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x11-wm/picom 13

Lightweight X11 compositor

Port info

Maintainer
yukiteruamano@volfread.xyz
Packages
latest: 13
Upstream
up to date
Last update
to 13 · 166cb5a5a5
Quarterly
2026Q4: 13
Formerly
x11-wm/compton-yshui until 2019-11-18
WWW
https://github.com/yshui/picom
Links
cgit · VuXML

Install

Package
# pkg install picom
installs 13 from latest; from quarterly (2026Q4) 13
Port
# cd /usr/ports/x11-wm/picom && make install clean
# make -C /usr/ports/x11-wm/picom config  # change options first
Size
251 KiB download · 819 KiB installed
Depends on
devel/dbus 1.16.2_4,1, devel/desktop-file-utils 0.28, devel/libconfig 1.8.2, devel/libev 4.33_1,1, devel/pcre2 10.49, graphics/libepoxy 1.5.10, x11/libX11 1.8.14,1, x11/libXext 1.3.7,1, x11/libxcb 1.17.0, x11/pixman 0.46.4, x11/xcb-util 0.4.1,1, x11/xcb-util-image 0.4.1, x11/xcb-util-renderutil 0.3.10, x11/xprop 1.2.8, x11/xwininfo 1.1.7
License
MIT and MPL20
Options
5 of 5 on in the package: CONFIG DBUS DOCS OPENGL PCRE

Packages by version and architecture

latest

FreeBSD versionamd64aarch64i386
FreeBSD 161313–
FreeBSD 151313–
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quarterly (2026Q4)

FreeBSD versionamd64aarch64i386
FreeBSD 151313–
FreeBSD 14131313

version as in the ports tree (latest) or the most common one (quarterly) · different version · ✗ not built · – no packages for this platform. Package sets that have not been rebuilt for 60 days are left out.

Unaddressed and VuXML only (0)

No unaddressed CVE and nothing reported by pkg audit for the packaged version 13.

Fixed (0)

No VuXML entries for this package.

Problem reports (0) · open in Bugzilla, most recently changed first

None.

Commits (47)

Vladimir Druzenko (vvd) · 13
x11-wm/picom: Improve "disable git" patch

Make it ready for upstream:
https://github.com/yshui/picom/pull/1520

While here remove unnecessary GH_PROJECT - it have default value.

PR:		295255
Approved by:	José Maldonado <yukiteruamano@volfread.xyz> (maintainer, timeout 2 weeks)
Sponsored by:	UNIS Labs
MFH:		2026Q2
166cb5a5a5
Yusuf Yaman (nxjoseph) · 13
x11-wm/picom: Update 12.5 => 13

While here, remove deprecated DRM option.

Changelog:
https://github.com/yshui/picom/releases/tag/v13

PR:		295255
Reported by:	José Maldonado <yukiteruamano@volfread.xyz> (maintainer)
Approved by:	osa, vvd (Mentors, implicit)
MFH:		2026Q2
515d560673
Gleb Popov (arrowd) · 12.5_1
*: Bump revisions after dbus update

PR:		285253
Reported by:	Martin Birgmeier <d8zNeCFG@aon.at>
a347a92e6e
Robert Clausecker (fuz) · 12.5
x11-wm/picom: update to v12.5

** New in v12.4

* Improvements

Better workaround for a NVIDIA qurik, fix high CPU usage when screen is off (#1265)
Avoid using xrender convolution in all cases, should improve shadow performance for most users. (#1349)

* Bug fixes

Fix leak of saved window images.

* Build fixes

Fix build on arm32 (#1355)

** New in v12.5

* Bug fixes

Fix assertion failure when running with some window managers (e.g. qtile) and no window is focused (#1384)

PR:		282708
ce330f13df
Vladimir Druzenko (vvd) · 12.3
x11-wm/picom: Update 12.2 → 12.3

Changelog:
 Improvements
  - Extend workaround for missing hardware accelerated convolution to
    more drivers
 Bug fixes
  - Fix memory corruption that can happen when handling window property
    changes
  - Fix force-win-blend having no effect
  - Fix shadow being rendered incorrectly in xrender backend
https://github.com/yshui/picom/releases/tag/v12.3

PR:	282083
MFH:	2024Q4
f7461335b3
Vladimir Druzenko (vvd) · 12.2
x11-wm/picom: Update 12.1 → 12.2

Changelog:
https://github.com/yshui/picom/releases/tag/v12.2

Upstream fixed build and work on 32-bit systems - remove local patches.

PR:	282014
MFH:	2024Q4
11c31a3bd0
Jose Alonso Cardenas Marquez (acm) · 12.1_1
x11-wm/picom: fix compilation on 32-bit systems

- Bump PORTREVISION

PR:		281830
Reported by:	maintainer
7a3215f732
Zsolt Udvari (uzsolt) · 12.1
x11-wm/picom: Update to 12.1

Add patch for meson build, which disables git detection while building.
Submitter takes maintainership.
Pet portclippy, portlint, portfmt.

Changelog: https://github.com/yshui/picom/blob/next/CHANGELOG.md

PR:		281767
Approved by:	submitter is maintainer
0ce6146f9b
Jan Beich (jbeich) · 11.2
x11-wm/picom: drop maintainership
f8c56fac34
Jan Beich (jbeich) · 11.2
x11-wm/picom: update to 11.2

Changes:	https://github.com/yshui/picom/releases/v11.2
Reported by:	GitHub (watch releases)
52e26b406a
Jan Beich (jbeich) · 11.1_1
x11-wm/picom: suggest mac_priority(4) after b22b6eeffd22

FreeBSD lacks setcap(8) + CAP_SYS_NICE, so permissions to set realtime
priorities like SCHED_RR are group-wide and disabled by default.

$ picom --log-level info
[...]
[ 20/01/2024 19:37:18.928 set_rr_scheduling INFO ] Failed to set real-time scheduling priority to 0. Consider giving picom the CAP_SYS_NICE capability
[...]

https://github.com/yshui/picom/commit/7d9692360b2e
d0208b4558
Jan Beich (jbeich) · 11.1
x11-wm/picom: update to 11.1

Changes:	https://github.com/yshui/picom/releases/v11.1
Reported by:	GitHub (watch releases)
d0c8c72164
Jan Beich (jbeich) · 11
x11-wm/picom: update to 11

Changes:	https://github.com/yshui/picom/releases/v11
Reported by:	GitHub (watch releases)
331cea9ff7
Jan Beich (jbeich) · 11.r1
x11-wm/picom: update to 11.r1

Changes:	https://github.com/yshui/picom/releases/v11-rc1
Reported by:	GitHub (watch releases)
b68471cbdb
Muhammad Moinur Rahman (bofh) · 10.2_1
*/*: Sanitize MANPREFIX for meson ports

Approved by:	portmgr
9f8f710b3e
Jan Beich (jbeich) · 10.2
x11-wm/picom: update to 10.2

Changes:	https://github.com/yshui/picom/releases/v10.2
Reported by:	GitHub (watch releases)
6445c0963d
Jan Beich (jbeich) · 10.1
x11-wm/picom: update to 10.1

Changes:	https://github.com/yshui/picom/releases/v10.1
Reported by:	GitHub (watch releases)
13879d2886
Jan Beich (jbeich) · 10
x11-wm/picom: update to 10

Changes:	https://github.com/yshui/picom/releases/v10
Reported by:	GitHub (watch releases)
34bc38b40e
Jan Beich (jbeich) · 10.r2
x11-wm/picom: update to 10.r2

Changes:	https://github.com/yshui/picom/releases/v10-rc2
Reported by:	GitHub (watch releases)
fe108b84e6
Jan Beich (jbeich) · 10.r1
x11-wm/picom: update to 10.r1

Changes:	https://github.com/yshui/picom/releases/v10-rc1
Reported by:	GitHub (watch releases)
46ac1d4cb0
Jan Beich (jbeich) · 9.1_1
x11-wm/picom: respect PREFIX in manpage
e98158ac72
Stefan Eßer (se) · 9.1
Remove WWW entries moved into port Makefiles

Commit b7f05445c00f has added WWW entries to port Makefiles based on
WWW: lines in pkg-descr files.

This commit removes the WWW: lines of moved-over URLs from these
pkg-descr files.

Approved by:		portmgr (tcberner)
fb16dfecae
Stefan Eßer (se) · 9.1
Add WWW entries to port Makefiles

It has been common practice to have one or more URLs at the end of the
ports' pkg-descr files, one per line and prefixed with "WWW:". These
URLs should point at a project website or other relevant resources.

