diff --git a/x11/xev/Makefile b/x11/xev/Makefile
index 40ae7736a13e..38f3a339cbd6 100644
--- a/x11/xev/Makefile
+++ b/x11/xev/Makefile
@@ -1,17 +1,17 @@
 PORTNAME=	xev
-PORTVERSION=	1.2.6
+DISTVERSION=	1.2.7
 CATEGORIES=	x11
 
 MAINTAINER=	x11@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Print contents of X events
+WWW=		https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xev
 
 LICENSE=	MIT
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/COPYING
 
 USES=		tar:xz xorg xorg-cat:app
-USE_XORG=	x11 xrandr
+USE_XORG=	x11 xorgproto xrandr
 
 PLIST_FILES=	bin/xev share/man/man1/xev.1.gz
-GNU_CONFIGURE_MANPREFIX=	${PREFIX}/share
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/x11/xev/distinfo b/x11/xev/distinfo
index aa39db057301..4e11c9c0ab61 100644
--- a/x11/xev/distinfo
+++ b/x11/xev/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1709537565
-SHA256 (xorg/app/xev-1.2.6.tar.xz) = 61e1c5e008ac9973aca7cdddf36e9df7410e77083b030eb04f4dc737c51807d7
-SIZE (xorg/app/xev-1.2.6.tar.xz) = 129724
+TIMESTAMP = 1779175876
+SHA256 (xorg/app/xev-1.2.7.tar.xz) = 95167895924de58e34b1013b2b0c8476e90d0888c6c39e7ae9bc35e3a19dba04
+SIZE (xorg/app/xev-1.2.7.tar.xz) = 136784
diff --git a/x11/xev/pkg-descr b/x11/xev/pkg-descr
index ab0c0cbe84f6..f8d35120ee81 100644
--- a/x11/xev/pkg-descr
+++ b/x11/xev/pkg-descr
@@ -1 +1,7 @@
-This package contains xev, which is a application that monitors X events.
+Xev creates a window and then asks the X server to send it events
+whenever anything happens to the window (such as it being moved,
+resized, typed in, clicked in, etc.). You can also attach it to an
+existing window. It is useful for seeing what causes events to occur and
+to display the information that they contain; it is essentially a
+debugging and development tool, and should not be needed in normal
+usage.