activate-linux
The "Activate Windows" watermark ported to Linux with 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." β Cave Johnson (Portal 2)
Read ARGS.md for information about command line arguments.
Building
Note that the executable's name depends on the target platform.
You can use make install
to install and make uninstall
to remove it.
*nix:
make
MSYS2):
Windows (usingReplace gcc
with clang
, if you want. But then don't forget to start proper shortcut MSYS2 CLANG64
.
pacman -S --noconfirm git make pkgconf pactoys
pacboy -S --noconfirm gcc:p
git clone https://github.com/MrGlockenspiel/activate-linux
cd activate-linux
export backends=gdi
make
Linux
Dependencies
This project depends on:
libcairo2-dev
libxi-dev
libx11-dev
x11proto-core-dev
x11proto-dev
libxt-dev
libxext-dev
libxfixes-dev
libxinerama-dev
libxrandr-dev
libwayland-dev
wayland-protocols
Optional dependencies:
Those packages may be installed (in Debian-based distros) like this:
sudo apt install libconfig-dev libcairo2-dev libxi-dev libx11-dev x11proto-core-dev x11proto-dev \
libxt-dev libxext-dev libxfixes-dev libxinerama-dev libxrandr-dev libwayland-dev wayland-protocols
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"
.
Gentoo
@Plexvola maintains an ebuild for activate-linux and can be installed with the following
eselect repository enable vaacus
emerge --sync vaacus
emerge -av activate-linux
openSUSE / SLE
The package is built for various releases on OBS.
Installation instructions for your specific distribution are available here: https://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home%3Atschmitz%3Aactivate-linux&package=activate-linux
Here are the Tumbleweed instructions:
zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:tschmitz:activate-linux/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/home:tschmitz:activate-linux.repo
zypper refresh
zypper install activate-linux
Fedora
The package is built for various releases on OBS.
Installation instructions for your specific distribution are available here: https://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home%3Atschmitz%3Aactivate-linux&package=activate-linux
Here are the Fedora Rawhide instructions:
dnf config-manager --add-repo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:tschmitz:activate-linux/Fedora_Rawhide/home:tschmitz:activate-linux.repo
dnf install activate-linux
Windows
Scoop
You can install it on the Extras bucket:
scoop bucket add extras # Ensure bucket is added first
scoop install activate-linux
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.