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.
makeNote that the executable's name depends on the target platform
This project depends on:
libcairo2-devlibxi-devlibx11-devx11proto-core-devx11proto-devlibxt-devlibxfixes-devlibxinerama-devlibxrandr-dev
Those packages may be installed (in Debain-based distros) like this:
sudo apt install libcairo2-dev libxi-dev libx11-dev x11proto-core-dev x11proto-dev libxt-dev libxfixes-dev libxinerama-dev libxrandr-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-linuxThis 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".
@Plexvola maintains an ebuild for activate-linux and can be installed with the following
eselect repository enable vaacus
emerge --sync vaacus
emerge -av activate-linuxYou can use make install to install and make uninstall to remove it.
Use MacPorts to install the following, then build normally.
xorg-servercairoxorg-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.
