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Port details
wayst Simple terminal emulator for Wayland and X11
g20260608 x11 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 g20260608Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.
Maintainer: seafork@disroot.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2025-07-08 07:51:03
Last Update: 2026-06-26 22:20:55
Commit Hash: f7edd01
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Also Listed In: wayland
License: MIT
WWW:
https://github.com/91861/wayst
Description:
Simple terminal emulator for Wayland and X11 with OpenGL rendering and minimal dependencies. # Features - Unicode support - Text reflow - 24-bit colors - Dynamic colors - All text properties (squiggly underline, blinking, overline etc.) - Resizable font - Subpixel antialiasing - Mouse reporting - Scrollback - Mouse text selection - Clipboard - Configurable keybindings - Clickable links, OSC 8 links - Command history and marks - Terminal image protocol and sixel graphics (experimental)
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Manual pages:
FreshPorts has no man page information for this port.
pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
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  1. bin/wayst
  2. @sample /usr/local/etc/wayst/config.sample
  3. /usr/local/share/applications/wayst.desktop
  4. /usr/local/share/licenses/wayst-g20260608/catalog.mk
  5. /usr/local/share/licenses/wayst-g20260608/LICENSE
  6. /usr/local/share/licenses/wayst-g20260608/MIT
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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
  • no SUBR information found for this port
Dependency lines:
  • wayst>0:x11/wayst
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/x11/wayst/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install x11/wayst
  • pkg install wayst
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: wayst
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1782511650 SHA256 (91861-wayst-g20260608-51a1c97_GH0.tar.gz) = 7400ed3ad383e29a9264faeda16e51a0b7a00033ea4fc739b7fc6593d5d709ab SIZE (91861-wayst-g20260608-51a1c97_GH0.tar.gz) = 624015

Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
wayst
ABIaarch64amd64armv6armv7i386powerpcpowerpc64powerpc64le
FreeBSD:13:latestg20250601g20250601--g20250601n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:13:quarterlyg20250601g20250601--g20250601n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:14:latestg20260608g20260608--g20260608---
FreeBSD:14:quarterlyg20260608g20260608--g20260608---
FreeBSD:15:latestg20260608g20260608n/a-n/an/a--
FreeBSD:15:quarterlyg20260608g20260608n/a-n/an/a--
FreeBSD:16:latestg20260608g20260608n/a-n/an/a--
Dependencies
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Build dependencies:
  1. gmake>=4.4.1 : devel/gmake
  2. pkgconf>=1.3.0_1 : devel/pkgconf
  3. xorgproto>=0 : x11/xorgproto
  4. x11.pc : x11/libX11
  5. xrandr.pc : x11/libXrandr
  6. xrender.pc : x11/libXrender
Runtime dependencies:
  1. x11.pc : x11/libX11
  2. xrandr.pc : x11/libXrandr
  3. xrender.pc : x11/libXrender
Library dependencies:
  1. libfontconfig.so : x11-fonts/fontconfig
  2. libfreetype.so : print/freetype2
  3. libutf8proc.so : textproc/utf8proc
  4. libwayland-client.so : graphics/wayland
  5. libxkbcommon.so : x11/libxkbcommon
  6. libEGL.so : graphics/libglvnd
  7. libGL.so : graphics/libglvnd
There are no ports dependent upon this port

Configuration Options:
===> The following configuration options are available for wayst-g20260608: ====> Options available for the multi BACKEND: you have to choose at least one of them WAYLAND=on: Use Wayland as the windowing protocol X11=on: Use X11 as the windowing protocol ===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
Options name:
x11_wayst
USES:
gl gmake pkgconfig xorg
FreshPorts was unable to extract/find any pkg message
Master Sites:
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  1. https://codeload.github.com/91861/wayst/tar.gz/51a1c97?dummy=/
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Number of commits found: 3

Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page)
CommitCreditsLog message
g20260608
26 Jun 2026 22:20:55
commit hash: f7edd01eceb19e14ac993e766884969d4011bc90commit hash: f7edd01eceb19e14ac993e766884969d4011bc90commit hash: f7edd01eceb19e14ac993e766884969d4011bc90commit hash: f7edd01eceb19e14ac993e766884969d4011bc90 files touched by this commit
Vladimir Druzenko (vvd) search for other commits by this committer
Author: Amelia Marsh
x11/wayst: Update g20250601 => g20260608

Commit log:
- Fix at least 2 buffer overflows.
https://github.com/91861/wayst/compare/f5a6c22...51a1c97

- Add a .desktop file ripped from the build files of the port.
- Add an example configuration file.
- Move the BROKEN entry below the LICENSE entry in accordance with
  `portfmt`.

PR:		296298
Sponsored by:	UNIS Labs
Co-authored-by:	Vladimir Druzenko <vvd@FreeBSD.org>
MFH:		2026Q2
g20250601
04 Feb 2026 12:41:14
commit hash: 71e8bf055bf2be2092d87e2b9f688699cca89d3ecommit hash: 71e8bf055bf2be2092d87e2b9f688699cca89d3ecommit hash: 71e8bf055bf2be2092d87e2b9f688699cca89d3ecommit hash: 71e8bf055bf2be2092d87e2b9f688699cca89d3e files touched by this commit
Robert Clausecker (fuz) search for other commits by this committer
x11/wayst: broken on armv7

In file included from src/gfx_gl2.c:3:
src/vt.h:278:1: error: requested alignment is less than minimum alignment of 8
for type 'VtCommand'
  278 | DEF_RC_PTR(VtCommand, VtCommand_destroy);
      | ^
src/rcptr.h:24:9: note: expanded from macro 'DEF_RC_PTR'
   24 |         alignas(alignof(void*)) t payload;                              
                          \
      |         ^
/usr/include/stdalign.h:34:19: note: expanded from macro 'alignas'
   34 | #define alignas                 _Alignas
      |                                 ^

MFH:		2026Q1
See also:	https://github.com/91861/wayst/issues/120
Approved by:	portmgr (build fix blanket)
g20250601
08 Jul 2025 07:48:53
commit hash: 47630de0352f5cfede00cf783efd13879a5e65cecommit hash: 47630de0352f5cfede00cf783efd13879a5e65cecommit hash: 47630de0352f5cfede00cf783efd13879a5e65cecommit hash: 47630de0352f5cfede00cf783efd13879a5e65ce files touched by this commit
Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) search for other commits by this committer
Author: seafork
x11/wayst: new port: Simple terminal emulator for Wayland and X11

Simple terminal emulator for Wayland and X11 with OpenGL rendering and
minimal dependencies.

Features:
- Unicode support
- Text reflow
- 24-bit colors
- Dynamic colors
- All text properties (squiggly underline, blinking, overline etc.)
- Resizable font
- Subpixel antialiasing
- Mouse reporting
- Scrollback
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Number of commits found: 3