| Port details |
- xwaylandvideobridge Utility to allow streaming Wayland windows to X applications
- 0.5.0 x11
 =0      0.4.0_3Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch. - Maintainer: kde@FreeBSD.org
- Port Added: 2023-11-09 17:51:04
- Last Update: 2026-05-28 09:56:56
- Commit Hash: a3926b6
- Also Listed In: kde
- License: GPLv3+
- WWW:
- https://invent.kde.org/system/xwaylandvideobridge
- Description:
- By design, X11 applications can’t access window or screen contents for wayland
clients. This is fine in principle, but it breaks screen sharing in tools like
Discord, MS Teams, Skype, etc and more.
This tool allows us to share specific windows to X11 clients, but within the
control of the user at all times.
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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:
-
- xwaylandvideobridge>0:x11/xwaylandvideobridge
- To install the port:
- cd /usr/ports/x11/xwaylandvideobridge/ && make install clean
- To add the package, run one of these commands:
- pkg install x11/xwaylandvideobridge
- pkg install xwaylandvideobridge
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.- PKGNAME: xwaylandvideobridge
- Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
- distinfo:
- TIMESTAMP = 1779900440
SHA256 (xwaylandvideobridge-0.5.0.tar.xz) = f07ec942b17c2134b78af33b7aad9fae8d045c91aacae4b297c33106d2561379
SIZE (xwaylandvideobridge-0.5.0.tar.xz) = 37536
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:
-
- cmake : devel/cmake-core
- ninja : devel/ninja
- gettext-tools>=0.26 : devel/gettext-tools
- ECMConfig.cmake : devel/kf6-extra-cmake-modules
- x11.pc : x11/libX11
- xcb.pc : x11/libxcb
- lupdate : devel/qt6-tools
- Runtime dependencies:
-
- x11.pc : x11/libX11
- xcb.pc : x11/libxcb
- Library dependencies:
-
- libxkbcommon.so : x11/libxkbcommon
- libOpenGL.so : graphics/libglvnd
- libKF6CoreAddons.so : devel/kf6-kcoreaddons
- libKF6Crash.so : devel/kf6-kcrash
- libKF6I18n.so : devel/kf6-ki18n
- libKPipeWire.so : audio/plasma6-kpipewire
- libKF6StatusNotifierItem.so : deskutils/kf6-kstatusnotifieritem
- libKF6WindowSystem.so : x11/kf6-kwindowsystem
- libQt6Core.so : devel/qt6-base
- libQt6Qml.so : x11-toolkits/qt6-declarative
- There are no ports dependent upon this port
Configuration Options:- No options to configure
- Options name:
- x11_xwaylandvideobridge
- USES:
- cmake compiler:c++20-lang gettext-tools gl kde:6 qt:6 tar:xz xorg
- FreshPorts was unable to extract/find any pkg message
- 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 |
|---|
0.5.0
28 May 2026 09:56:56
 |
Max Brazhnikov (makc) |
x11/xwaylandvideobridge: Update to 0.5.0 |
0.4.0_3
28 May 2026 09:56:55
|
Max Brazhnikov (makc) |
x11/xwaylandvideobridge: Restore port |
0.4.0_3
31 Dec 2025 12:57:38
|
Rene Ladan (rene) |
x11/xwaylandvideobridge: Remove expired port
2025-12-31 x11/xwaylandvideobridge: Project has been discontinued |
0.4.0_3
19 Dec 2025 09:03:02
|
Jason E. Hale (jhale) |
*/*: Bump PORTREVISION for known Qt private API abusers
Qt 6.10.1 edition.
These ports are known to directly use or link to a library that uses the
Qt private API and must be rebuilt with every Qt update.
Qt *public* API/ABI compatability is excellent, so most consumers don't
need to necessarily be rebuilt between patch or even minor releases, but
use of the private API breaks this compatibility between even patch
releases and its use is highly discouraged.
This list [1] is based on histortical data. We don't have time to
revisit every port on the list with each Qt update, so if your port has
dropped Qt private headers and was bumped in error, please remove it
yourself if you have write access to the Wiki or alert someone on kde@.
[1] https://wiki.freebsd.org/KDE/Qt |
0.4.0_2
05 Dec 2025 01:03:35
|
Jason E. Hale (jhale) |
x11/xwaylandvideobridge: Mark for removal
This project has been discontinued and is no longer supported.
While here, squash stage-qa warnings and prepare for Qt 6.10. |
0.4.0_1
03 Feb 2025 17:02:42
|
Gleb Popov (arrowd)
Author: Tobias C. Berner |
KDE: It goes to 6!
This megacommit merges all the work from
https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports-kde/tree/kde-it_goes_to_6
Specifically:
- KDE Plasma 6 ports updated to 6.2.5
- KDE Applications ports updated to 24.12.0
- Development ports of KDE Applications removed
- A lot of various ports switched to Qt 6 by default
- Some KDE Frameworks 5 and Plasma 5 ports are adapted to be coinstallable
with their 6 counterparts
PR: 284351
Exp-run by: antoine
Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/pull/341
Co-authored-by: Max Brazhnikov <makc@FreeBSD.org>
Co-authored-by: Kenneth Raplee <kenrap@kennethraplee.com>
Co-authored-by: Jason E. Hale <jhale@FreeBSD.org>
Co-authored-by: Gleb Popov <arrowd@FreeBSD.org> |
0.4.0
20 Dec 2023 10:09:22
|
Tobias C. Berner (tcberner) |
x11/xwaylandvideobridge: update to 0.4.0
Announcement: https://jriddell.org/2023/12/18/xwayland-video-bridge-0-4/ |
0.3.0
09 Nov 2023 17:38:08
|
Tobias C. Berner (tcberner) |
x11/xwaylandvideobridge: new port
By design, X11 applications can’t access window or screen contents for wayland
clients. This is fine in principle, but it breaks screen sharing in tools like
Discord, MS Teams, Skype, etc and more.
This tool allows us to share specific windows to X11 clients, but within the
control of the user at all times. |
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