freebsd-ports-dank

Welcome!

This fork of the FreeBSD Ports Collection merges the KDE and GNOME branches together with the upstream and adds more bleeding edge desktop-related patches.

Usage

• Make sure you have an up-to-date FreeBSD 12-CURRENT kernel and base
• Clone this repo into /usr/ports (if it's already managed by git, add this repo as a remote, fetch and checkout/merge)
• Build any ports you want :)

Current status

Graphics stack

• graphics/drm-next-kmod: hack workaround patch for ioctl auth issues kms-drm#33
• graphics/mesa-dev: alternative mesa port! Development version (little fork with my BSD patches), everything built together, using Meson! Always includes GL, GLES, Vulkan (RADV, ANV), Gallium Nine, OpenCL (Clover), VAAPI, VDPAU.
  • to install and keep pkg happy without rebuilding everything, just pkg add -f over existing mesa-libs/dri
• graphics/mesa-dri and graphics/mesa-libs:
  • enabled VK_KHR_wayland_surface 221540
• graphics/vulkan-loader devel/vulkan-headers devel/vulkan-validation-layers devel/vulkan-tools: 222175

NOTE: ANV (Intel Vulkan) requires running the apps as root and might not work for complex applications. RADV (Radeon Vulkan) with the amdgpu KMS/DRM driver works very well! Tested on an AMD Polaris (RX 480) GPU.

Desktop stack

• graphics/wayland-protocols: 1.13, required by weston git 226408
• graphics/wayland: 1.15 227423
• devel/sdl20: Wayland and udev options added 223018
• devel/libevdev / devel/evdev-proto / devel/py-evdev: 1.5.9 and stuff 217248
• devel/libepoll-shim: update version 223530
• x11/libinput: 222905
  • update to 1.10.4
  • fix touchpad dropping out
  • fix device rejection when running without /dev/input access
• x11-servers/xorg-server:
  • add UDEV option to support evdev devices autodetection 222609
  • fix terminal handling without 'keyboard' driver 220562
• x11-toolkits/efl: 1.20.7 and Wayland support 226220

Weston

A port for Weston is developed in D10599, but I use Weston directly from my fork. It has a bit of extra crap beyond FreeBSD support (fractional HiDPI scaling, experimental bugfixes, static linking support for the Rust bindings that are the basis of a future desktop environment), and it's master, not a release.

How to use Weston:

• Install Mesa with full Wayland support (WAYLAND option, or mesa-dev from here)
• Install wayland-protocols and wayland (newest, i.e. from here)
• Install libinput from here (because it has a permission fix so you don't have to give yourself access to /dev/tty*, /dev/input/*, /dev/dri/*, /dev/drm/*)
• Install Weston from my fork
• Add yourself to the weston-launch group
• Make sure the weston-launch binary is suid and owned by root
• Make sure you have an XDG_RUNTIME_DIR in the environment
• Put your favorite keyboard settings into the environment e.g. export XKB_DEFAULT_LAYOUT=us XKB_DEFAULT_VARIANT=colemak XKB_DEFAULT_MODEL=pc101 XKB_DEFAULT_RULES=evdev XKB_DEFAULT_OPTIONS="ctrl:nocaps,ctrl:lctrl_meta,compose:ralt,grp:alt_space_toggle"
• Run weston-launch!

Games

• games/cataclysm-dda: update to git master and fix everything 226418
• games/vkquake: a Vulkan-powered Quake engine 222182
• emulators/dolphin-emu: Dolphin Emulator (GameCube/Wii) updated to a recent git revision (Vulkan just works, dynamically loaded)
• games/vcmi: open source reimplementation of Heroes of Might and Magic III! 221885
• games/freeminer: update, luajit 2.1 fix 226537
• games/minetest: luajit 2.1 fix, clang fixes 226541
• games/regoth: Gothic game engine reimplementation (NOTE: doesn't like mesa assertions which are ON in mesa-dev right now) 227844