Access to these URLs required processing of the pkg-descr files, and
they have often become stale over time. If more than one such URL was
present in a pkg-descr file, only the first one was tarnsfered into
the port INDEX, but for many ports only the last line did contain the
port specific URL to further information.

There have been several proposals to make a project URL available as
a macro in the ports' Makefiles, over time.

This commit implements such a proposal and moves one of the WWW: entries
of each pkg-descr file into the respective port's Makefile. A heuristic
attempts to identify the most relevant URL in case there is more than
one WWW: entry in some pkg-descr file. URLs that are not moved into the
Makefile are prefixed with "See also:" instead of "WWW:" in the pkg-descr
files in order to preserve them.

There are 1256 ports that had no WWW: entries in pkg-descr files. These
ports will not be touched in this commit.

The portlint port has been adjusted to expect a WWW entry in each port
Makefile, and to flag any remaining "WWW:" lines in pkg-descr files as
deprecated.

Approved by:		portmgr (tcberner)
b7f05445c0
Jan Beich (jbeich) · 9.1
x11-wm/picom: update to v9.1

Changes:	https://github.com/yshui/picom/releases/v9.1
Reported by:	GitHub (watch releases)
1f95185708
Jan Beich (jbeich) · 9
x11-wm/picom: update to v9

Changes:	https://github.com/yshui/picom/releases/v9
Reported by:	GitHub (watch releases)
18c773d715
Jan Beich (jbeich) · 9.r1
x11-wm/picom: update to v9.r1

Changes:	https://github.com/yshui/picom/releases/v9-rc1
Reported by:	GitHub (watch releases)
8042a251f4
Jan Beich (jbeich) · 8.2_3
x11-wm/picom: convert pkg-plist to PLIST_FILES

Already used by DOCS option.
1f5a526fbc
Jan Beich (jbeich) · 8.2_3
x11-wm/picom: disable compton symlinks
fdf4519f1c
Marius Strobl (marius) · 8.2_2
devel/libconfig: update to 1.7.3

- Chase shared library bump across dependant ports.
- Fetch releases rather than tags from GitHub. [1]
- Properly depend on makeinfo, adding an INFO knob.
- Refresh pkg-descr and COMMENT accordingly.

PR:		261062
Reported by:	dizzy [1]
Approved by:	maintainer timeout
8c30deb681
Rene Ladan (rene) · 8.2_1
cleanup: drop support for EOL FreeBSD 11.X

Search criteria used:
- 11.4
- OSREL*
- OSVER*
- *_FreeBSD_11

Input from:
- adridg: devel/qca-legacy
- jbeich: _WITH_DPRINTF, _WITH_GETLINE, GNU bfd workarounds
- sunpoet: security/p5-*OpenSSL*

Reviewed by:	doceng, kde, multimedia, perl, python, ruby, rust
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D32008
Test Plan: make index
620968a43a
Kevin Bowling (kbowling) · 8.2_1
graphics/mesa-libs: Bump reverse deps for libglvnd

Per discussion with bapt on helping pkg handle the changing of these
deps and avoiding impossible upgrade senarios.

PR:		246767
Reviewed by:	manu, bapt
Approved by:	x11
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D30824
da3162c7c9
Mathieu Arnold (mat) · 8.2
One more small cleanup, forgotten yesterday. Reported by:	lwhsu
cf118ccf87
Mathieu Arnold (mat) · 8.2
Remove # $FreeBSD$ from Makefiles.
305f148f48
Jan Beich (jbeich) · 8.2
x11-wm/picom: update to v8.2

Changes:	https://github.com/yshui/picom/releases/v8.2
Reported by:	GitHub (watch releases)
MFH:		2020Q4 (bug fixes)
63a2150c5d
Jan Beich (jbeich) · 8.1
x11-wm/picom: update to v8.1

Changes:	https://github.com/yshui/picom/releases/v8.1
Reported by:	GitHub (watch releases)
MFH:		2020Q3 (bug fixes)
0917bf8d53
Jan Beich (jbeich) · 8
x11-wm/picom: document r536756 origin
35d2beca2c
Jan Beich (jbeich) · 8
x11-wm/picom: unbreak on DragonFly

src/meson.build:82:3: ERROR: Unknown statement.
a3fef7e296
Jan Beich (jbeich) · 8
x11-wm/picom: update to v8

Changes:	https://github.com/yshui/picom/compare/v8-rc2...v8
Changes:	https://github.com/yshui/picom/releases/v8
Reported by:	GitHub (watch releases)
e462c8cdca
Jan Beich (jbeich) · 8.r2
x11-wm/picom: update to v8.r2 (pre-release)

