Gala
A window & compositing manager based on libmutter and designed by elementary for use with Pantheon.
Building, Testing, and Installation
You'll need the following dependencies:
- gettext (>= 0.19.6)
- gsettings-desktop-schemas-dev
- libclutter-1.0-dev (>= 1.12.0)
- libgee-0.8-dev
- libglib2.0-dev (>= 2.74)
- libgnome-desktop-4-dev
- libgnome-bg-4-dev
- libgranite-dev (>= 5.4.0)
- libgranite-7-dev
- libgtk-3-dev
- libgtk-4-dev
- libmutter-10-dev (>= 42.0) | libmutter-dev (>= 3.18.3)
- meson (>= 0.59.0)
- valac (>= 0.46.0)
Run meson build to configure the build environment. Change to the build directory and run ninja to build
meson build --prefix=/usr
cd build
ninja
You can set the documentation option to true to build the documentation. In the build directory, use meson configure
meson configure -Ddocumentation=true
To install, use ninja install, then execute with gala --replace
sudo ninja install
gala --replace