wm/herbstluftwm - The NetBSD Packages Collection

Manual tiling window manager for X11 using Xlib and Glib

herbstluftwm is a manual tiling window manager for X11 using Xlib and Glib.

Its main features can be described with:

  - The layout is based on splitting frames into subframes which can be
    split again or can be filled with windows (similar to i3 or musca)

  - Tags (or workspaces, or virtual desktops) can be added/removed at
    runtime.  Each tag contains an own layout

  - Exactly one tag is viewed on each monitor.  The tags are monitor
    independent (similar to xmonad)

  - It is configured at runtime via IPC calls from herbstclient.  So the
    configuration file is just a script which is run on startup.  (Similar
    to wmii or musca)

Build dependencies

pkgtools/x11-links x11/xorgproto textproc/asciidoc devel/glib2-tools lang/python311 pkgtools/mktools devel/cmake devel/pkgconf pkgtools/cwrappers

Runtime dependencies

shells/bash devel/glib2 x11/libXfixes fonts/Xft2 fonts/Xft2 x11/liboldXrandr x11/liboldXrandr devel/glib2 fonts/Xft2 x11/liboldXrandr

Binary packages

OSArchitectureVersion
NetBSD 10.0aarch64herbstluftwm-0.9.5nb3.tgz
NetBSD 10.0aarch64herbstluftwm-0.9.5nb1.tgz
NetBSD 10.0aarch64herbstluftwm-0.9.5nb2.tgz
NetBSD 10.0aarch64ebherbstluftwm-0.9.5nb2.tgz
NetBSD 10.0aarch64ebherbstluftwm-0.9.5nb3.tgz
NetBSD 10.0alphaherbstluftwm-0.9.5nb3.tgz
NetBSD 10.0earmv6hfherbstluftwm-0.9.5nb3.tgz
NetBSD 10.0earmv6hfherbstluftwm-0.9.5nb1.tgz
NetBSD 10.0earmv6hfherbstluftwm-0.9.5nb2.tgz
NetBSD 10.0earmv7hfherbstluftwm-0.9.5nb3.tgz
NetBSD 10.0earmv7hfherbstluftwm-0.9.5nb1.tgz
NetBSD 10.0earmv7hfherbstluftwm-0.9.5nb2.tgz
NetBSD 10.0i386herbstluftwm-0.9.5nb3.tgz
NetBSD 10.0i386herbstluftwm-0.9.5nb2.tgz
NetBSD 10.0powerpcherbstluftwm-0.9.5nb2.tgz
NetBSD 10.0sparcherbstluftwm-0.9.5nb3.tgz
NetBSD 10.0x86_64herbstluftwm-0.9.5nb3.tgz
NetBSD 10.0_BETAx86_64herbstluftwm-0.9.5nb2.tgz
NetBSD 8.0i386herbstluftwm-0.9.5nb2.tgz
NetBSD 8.0i386herbstluftwm-0.9.5nb1.tgz
NetBSD 8.0powerpcherbstluftwm-0.9.5nb1.tgz
NetBSD 8.0powerpcherbstluftwm-0.9.5nb2.tgz
NetBSD 8.0x86_64herbstluftwm-0.9.5nb2.tgz
NetBSD 8.0x86_64herbstluftwm-0.9.5nb1.tgz
NetBSD 9.0aarch64herbstluftwm-0.9.5nb3.tgz
NetBSD 9.0aarch64herbstluftwm-0.9.5nb1.tgz
NetBSD 9.0aarch64herbstluftwm-0.9.5nb2.tgz
NetBSD 9.0alphaherbstluftwm-0.9.5nb1.tgz
NetBSD 9.0alphaherbstluftwm-0.9.5nb3.tgz
NetBSD 9.0earmherbstluftwm-0.9.5nb1.tgz
NetBSD 9.0earmv6hfherbstluftwm-0.9.5nb3.tgz
NetBSD 9.0earmv6hfherbstluftwm-0.9.5nb1.tgz
NetBSD 9.0earmv6hfherbstluftwm-0.9.5nb2.tgz
NetBSD 9.0earmv7hfherbstluftwm-0.9.5nb3.tgz
NetBSD 9.0earmv7hfherbstluftwm-0.9.5nb1.tgz
NetBSD 9.0earmv7hfherbstluftwm-0.9.5nb2.tgz
NetBSD 9.0i386herbstluftwm-0.9.5nb2.tgz
NetBSD 9.0i386herbstluftwm-0.9.5nb3.tgz
NetBSD 9.0powerpcherbstluftwm-0.9.5nb2.tgz
NetBSD 9.0powerpcherbstluftwm-0.9.5nb1.tgz
NetBSD 9.0powerpcherbstluftwm-0.9.5nb1.tgz
NetBSD 9.0sparc64herbstluftwm-0.9.5nb1.tgz
NetBSD 9.0x86_64herbstluftwm-0.9.5nb3.tgz
NetBSD 9.0x86_64herbstluftwm-0.9.5nb2.tgz
NetBSD 9.3x86_64herbstluftwm-0.9.5nb1.tgz
NetBSD 9.3x86_64herbstluftwm-0.9.5nb3.tgz

Binary packages can be installed with the high-level tool pkgin (which can be installed with pkg_add) or pkg_add(1) (installed by default). The NetBSD packages collection is also designed to permit easy installation from source.

Available build options

(none)

Known vulnerabilities

The pkg_admin audit command locates any installed package which has been mentioned in security advisories as having vulnerabilities.

Please note the vulnerabilities database might not be fully accurate, and not every bug is exploitable with every configuration.


Problem reports, updates or suggestions for this package should be reported with send-pr.