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Port details on branch 2025Q3
swayfx Sway, but with eye candy!
0.5.3_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 0.5.3_1Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.
Maintainer: jbeich@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2025-09-15 11:51:05
Last Update: 2025-09-15 11:50:09
Commit Hash: 747f2ea
Also Listed In: wayland
License: MIT
WWW:
https://github.com/WillPower3309/swayfx
Description:
Sway is an incredible window manager, and certainly one of the most well established wayland window managers. However, it is restricted to only include the functionality that existed in i3. This fork ditches the simple wlr_renderer, and replaces it with our fx_renderer, capable of rendering with fancy GLES2 effects. This, along with a couple of minor changes, expands sway's featureset to include the following: + Blur + Anti-aliased rounded corners, borders, and titlebars + Shadows + Dim unfocused windows + Per application saturation control: Allows the user to set the saturation (Digital Vibrance) for specific applications. Great for some FPS games! + Scratchpad treated as minimize: Allows docks, or panels with a taskbar, to correctly interpret minimize / unminimize requests
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/swayfx-0.5.3_1/catalog.mk
  2. /usr/local/share/licenses/swayfx-0.5.3_1/LICENSE
  3. /usr/local/share/licenses/swayfx-0.5.3_1/MIT
  4. bin/sway
  5. bin/swaybar
  6. bin/swaymsg
  7. bin/swaynag
  8. @sample etc/sway/config.sample
  9. share/man/man1/sway.1.gz
  10. share/man/man1/swaymsg.1.gz
  11. share/man/man1/swaynag.1.gz
  12. share/man/man5/sway-bar.5.gz
  13. share/man/man5/sway-input.5.gz
  14. share/man/man5/sway-output.5.gz
  15. share/man/man5/sway.5.gz
  16. share/man/man5/swaynag.5.gz
  17. share/man/man7/sway-ipc.7.gz
  18. share/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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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
  • no SUBR information found for this port
Dependency lines:
  • swayfx>0:x11-wm/swayfx
Conflicts:
CONFLICTS_INSTALL:
  • sway
  • sway-devel
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/x11-wm/swayfx/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install x11-wm/swayfx
  • pkg install swayfx
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: swayfx
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1751070411 SHA256 (WillPower3309-swayfx-0.5.3_GH0.tar.gz) = e6345e198f128520cf422b458ac8ad9759c3a6c8f633d7b722655309f8a14b9e SIZE (WillPower3309-swayfx-0.5.3_GH0.tar.gz) = 17597207

Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
swayfx
ABIaarch64amd64armv6armv7i386powerpcpowerpc64powerpc64le
FreeBSD:13:latest0.5.30.5.3_1-0.5.30.5.3_1---
FreeBSD:13:quarterly0.5.30.5.3_1-0.5.30.5.3_1-0.3.2_10.3.2_1
FreeBSD:14:latest0.5.30.5.3_1-0.5.30.5.3_10.3.1-0.3.1
FreeBSD:14:quarterly0.5.3--0.5.30.5.3_1-0.3.2_10.3.2_1
FreeBSD:15:latest0.5.30.5.3_1n/a0.5.3n/a-0.3.2_1-
FreeBSD:15:quarterly--n/a-n/a---
FreeBSD:16:latest-0.5.3n/a-n/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>=1.24 : graphics/wayland-protocols
  3. scdoc>=1.9.2 : textproc/scdoc
  4. meson : devel/meson
  5. ninja : devel/ninja
  6. pkgconf>=1.3.0_1 : devel/pkgconf
  7. pixman-1.pc : x11/pixman
  8. 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. libdrm.so : graphics/libdrm
  6. libwayland-egl.so : graphics/wayland
  7. libscenefx-0.4.so : x11-toolkits/scenefx04
  8. libwlroots-0.19.so : x11-toolkits/wlroots019
  9. libinput.so : x11/libinput
  10. libxkbcommon.so : x11/libxkbcommon
  11. libbasu.so : devel/basu
  12. libxcb-icccm.so : x11/xcb-util-wm
  13. libcairo.so : graphics/cairo
  14. libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so : graphics/gdk-pixbuf2
  15. libglib-2.0.so : devel/glib20
  16. libintl.so : devel/gettext-runtime
  17. libharfbuzz.so : print/harfbuzz
  18. libpango-1.0.so : x11-toolkits/pango
There are no ports dependent upon this port

Configuration Options:
===> The following configuration options are available for swayfx-0.5.3_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_swayfx
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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  1. https://codeload.github.com/WillPower3309/swayfx/tar.gz/0.5.3?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)
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0.5.3_1
15 Sep 2025 11:50:09
commit hash: 747f2eaa05d4883affce21253a2ac25fbb296407commit hash: 747f2eaa05d4883affce21253a2ac25fbb296407commit hash: 747f2eaa05d4883affce21253a2ac25fbb296407commit hash: 747f2eaa05d4883affce21253a2ac25fbb296407 files touched by this commit
Jan Beich (jbeich) search for other commits by this committer
x11-wm/sway: tabify patch to match existing style

(cherry picked from commit 6cb13b9258df45066de9ecc6f9bcdd8009f53301)
0.5.3_1
15 Sep 2025 11:50:08
commit hash: 2d6e34f9d399a8f54d148adcdcf5f26d19a47ff2commit hash: 2d6e34f9d399a8f54d148adcdcf5f26d19a47ff2commit hash: 2d6e34f9d399a8f54d148adcdcf5f26d19a47ff2commit hash: 2d6e34f9d399a8f54d148adcdcf5f26d19a47ff2 files touched by this commit
Jan Beich (jbeich) search for other commits by this committer
x11-wm/sway: unbreak config reload after bb43067a6928

Obtained from:	upstream

(cherry picked from commit fcab17cb653d35013194f69e9c97e906eb53a1ef)
0.5.3
15 Sep 2025 11:41:25
commit hash: a0f01076124541c2fef0ec7e21ca93baa3e0e232commit hash: a0f01076124541c2fef0ec7e21ca93baa3e0e232commit hash: a0f01076124541c2fef0ec7e21ca93baa3e0e232commit hash: a0f01076124541c2fef0ec7e21ca93baa3e0e232 files touched by this commit
Jan Beich (jbeich) search for other commits by this committer
x11-wm/sway: disable wordexp(3) workaround on -CURRENT

(cherry picked from commit 86349a45e9763cba310a33310e0585e15652e69b)

Number of commits found: 3