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Port details

sway i3-compatible Wayland compositor

1.11_1 x11-wm =7 1.11_1Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.

Maintainer: jbeich@FreeBSD.org

Port Added: 2019-01-06 13:28:39

Last Update: 2025-09-15 11:48:31

Commit Hash: 6cb13b9

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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.

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Manual pages:

pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist

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/usr/local/share/licenses/sway-1.11_1/catalog.mk
/usr/local/share/licenses/sway-1.11_1/LICENSE
/usr/local/share/licenses/sway-1.11_1/MIT
bin/sway
bin/swaybar
bin/swaymsg
bin/swaynag
@sample etc/sway/config.sample
share/man/man1/sway.1.gz
share/man/man1/swaymsg.1.gz
share/man/man1/swaynag.1.gz
share/man/man5/sway-bar.5.gz
share/man/man5/sway-input.5.gz
share/man/man5/sway-output.5.gz
share/man/man5/sway.5.gz
share/man/man5/swaynag.5.gz
share/man/man7/sway-ipc.7.gz
share/man/man7/swaybar-protocol.7.gz
share/backgrounds/sway/Sway_Wallpaper_Blue_1136x640.png
share/backgrounds/sway/Sway_Wallpaper_Blue_1136x640_Portrait.png
share/backgrounds/sway/Sway_Wallpaper_Blue_1366x768.png
share/backgrounds/sway/Sway_Wallpaper_Blue_1920x1080.png
share/backgrounds/sway/Sway_Wallpaper_Blue_2048x1536.png
share/backgrounds/sway/Sway_Wallpaper_Blue_2048x1536_Portrait.png
share/backgrounds/sway/Sway_Wallpaper_Blue_768x1024.png
share/backgrounds/sway/Sway_Wallpaper_Blue_768x1024_Portrait.png
share/bash-completion/completions/sway
share/bash-completion/completions/swaybar
share/bash-completion/completions/swaymsg
share/fish/vendor_completions.d/sway.fish
share/fish/vendor_completions.d/swaymsg.fish
share/fish/vendor_completions.d/swaynag.fish
share/wayland-sessions/sway.desktop
share/zsh/site-functions/_sway
share/zsh/site-functions/_swaymsg
@owner
@group
@mode

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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)

no SUBR information found for this port

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 = 1749416947 SHA256 (swaywm-sway-1.11_GH0.tar.gz) = 034ec4519326d6af5275814700dde46e852c5174614109affe4c86b2fbee062a SIZE (swaywm-sway-1.11_GH0.tar.gz) = 5583731

Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):

sway
ABI	aarch64	amd64	armv6	armv7	i386	powerpc	powerpc64	powerpc64le
FreeBSD:13:latest	1.11	1.11_1	1.5.1_1	1.11	1.11_1	-	-	-
FreeBSD:13:quarterly	1.11	1.11_1	-	1.11	1.11_1	-	1.8.1_2	1.8.1_2
FreeBSD:14:latest	1.11	1.11_1	-	1.11	1.11_1	1.8.1_1	-	1.8.1_1
FreeBSD:14:quarterly	1.11	1.11_1	-	1.11	1.11_1	-	1.8.1_2	1.8.1_2
FreeBSD:15:latest	1.11	1.11_1	n/a	1.11	n/a	-	1.8.1_3	-
FreeBSD:15:quarterly	-	-	n/a	-	n/a	-	-	-
FreeBSD:16:latest	-	-	n/a	-	n/a	-	-	-

Dependencies

NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.

Build dependencies:

evdev-proto>0 : devel/evdev-proto
wayland-protocols>=1.24 : graphics/wayland-protocols
scdoc>=1.9.2 : textproc/scdoc
meson : devel/meson
ninja : devel/ninja
pkgconf>=1.3.0_1 : devel/pkgconf
pixman-1.pc : x11/pixman
xcb.pc : x11/libxcb

Runtime dependencies:

swaybg : x11/swaybg
pixman-1.pc : x11/pixman
xcb.pc : x11/libxcb

Library dependencies:

libjson-c.so : devel/json-c
libevdev.so : devel/libevdev
libudev.so : devel/libudev-devd
libpcre2-8.so : devel/pcre2
libdrm.so : graphics/libdrm
libwayland-egl.so : graphics/wayland
libwlroots-0.19.so : x11-toolkits/wlroots019
libinput.so : x11/libinput
libxkbcommon.so : x11/libxkbcommon
libbasu.so : devel/basu
libxcb-icccm.so : x11/xcb-util-wm
libcairo.so : graphics/cairo
libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so : graphics/gdk-pixbuf2
libglib-2.0.so : devel/glib20
libintl.so : devel/gettext-runtime
libharfbuzz.so : print/harfbuzz
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-1.11_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 gnome meson pkgconfig xorg

pkg-message:

For install:: Notes: - sway(1) can use mac_priority(4) to avoid stutter during high load

Master Sites:

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https://codeload.github.com/swaywm/sway/tar.gz/1.11?dummy=/

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Notes from UPDATING

These upgrade notes are taken from /usr/ports/UPDATING

2021-09-12

Affects: x11-wm/cage, x11-wm/hikari, x11-wm/labwc, x11-wm/sway, x11-wm/wayfire

Author: jbeich@FreeBSD.org

Reason: 
  SUID option has been removed in favor of seatd-launch(1) which doesn't
  require special handling in every consumer and doesn't bypass group
  permissions. If you've already enabled seatd service or use consolekit2
  then nothing changes. Otherwise,

    $ sway
    00:00:00.001 [ERROR] [wlr] [libseat] [libseat/libseat.c:83] No backend was able to open a seat
    00:00:00.001 [ERROR] [wlr] [backend/session/session.c:84] Unable to create seat: Function not implemented
    00:00:00.001 [ERROR] [wlr] [backend/session/session.c:218] Failed to load session backend
    00:00:00.001 [ERROR] [wlr] [backend/backend.c:353] Failed to start a DRM session
    00:00:00.001 [ERROR] [sway/server.c:53] Unable to create backend

  can be fixed by

    $ ck-launch-session sway

  or

    $ seatd-launch sway

  or

    # sysrc seatd_enable=YES
    # service seatd start
    $ sway

  Replace "sway" with your compositor e.g., "cage", "hikari", "labwc", "wayfire".

Port Moves

port moved here from x11-wm/sway-devel on 2024-10-27
REASON: Out of date: use x11-wm/sway for now

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Commit	Credits	Log message
Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page)
1.0.r2 11 Feb 2019 23:44:13	jbeich	x11-wm/sway: update to 1.0.r2 Changes: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/releases/tag/1.0-rc2
1.0.r1 03 Feb 2019 15:00:06	jbeich	x11-wm/sway: update to 1.0.r1 Changes: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/releases/tag/1.0-rc1 Changes: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/compare/de76c4e0...1.0-rc1 Changes: https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/compare/28f11aec...0.3
1.0.b.2.304 01 Feb 2019 23:43:42	jbeich	x11-wm/sway: update to 1.0.b.2.304 Changes: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/compare/5cb3d476...de76c4e0 Changes: https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/compare/41af8d84...28f11aec
1.0.b.2.291 31 Jan 2019 15:57:47	jbeich	textproc/scdoc: update to 1.8.1 Changes: https://git.sr.ht/%7Esircmpwn/scdoc/refs/1.8.1
1.0.b.2.291 30 Jan 2019 17:18:00	jbeich	x11-wm/sway: update to 1.0.b.2.291 Changes: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/compare/606f6a37...5cb3d476 Changes: https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/compare/9fe8e379...41af8d84 Changes: https://github.com/swaywm/swaylock/compare/ecc8402...effdea5
1.0.b.2.287 29 Jan 2019 00:47:06	jbeich	x11-wm/sway: update to 1.0.b.2.282 Changes: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/compare/5f45a4bb...606f6a37 Changes: https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/compare/209210d3...9fe8e379 Changes: https://github.com/swaywm/swayidle/compare/f002a7a...d18c7cb Changes: https://github.com/swaywm/swaylock/compare/368f53e...ecc8402
1.0.b.2.274 26 Jan 2019 00:43:17	jbeich	x11-wm/sway: update to 1.0.b.2.274 Changes: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/compare/1a1133dc...5f45a4bb Changes: https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/compare/c41d0130...209210d3 Changes: https://github.com/swaywm/swaylock/compare/72d15f8...f002a7a Changes: https://github.com/swaywm/swaylock/compare/3d94a60...368f53e
1.0.b.2.270_1 24 Jan 2019 20:26:37	jbeich	x11-wm/sway: back out r490400 - Upstream doesn't want a terminal chooser - xkb_rules evdev breaks input on X11 sessions i.e., xf86-input-keyboard
1.0.b.2.270 24 Jan 2019 10:07:07	jbeich	x11-wm/sway: bump required wlroots version after r491073 ../sway/server.c:7:10: fatal error: 'wlr/backend/noop.h' file not found #include <wlr/backend/noop.h> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1.0.b.2.270 24 Jan 2019 00:14:46	jbeich	x11-wm/sway: update to 1.0.b.2.270 Changes: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/compare/410c9613...1a1133dc Changes: https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/compare/b619ab4d...c41d0130 Changes: https://github.com/swaywm/swaylock/compare/4e72a36...3d94a60
1.0.b.2.243 22 Jan 2019 00:42:14	jbeich	x11-wm/sway: update to 1.0.b.2.243 Changes: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/compare/1cce14e7...410c9613 Changes: https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/compare/5dde2e79...b619ab4d Changes: https://github.com/swaywm/swayidle/compare/c94949d...72d15f8 Changes: https://github.com/swaywm/swaylock/compare/52eeb9f...4e72a36
1.0.b.2.226 19 Jan 2019 00:32:43	jbeich	x11-wm/sway: update to 1.0.b.2.226 Changes: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/compare/70637b40...1cce14e7 Changes: https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/compare/10b1de6e...5dde2e79 Changes: https://github.com/swaywm/swayidle/compare/1.1...c94949d Changes: https://github.com/swaywm/swaylock/compare/1.2...52eeb9f
1.0.b.2.204 16 Jan 2019 19:17:40	jbeich	x11-wm/sway: update to 1.0.b.2.204 Changes: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/compare/2573606b...70637b40 Changes: https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/compare/10a2c4ed...10b1de6e
1.0.b.2.189_1 15 Jan 2019 20:42:13	jbeich	x11-wm/sway: improve default config - Don't hardcode urxvt - Make Windows key work
1.0.b.2.189 15 Jan 2019 18:06:50	jbeich	x11-wm/sway: explain why SUID is enabled Sway needs setuid bit on DRM when (e)logind isn't available. When running only on X11 setuid bit can be disabled.
1.0.b.2.189 15 Jan 2019 00:52:45	jbeich	x11-wm/sway: update to 1.0.b.2.189 The last beta is several months old, so use a snapshot to help users evaluate the current state. Changes: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/compare/1.0-beta.2...2573606b Changes: https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/compare/0.2...10a2c4ed
1.0.b.2 06 Jan 2019 13:28:25	jbeich	x11-wm/sway: add new port 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. https://swaywm.org/

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