Compiz on Debian Unstable: Difference between revisions
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| (2 intermediate revisions by the same user not shown) | |||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
[File:Compiz-debian-unstable.png|thumb|The compiz cube (+ reflection and deformation) on Debian Unstable. | [[File:Compiz-debian-unstable.png|thumb|The compiz cube (+ reflection and deformation) on Debian Unstable.]] | ||
Debian dropped the [https://wiki.debian.org/Compiz Compiz] window manager in the 7.x "wheezy" release. Compiz 8.x is distributed for Debian Jessie by [http://compiz-debian.tuxfamily.org/ tuxfamily.org], based on the [https://github.com/compiz-reloaded compiz-reloaded] releases. As of October 2016, these source packages can be easily patched, built, and run on [[Debian Unstable]]. Compiz 9 seems closely tied to Ubuntu, and I have never successfully run it on Debian. | Debian dropped the [https://wiki.debian.org/Compiz Compiz] window manager in the 7.x "wheezy" release. Compiz 8.x is distributed for Debian Jessie by [http://compiz-debian.tuxfamily.org/ tuxfamily.org], based on the [https://github.com/compiz-reloaded compiz-reloaded] releases. As of October 2016, these source packages can be easily patched, built, and run on [[Debian Unstable]]. Compiz 9 seems closely tied to Ubuntu, and I have never successfully run it on Debian. | ||
| Line 23: | Line 23: | ||
Acquire the source package mate-desktop, and amend it to build against GTK2. | Acquire the source package mate-desktop, and amend it to build against GTK2. | ||
Here's a [https://nick-black.com/compiz-unstable/mate-desktop-1.16. | Here's a [https://nick-black.com/compiz-unstable/mate-desktop-1.16.1.diff diff] against 1.16.1. | ||
==Build compiz== | ==Build compiz== | ||