Changes:	https://github.com/yshui/picom/compare/v8-rc1...v8-rc2
Changes:	https://github.com/yshui/picom/releases/v8-rc2
Reported by:	GitHub (watch releases)
8afe35f2c2
Jan Beich (jbeich) · 8.r1
x11-wm/picom: update to v8.r1 (pre-release)

Changes:	https://github.com/yshui/picom/compare/v7.5...v8-rc1
Changes:	https://github.com/yshui/picom/releases/v8-rc1
Reported by:	GitHub (watch releases)
7933377c80
Jan Beich (jbeich) · 7.5
Simplify port-specific manpages location after r523104

Not all of my ports are covered because:
- USES=cmake requires patching devel/cmake to undo BSD-specific defaults
  (A good example why BSD quirks should stay in ports, not to be upstreamed)
- USES=meson and GNU_CONFIGURE require dropping --mandir argument
- ponscripter-sekai requires Templates/BSD.local.dist to NOT create PREFIX/man
acae7ed8a2
Jan Beich (jbeich) · 7.5
x11-wm/picom: unbreak on DragonFly

In file included from ../src/log.h:8,
                 from ../src/backend/gl/glx.h:18,
                 from ../src/common.h:42,
                 from ../src/c2.c:35:
../src/compiler.h:98:11: fatal error: threads.h: No such file or directory
 # include <threads.h>
           ^~~~~~~~~~~

Reported by:	DPorts
95aeedd13e
Jan Beich (jbeich) · 7.5
x11-wm/picom: update to 7.5

Changes:	https://github.com/yshui/picom/releases/tag/v7.5
Reported by:	GitHub (watch releases)
e32aac7ed2
Jan Beich (jbeich) · 7.4 · as x11-wm/compton-yshui
x11-wm/compton-yshui: unbreak build with GCC

In file included from ../subprojects/test.h/test.h:14,
                 from ../src/string_utils.c:6:
/usr/include/sys/sysctl.h:1101:25: error: unknown type name 'u_int'; did you mean 'int'?
 1101 | int sysctl(const int *, u_int, void *, size_t *, const void *, size_t);
      |                         ^~~~~
      |                         int

PR:		241724
Submitted by:	pkubaj
Obtained from:	upstream
0cb0377bbb
Niclas Zeising (zeising) · 7.4 · as x11-wm/compton-yshui
Add USES=xorg USES=gl, ports categories x

Add USES=xorg and USES=gl to ports in categories starting with 'x'
While here, try to sprinkle other USES (mostly gnome and sdl) as needed.
4c46ca73d8
Jan Beich (jbeich) · 7.4 · as x11-wm/compton-yshui
x11-wm/compton-yshui: unbreak fetch

Looks like directory name has already changed within the distfile.

=> yshui-compton-v7.4_GH0.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /portdistfiles/.
=> Attempting to fetch https://codeload.github.com/yshui/compton/tar.gz/v7.4?dummy=/yshui-compton-v7.4_GH0.tar.gz
fetch: https://codeload.github.com/yshui/compton/tar.gz/v7.4?dummy=/yshui-compton-v7.4_GH0.tar.gz: size unknown
fetch: https://codeload.github.com/yshui/compton/tar.gz/v7.4?dummy=/yshui-compton-v7.4_GH0.tar.gz: size of remote file is not known
yshui-compton-v7.4_GH0.tar.gz                          213 kB 4215 kBps    00s
=> Fetched file size mismatch (expected 218899, actual 218898)
=> Trying next site
=> Attempting to fetch http://distcache.FreeBSD.org/ports-distfiles/yshui-compton-v7.4_GH0.tar.gz
fetch: http://distcache.FreeBSD.org/ports-distfiles/yshui-compton-v7.4_GH0.tar.gz: Not Found
=> Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this
=> port manually into /portdistfiles/ and try again.
*** Error code 1

Reported by:	pkg-fallout
907b015da3
Jan Beich (jbeich) · 7.4 · as x11-wm/compton-yshui
x11-wm/compton-yshui: add new port

Actively maintained fork of Compton (X11 compositor). Will be renamed
to Picom during the next update.

PR:             241216
Tested by:      jsm, q5sys
Reviewed by:    danfe (previous version)
836865a044