The "Activate Windows" watermark ported to Linux with Xlib and cairo in C
"Science isn't about WHY. It's about WHY NOT. Why is so much of our science dangerous? Why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you on the butt on the way out, because you are fired." โ Cave Johnson (Portal 2)
Read ARGS.md for information about command line arguments.
make
Note that the executable's name depends on the target platform
This project depends on:
libcairo2-dev
libxi-dev
libx11-dev
x11proto-core-dev
x11proto-dev
libxt-dev
libxfixes-dev
libxinerama-dev
@eddelbuettel runs a PPA with activate linux in it, so it can be installed with
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:edd/misc
sudo apt update
sudo apt install activate-linux
This project is in the AUR under activate-linux-git.
Install/uninstall it using your favorite AUR helper.
This repository is a flake. Run it using nix run "github:MrGlockenspiel/activate-linux"
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You can use make install
to install and make uninstall
to remove it.
Use MacPorts to install the following, then build normally.
xorg-server
cairo
xorg-libXinerama
Alternatively, you can use this project instead because it actually works properly
This works out of the box through XWayland, or alternatively you can use this port of the project by Kljunas2.