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.

This project depends on:

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

make
./bin/activate-linux

Note that the executable is located in bin/

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

Install/uninstall it using your favorite AUR helper.

This project is in the OBS under activate-linux.

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

Use MacPorts to install the following

• xorg-server
• cairo
• xorg-libXinerama

Or on HomeBrew

• libx11
• cairo
• libxinerama

Then build normally.

make
./bin/activate-macos

Note that the executable is located in bin/

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