Misc

• net/qt5-network: LibreSSL compat 228344
• emulators/yuzu: experimental Switch emulator 228487
• graphics/hdrmerge: HDR merge tool (git master qt5)
• graphics/shaderc: google's glslang-based thing, needed for vulkan support in mpv. Quite bad for packaging: #424 #381 #392
• multimedia/mpv: 0.28.2, vulkan
• x11-toolkits/gtk40: git master, vulkan, skip installing gschemas (fix parallel install w/ gtk3)
• multimedia/shotcut: 18.03.06
• emulators/mesen: a NES emulator 227351
• games/retroarch: 1.7.3, add WAYLAND option 227345 (+ UDEV option but we don't have evdev gamepad drivers yet)
• textproc/ibus: add WAYLAND option (not actually used for toolkit based apps; also ibus's UI drawing is still X11 only)
• mail/geary: workaround for Vala/gee array null termination bug
• graphics/simple-scan: GNOME scanning app
• devel/libgusb: GObject libusb wrapper (w/ PR #10)
• graphics/colord: build vapi 227134
• editors/abiword: 3.0.2 220975
• sysutils/libcpuid: git master
• emulators/wine-devel: WoW64 D14721, gallium nine patch (needs d3dadapter in i386 too?)
• editors/gnome-latex: renamed from editors/latexila, updated to 3.28.0 226938
• cad/solvespace: git master (GTK3 HiDPI)
• math/nasc: dual pane text calculator similar to Soulver
• graphics/akira: VERY WIP (nothing works yet) UI design tool
• x11/kitty: GPU accelerated terminal emulator (note: terminfo)
• security/gonepass: 1Password vault reader 226706
• databases/sequeler: GTK3 SQL client
• databases/libgda5: unicode fix for build w/ new glib 226693
• net-im/fractal: GTK Matrix client 226683
• audio/sonata: update to git master (GTK3)
• audio/clementine-player: git qt5 branch
• audio/liblastfm: qt5 flavor for clementine D14667
• audio/libechonest: qt5 flavor for clementine 226529
• devel/geany: GTK3 226523
• devel/sdl20: 2.0.8 226409 (TEMPORARILY ROLLED BACK #4109)
• lang/luajit: update to 2.1.0-beta3 (works on arm64) 225342
• multimedia/gnome-twitch: Twitch livestream player 224980
• archivers/maxcso: ISO to CSO compressor for PSP/PS2 emulators 224638
• graphics/mypaint and graphics/libmypaint: git master version, works on Wayland natively
• graphics/gimp-app (& graphics/gegl3, x11/babl): git gtk3-port-meson version, works on Wayland natively (opening pngs seems to crash the plugin but selecting Proceed in console works and the file gets loaded o_0) (gimp plugin ports are probably screwed!)
• graphics/inkscape: git master version with GTK3, works on Wayland natively
• editors/libreoffice: GTK3 by default, works on Wayland natively
• www/firefox: (no extra updates here currently) See FirefoxSettings for, well, settings (force enable GPU acceleration!)
• java/jamvm: update to 2.0.0 192305
• audio/rhythmbox-plugin-{alternative-toolbar,coverart-browser,coverart-search-providers}: Some nice Rhythmbox plugins 223137
• deskutils/lookbook: icon browser 229873
• graphics/osg: update to 3.6 230442

Ports framework

• D13078 for gnome-twitch

Kernel patches

• 222375 linsysfs(5): Add support for recent libdrm LANDED!
• 222504 Add support for 32-bit compatibility IOCTLs in the LinuxKPI LANDED!
• 222646 ukbd(4): support Consumer Control based multimedia keys

Recommended kernel config

/usr/src/sys/amd64/conf/DESKTOP:

include GENERIC-NODEBUG
ident   DESKTOP
device		evdev
options		EVDEV_SUPPORT
options 	KDTRACE_HOOKS
options 	VIMAGE

(the important part is the EVDEV_SUPPORT, which is still disabled by default for some reason!)

Recommended /etc/make.conf

DEFAULT_VERSIONS+=ssl=libressl
CPUTYPE?=znver1 # Replace with your CPU
RUST_PORT=lang/rust-nightly

Other FreeBSD desktop resources

• kb/FreeBSDDesktop
• My dotfiles (mostly the x11 folder)
• A FreeBSD 11 Desktop How-to, not up to date with modern GPU stuff but very good for general desktop setup (printing, networking, etc.)
• FreeBSD on the ThinkPad X240, my post that's mostly updated but still contains old stuff

Other resources

• 1.5 Hour Spicy SUPER EUROBEAT Mix