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Port details

x11/xscreensaver 6.17

Save your screen while you entertain your cat

0
unaddressed
0
VuXML only
1
fixed
1
open problem reports

Port info

Maintainer
vsasjason@gmail.com
Packages
latest: 6.17
Upstream
up to date
Last update
to 6.17 · cf6116602f
Quarterly
2026Q4: 6.16
WWW
https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/
Links
cgit · VuXML · Report wrong data

Install

Package
# pkg install xscreensaver
installs 6.17 from latest; from quarterly (2026Q4) 6.16
Port
# cd /usr/ports/x11/xscreensaver && make install clean
# make -C /usr/ports/x11/xscreensaver config  # change options first
Size
72 MiB download · 121 MiB installed
Depends on
accessibility/at-spi2-core 2.60.4, devel/gettext-runtime 1.0_1, devel/glib20 2.88.3,2, graphics/cairo 1.18.2,3, graphics/gdk-pixbuf2 2.44.1, graphics/gle 3.1.0_10, graphics/jpeg-turbo 3.1.4.1, graphics/libGLU 9.0.3, graphics/libglvnd 1.7.0, graphics/netpbm 11.04.02_2, lang/perl5.42 5.42.3, print/freetype2 2.14.3, print/harfbuzz 14.6.0, security/unix-selfauth-helper 1.1_1, textproc/libxml2 2.15.4, www/p5-LWP-Protocol-https 6.17, www/p5-libwww 6.83, x11-fonts/fontconfig 2.18.3,1, x11-fonts/libXft 2.3.9, x11-toolkits/gtk30 3.24.52, x11-toolkits/libXmu 1.3.1,1, x11-toolkits/libXt 1.3.1,1, x11-toolkits/pango 1.57.1, x11/libICE 1.1.2,1, x11/libSM 1.2.6,1, x11/libX11 1.8.14,1, x11/libXext 1.3.7,1, x11/libXi 1.8.4,1, x11/libXinerama 1.1.6,1, x11/libXrandr 1.5.5, x11/libXrender 0.9.13, x11/libXxf86vm 1.1.7
License
MIT
Options
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Packages by version and architecture

latest

FreeBSD versionamd64aarch64i386
FreeBSD 166.176.16–
FreeBSD 156.176.17–
FreeBSD 146.176.166.17

quarterly (2026Q4)

FreeBSD versionamd64aarch64i386
FreeBSD 156.166.16–
FreeBSD 146.166.166.16

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 6.17.

Fixed (1)

Show 1 fixed
VuXML entries whose affected range the packaged version has left.

Problem reports (1) · open in Bugzilla, most recently changed first

PRSummaryStatusChanged
263778needs-patch needs-qa regression maintainer-feedback+ maintainer-feedback? x11/xscreensaver: Fails to run: glslideshow: undefined symbol "eg1GetPlatformDisplay" (missing --with-glx ?)Open2022-05-06

Commits (256)

Satoshi Asami (asami)
Sort this file once and for all so nobody needs to scramble it again.

(It took me a while to figure out that all that happened was addition
 of lmorph and bubble screensavers! ;)
21bfdeed5c
Peter Wemm (peter)
Hey guess what Satoshi? I nearly forgot the md5 file too... :-]
6bf55542b0
Peter Wemm (peter)
Update 1.25 -> 1.27 (file gone from master sites)
dcd3fb9f02
Satoshi Asami (asami)
Use MASTER_SITE_XCONTRIB.  Use MAN? macros.  CATEGORIES+= -> CATEGORIES.
83e5fd3ee1
Satoshi Asami (asami)
Shorten one-line comments.  Boy, I'm listed as MAINTAINERs in a lot of ports or what! ;>
14cd728249
Satoshi Asami (asami)
Version 1.25 of xscreensaver, this one works on screens with more than 8 planes too.
e55833f847
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