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The "Activate Windows" watermark ported to Linux

activate-linux

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." — Cave Johnson (Portal 2)

Read ARGS.md for information about command line arguments.

Building

make

Note that the executable's name depends on the target platform

Linux

Dependencies

This project depends on:

• libcairo2-dev
• libxi-dev
• libx11-dev
• x11proto-core-dev
• x11proto-dev
• libxt-dev
• libxfixes-dev
• libxinerama-dev

Installing

Ubuntu

@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

Arch Linux

This project is in the AUR under activate-linux-git.

Install/uninstall it using your favorite AUR helper.

Nix (NixOS)

This repository is a flake. Run it using nix run "github:MrGlockenspiel/activate-linux".

Other

You can use make install to install and make uninstall to remove it.

MacOS (Horrific)

Dependencies

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

Wayland

This works out of the box through XWayland, or alternatively you can use this port of the project by Kljunas2.

Example: