lizainslie/activate-linux

The "Activate Windows" watermark ported to Linux

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." — 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
• libxrandr-dev
• libwayland-dev

Those packages may be installed (in Debian-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 libwayland-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".

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

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

Example: