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Port details on branch 2026Q2
screen-message Very simple tool to display some text as large as possible
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Maintainer: alven@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2026-04-17 09:30:04
Last Update: 2026-04-17 09:27:12
Commit Hash: d0b12b6
License: GPLv2+
WWW:
https://sm.nomeata.de/
https://github.com/nomeata/screen-message/
Description:
If you just want to disply a word or a short, possilby multi-line, text as large and as quickly as possible on your screen, then screen-message is the right tool for you.
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Manual pages:
pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
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  1. bin/sm
  2. share/applications/sm.desktop
  3. share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/sm.png
  4. share/man/man1/sm.1.gz
  5. /usr/local/share/licenses/screen-message-0.29_1/catalog.mk
  6. /usr/local/share/licenses/screen-message-0.29_1/LICENSE
  7. /usr/local/share/licenses/screen-message-0.29_1/GPLv2+
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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
  • no SUBR information found for this port
Dependency lines:
  • screen-message>0:x11/screen-message
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/x11/screen-message/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install x11/screen-message
  • pkg install screen-message
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: screen-message
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1776417298 SHA256 (nomeata-screen-message-0.29_GH0.tar.gz) = 27c7409336a65af3b4ef8a0e8c76a0c9ee9b0db8b5fe6b6e0dfb9d28700c5079 SIZE (nomeata-screen-message-0.29_GH0.tar.gz) = 264896

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Dependencies
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Build dependencies:
  1. update-desktop-database : devel/desktop-file-utils
  2. gettext-runtime>=0.26 : devel/gettext-runtime
  3. gmake>=4.4.1 : devel/gmake
  4. pkgconf>=1.3.0_1 : devel/pkgconf
  5. autoconf>=2.73 : devel/autoconf
  6. automake>=1.18.1 : devel/automake
Runtime dependencies:
  1. update-desktop-database : devel/desktop-file-utils
Library dependencies:
  1. libintl.so : devel/gettext-runtime
  2. libatk-1.0.so : accessibility/at-spi2-core
  3. libcairo.so : graphics/cairo
  4. libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so : graphics/gdk-pixbuf2
  5. libglib-2.0.so : devel/glib20
  6. libintl.so : devel/gettext-runtime
  7. libgtk-3.so : x11-toolkits/gtk30
  8. libharfbuzz.so : print/harfbuzz
  9. libpango-1.0.so : x11-toolkits/pango
There are no ports dependent upon this port

Configuration Options:
No options to configure
Options name:
x11_screen-message
USES:
autoreconf desktop-file-utils gettext-runtime gmake gnome pkgconfig
FreshPorts was unable to extract/find any pkg message
Master Sites:
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  1. https://codeload.github.com/nomeata/screen-message/tar.gz/0.29?dummy=/
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Number of commits found: 1

Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page)
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0.29_1
17 Apr 2026 09:27:12
commit hash: d0b12b66129fddf7c544dae5c507b9151609d166commit hash: d0b12b66129fddf7c544dae5c507b9151609d166commit hash: d0b12b66129fddf7c544dae5c507b9151609d166commit hash: d0b12b66129fddf7c544dae5c507b9151609d166 files touched by this commit
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x11/screen-message: Take maintainership

* Add WWW for source code repository.

PR:		294564
Approved by:	db@, yuri@ (Mentors, implicit)
MFH:	 	2026Q2

(cherry picked from commit 9571c4440cb01145961012de038da76eaa6b85a0)

Number of commits found: 1