This small program displays an "Activate elementary OS" prompt, similar to what Microsoft Windows (8 or later) displays in the lower right corner when you don't activate your Windows installation with a valid license.
This is a fork of MrGlockenspiel's "activate-linux" which is inspired by ENTMusic's "activate-arch" fork. I modified the displayed text (including the font), the build script and this exact README you're reading right now.
cairo (hard dependency), clang (required for compiling) and the Inter font package (required by cairo, otherwise it'll not display the activation prompt).
Mark the build script as executable (chmod +x build.sh) and run it (./build.sh).
It'll create a binary named activate-elementary which is already marked as executable.
Since it's already marked as executable, you just need to run it by typing ./activate-elementary into the terminal that currently is in the same directory as the binary (or run it using your file manager).
To run it from anywhere, you would need to copy the binary into your /usr/bin folder (sudo cp activate-elementary /usr/bin/.) and run it as if it were any other program.
- It might not run on elementary OS (the distro it's intended to run on). I haven't found a workaround yet. (please help me fix this issue since otherwise this fork would be completely unnecessary)