sway
USES:
compiler:c11 gl gnome meson pkgconfig xorg
pkg-message:
For install:
Notes: - sway(1) can use mac_priority(4) to avoid stutter during high load Experimental features: - HiDPI support for X11 applications. For instructions see https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wlroots/wlroots/-/merge_requests/2064#note_1139855
Master Sites:
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  1. https://codeload.github.com/swaywm/sway/tar.gz/1.8.1?dummy=/
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Number of commits found: 1

Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page)
CommitCreditsLog message
1.8.1_1
23 Jul 2023 19:25:49
commit hash: 046c50fbf21ffaeabd09fbce9f4e36c202c7f4d6commit hash: 046c50fbf21ffaeabd09fbce9f4e36c202c7f4d6commit hash: 046c50fbf21ffaeabd09fbce9f4e36c202c7f4d6commit hash: 046c50fbf21ffaeabd09fbce9f4e36c202c7f4d6 files touched by this commit		 Jan Beich (jbeich) search for other commits by this committer 
x11-wm/sway: suggest mac_priority(4) after b22b6eeffd22

FreeBSD lacks setcap(8) + CAP_SYS_NICE, so permissions to set realtime
priorities like SCHED_RR are group-wide and disabled by default.

$ sway
[...]
00:00:00.024 [INFO] [sway/realtime.c:35] Failed to set scheduling priority to 0
[...]

https://github.com/swaywm/sway/commit/a3a82efbf6b5
(cherry picked from commit 4964754e0887621cd09afff61ee86c6c4c7d783b)

Number of commits found: 1
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