| Port details |
- nyxt Keyboard-driven web browser which uses WebKitGTK backend
- 3.12.0_9 www
 =1      3.12.0_8Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch. - Maintainer: eduardo@FreeBSD.org
- Port Added: 2025-02-01 15:48:05
- Last Update: 2026-07-03 09:14:06
- Commit Hash: 9ab7b70f
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- License: BSD3CLAUSE CC-BY-SA-3.0
- WWW:
- https://nyxt.atlas.engineer/
- Description:
- Nyxt is a keyboard-driven web browser designed for hackers. Inspired by Emacs
and Vim, it has familiar keybindings (Emacs, vi, CUA), and is infinitely
extensible in Lisp.
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- Manual pages:
- FreshPorts has no man page information for this port.
- pkg-plist: as obtained via:
make generate-plist - USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
- no SUBR information found for this port
- Dependency lines:
-
- To install the port:
- cd /usr/ports/www/nyxt/ && make install clean
- To add the package, run one of these commands:
- pkg install www/nyxt
- pkg install nyxt
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.- PKGNAME: nyxt
- Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
- NOT_FOR_ARCHS: i386
- distinfo:
- TIMESTAMP = 1737014955
SHA256 (nyxt-3.12.0-source-with-submodules.tar.xz) = 9355f6f0cc26505130b8e016b1d8457fe06e984aa1bcd516dae250445bc9a554
SIZE (nyxt-3.12.0-source-with-submodules.tar.xz) = 18095860
Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
- Dependencies
- NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
- Build dependencies:
-
- git>0 : devel/git
- sbcl>0 : lang/sbcl
- update-desktop-database : devel/desktop-file-utils
- gmake>=4.4.1 : devel/gmake
- pkgconf>=1.3.0_1 : devel/pkgconf
- gstreamer1-libav>=1.28.4 : multimedia/gstreamer1-libav
- gstreamer1-plugins-bad>=1.28.4 : multimedia/gstreamer1-plugins-bad
- gstreamer1-plugins-good>=1.28.4 : multimedia/gstreamer1-plugins-good
- gstreamer1-plugins>=1.28.4 : multimedia/gstreamer1-plugins
- Runtime dependencies:
-
- update-desktop-database : devel/desktop-file-utils
- gstreamer1-libav>=1.28.4 : multimedia/gstreamer1-libav
- gstreamer1-plugins-bad>=1.28.4 : multimedia/gstreamer1-plugins-bad
- gstreamer1-plugins-good>=1.28.4 : multimedia/gstreamer1-plugins-good
- gstreamer1-plugins>=1.28.4 : multimedia/gstreamer1-plugins
- Library dependencies:
-
- libfixposix.so : devel/libfixposix
- libwebkit2gtk-4.1.so : www/webkit2-gtk@41
- libzstd.so : archivers/zstd
- libgstreamer-1.0.so : multimedia/gstreamer1
- There are no ports dependent upon this port
Configuration Options:- ===> The following configuration options are available for nyxt-3.12.0_9:
GSTREAMER=on: Multimedia support via GStreamer
===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
- Options name:
- www_nyxt
- USES:
- desktop-file-utils gmake pkgconfig tar:xz gstreamer
- pkg-message:
- For install:
- If you experience a blank screen or freeze after execution, try setting the
WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE environment variable to 1. For example:
$ env WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 nyxt <URL>
- Master Sites:
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| Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page) |
| Commit | Credits | Log message |
|---|
3.12.0_9
03 Jul 2026 09:14:06
 |
Kirill Ponomarev (krion) |
*/*: Bump PORTREVISION on *-sbcl ports after lang/sbcl upgrade. |
3.12.0_8
30 Jun 2026 16:33:21
|
Piotr Kubaj (pkubaj) |
www/nyxt: fix build on powerpc64le and possibly others
On powerpc64le (optimize debug) removes some optimizations that
by default remove dead code. Here in particular that dead code is also
incorrect and it causes:
Unhandled UIOP/LISP-BUILD:COMPILE-FILE-ERROR in thread #<SB-THREAD:THREAD
tid=612698 "main thread" RUNNING
{1001AB051C}>:
COMPILE-FILE-ERROR while compiling #<CL-SOURCE-FILE "idna" "decode"> |
3.12.0_8
30 May 2026 17:12:36
|
Kirill Ponomarev (krion) |
*/*: Bump PORTREVISION on *-sbcl ports after lang/sbcl upgrade. |
3.12.0_7
30 Apr 2026 13:01:20
|
Kirill Ponomarev (krion) |
*/*: Bump PORTREVISION on *-sbcl ports after lang/sbcl upgrade. |
3.12.0_6
30 Mar 2026 18:47:28
|
Kirill Ponomarev (krion) |
*/*: Bump PORTREVISION on *-sbcl ports after lang/sbcl upgrade. |
3.12.0_5
02 Mar 2026 19:51:36
|
Nuno Teixeira (eduardo)
Author: Shamaz Mazum |
www/nyxt: Unbreak with SBCL >= 2.5.11
PR: 293549 |
3.12.0_5
28 Feb 2026 06:33:38
|
Kirill Ponomarev (krion) |
*/*: Bump PORTREVISION on *-sbcl ports after lang/sbcl upgrade. |
3.12.0_4
23 Feb 2026 16:19:53
|
Kirill Ponomarev (krion) |
*/*: Bump PORTREVISION on *-sbcl ports after lang/sbcl upgrade. |
3.12.0_3
09 Nov 2025 18:09:23
|
Nuno Teixeira (eduardo)
Author: Vasily Postnicov |
www/nyxt: Fix runtime with newer SBCL
PR: 290890
Reported by: David <djireland79[AT]gmail[DOT]com>
MFH: 2025Q4 (runtime fix) |
3.12.0_2
09 Oct 2025 19:39:01
|
Nuno Teixeira (eduardo) |
www/nyxt: Add i386 to NOT_FOR_ARCHS
Build depend lang/sbcl is only available to amd64 and i386.
Exclude nyxt from i386 since it isn't supported upstream as I investigated.
Error log:
https://pkg-status.freebsd.org/beefy18/data/143i386-default/0f586647e560/logs/nyxt-3.12.0_2.log |
3.12.0_2
31 Aug 2025 10:30:51
|
Rene Ladan (rene) |
all: bump PORTREVISION after updating graphics/libyuv
Using the Tools/scripts/bump_revision.pl script |
3.12.0_1
01 Feb 2025 18:26:02
|
Nuno Teixeira (eduardo) |
www/nyxt: Add pkg-message
Add a message about using WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 workaround.
PR: 284258
Reported by: shamaz.mazum[at]gmail[dot]com |
3.12.0
01 Feb 2025 15:35:53
|
Nuno Teixeira (eduardo) |
www/nyxt: New port: Keyboard-driven web browser which uses WebKitGTK backend
Nyxt is a keyboard-driven web browser designed for hackers. Inspired by Emacs
and Vim, it has familiar keybindings (Emacs, vi, CUA), and is infinitely
extensible in Lisp.
WWW: https://nyxt.atlas.engineer/
Co-authored by: shamaz.mazum[at]gmail[dot]com
PR: 284258 |
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