lattera / activate-bsd

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.

Linux

Dependencies

This project depends on:

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

Building

make
./bin/activate-linux

Note that the executable is located in bin/

Installing

Arch Linux

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

Install/uninstall it using your favorite AUR helper.

OpenSUSE (Open Build Service)

This project is in the OBS under activate-linux.

Other

You can use make install to install to /usr/bin, and make uninstall to remove it

MacOS (Horrific)

Dependencies

Use MacPorts to install the following, then build normally.

• xorg-server
• cairo
• xorg-libXinerama

Building

make
./bin/activate-macos

Note that the executable is located in bin/

Wayland

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

Example: