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Port details
river-classic Dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
0.3.17 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 0.3.15Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.
Maintainer: siva@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2026-04-01 15:24:26
Last Update: 2026-08-21 08:24:37
Commit Hash: 7346801
Also Listed In: wayland
License: GPLv3+
WWW:
https://isaacfreund.com/software/river/
Description:
River is a non-monolithic Wayland compositor. Unlike other Wayland compositors, river does not combine the compositor and window manager into one program. Instead, users can choose any window manager implementing the river-window-management-v1 protocol. Note: river is currently early in development. Expect breaking changes and missing features. Bugs should however be rare at this point, if you run into one don't hesitate to open an issue upstream.
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/river-classic-0.3.17/catalog.mk
  2. /usr/local/share/licenses/river-classic-0.3.17/LICENSE
  3. /usr/local/share/licenses/river-classic-0.3.17/GPLv3+
  4. bin/river
  5. bin/riverctl
  6. bin/rivertile
  7. share/man/man1/river.1.gz
  8. share/man/man1/riverctl.1.gz
  9. share/man/man1/rivertile.1.gz
  10. share/pkgconfig/river-protocols.pc
  11. share/bash-completion/completions/riverctl
  12. share/fish/vendor_completions.d/riverctl.fish
  13. share/river-protocols/river-layout-v3.xml
  14. share/zsh/site-functions/_riverctl
  15. @owner
  16. @group
  17. @mode
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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
  • no SUBR information found for this port
Dependency lines:
  • river-classic>0:x11-wm/river-classic
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/x11-wm/river-classic/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install x11-wm/river-classic
  • pkg install river-classic
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: river-classic
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1787298148 SHA256 (zig/river-classic-0.3.17.tar.gz) = ecd5e632a417b1d79e23180bf0073c8d8f849180ebb9138e5fa71ec8bfe15fdd SIZE (zig/river-classic-0.3.17.tar.gz) = 178596

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SHA256 (zig/arocc-5f5a050569a95ecc40a426f0c3666ae7ef987ede.tar.gz) = e20b49a13049e8ef5aa1d798a70d8fc02b691fe44c7c78928aae3d363a1deb7e SIZE (zig/arocc-5f5a050569a95ecc40a426f0c3666ae7ef987ede.tar.gz) = 944918 SHA256 (zig/zig-pixman-0.3.0.tar.gz) = 4b0b57ce37f7bb3a2c2fc76eec93d060830d2c92155bf2a6baa43d61ad05499e SIZE (zig/zig-pixman-0.3.0.tar.gz) = 7976 SHA256 (zig/translate-c-7a1a9fdc4ab00835748a6657ecbb835e3d5d45f7.tar.gz) = 78e6203bcb15abbc98f9563834764669dd586b215f5f282b9862009dccd61d4f SIZE (zig/translate-c-7a1a9fdc4ab00835748a6657ecbb835e3d5d45f7.tar.gz) = 146646 SHA256 (zig/zig-wayland-0.6.0.tar.gz) = 759a632e36a948e0e412d2d74a43a69d2f34e65d40289a16af7aa3725852ef25 SIZE (zig/zig-wayland-0.6.0.tar.gz) = 150022 SHA256 (zig/zig-wlroots-0.20.1.tar.gz) = d4f5d1628cd2a81ea897ea2638872064ab88007c5711a928e0b379c27043a175 SIZE (zig/zig-wlroots-0.20.1.tar.gz) = 64608 SHA256 (zig/zig-xkbcommon-0.3.0.tar.gz) = 3c56c41c4e84201ed8fd198900001cd8fc67887ba83c54b09e23b9de6bb2976f SIZE (zig/zig-xkbcommon-0.3.0.tar.gz) = 22512

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Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
river-classic
ABIaarch64amd64armv6armv7i386powerpcpowerpc64powerpc64le
FreeBSD:13:latest0.3.150.3.15---n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:13:quarterly0.3.150.3.15---n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:14:latest0.3.170.3.17------
FreeBSD:14:quarterly0.3.150.3.15------
FreeBSD:15:latest0.3.170.3.17n/a-n/an/a--
FreeBSD:15:quarterly0.3.150.3.15n/a-n/an/a--
FreeBSD:16:latest0.3.170.3.17n/a-n/an/a--
Dependencies
NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
Build dependencies:
  1. evdev-proto>0 : devel/evdev-proto
  2. wayland-protocols>0 : graphics/wayland-protocols
  3. scdoc : textproc/scdoc
  4. pkgconf>=1.3.0_1 : devel/pkgconf
  5. zig : lang/zig
  6. pixman-1.pc : x11/pixman
Runtime dependencies:
  1. pixman-1.pc : x11/pixman
Library dependencies:
  1. libevdev.so : devel/libevdev
  2. libwayland-server.so : graphics/wayland
  3. libwlroots-0.20.so : x11-toolkits/wlroots020
  4. libinput.so : x11/libinput
  5. libxkbcommon.so : x11/libxkbcommon
There are no ports dependent upon this port

Configuration Options:
===> The following configuration options are available for river-classic-0.3.17: MANPAGES=on: Build and/or install manual pages X11=on: X11 (graphics) support ===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
Options name:
x11-wm_river-classic
USES:
pkgconfig xorg zig
pkg-message:
For install:
x11-wm/river-classic is a maintained fork of river 0.3 intended for users that are happy with how river 0.3 works and do not wish to deal with the breaking changes planned for the river 0.4.0+. Please use x11-wm/river if you want to stay up-to-date with the latest improvements, as it tracks stable upstream releases for river 0.4.0+. For more info, see https://isaacfreund.com/blog/river-window-management/
Master Sites:
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  1. https://codeberg.org/river/river-classic/releases/download/v0.3.17/
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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
0.3.17
21 Aug 2026 08:24:37
commit hash: 7346801469aaf9b97d520714704b2f043b383acccommit hash: 7346801469aaf9b97d520714704b2f043b383acccommit hash: 7346801469aaf9b97d520714704b2f043b383acccommit hash: 7346801469aaf9b97d520714704b2f043b383acc files touched by this commit
Siva Mahadevan (siva) search for other commits by this committer
x11-wm/river-classic: update to 0.3.17
0.3.15
16 May 2026 17:30:48
commit hash: 2efcd4163530bfab721528386a209901c4b18049commit hash: 2efcd4163530bfab721528386a209901c4b18049commit hash: 2efcd4163530bfab721528386a209901c4b18049commit hash: 2efcd4163530bfab721528386a209901c4b18049 files touched by this commit
Kenneth Raplee (kenrap) search for other commits by this committer
x11-wm/river*: Change to zig015

Approved by:	blanket, just fix it
Approved by:	arrowd (co-mentor)
0.3.15
01 Apr 2026 15:21:36
commit hash: 1c027f94e55489b16f1950e7b8ec2677c917a0d6commit hash: 1c027f94e55489b16f1950e7b8ec2677c917a0d6commit hash: 1c027f94e55489b16f1950e7b8ec2677c917a0d6commit hash: 1c027f94e55489b16f1950e7b8ec2677c917a0d6 files touched by this commit
Siva Mahadevan (siva) search for other commits by this committer
x11-wm/river-classic: new port

Approved by:	lwhsu (mentor, implicitly)

Number of commits found: 3