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The “Activate Windows” watermark ported to Linux

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Re: The “Activate Windows” watermark ported to Linux

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Post by UncleEntity »

londons_explore wrote: post #14

Xwayland has a lot of bugs with transparent always-on-top windows. You'll get weird stuff like the 'click''s that are supposed to go through it will in fact go through multiple windows down to the next xwayland app, bypassing whichever native gtk app they should have interacted with.

> Xwayland has a lot of bugs with transparent always-on-top windows.

Damnit, and here I was going to port Clippy to Linux. Found the sprite sheet and everything.

…actually, I was working on putting clippy in blender a long time ago but the way it does (did?) window animations meant the animations would only work while the mouse was actively over the subwindow and (IIRC) was moving.

Re: The “Activate Windows” watermark ported to Linux

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Post by _fat_santa »

sys_64738 wrote: post #22

Can I use Linux in this unactivated state like Windows 10 allows me to do indefinitely?

Payment of undying loyalty to Linus Torvalds is due within 30 days. Though you can extend this up to 180 days if you're a business user with other undying loyalties at this time.

Re: The “Activate Windows” watermark ported to Linux

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Post by hrrsn »

aliswe wrote: post #20
sysadm1n wrote: post #18

Funny I went to the `issues` page and someone is very upset about this: https://github.com/MrGlockenspiel/activate-linux/issues/7 > Ok guys, hear me out bcuz i am TRIGGERED!!! i was just minding my business in my redhat based arch linux distro and all of a sudden: AXTIVATE LINUX>??? on my screen!? what the crap??? so I went online to figure out how to frickin activate my linux and I COULD NOT FIND???????? what the he…

the wrestling part gave it away tbh.

"redhat based arch linux distro" didn't?

Re: The “Activate Windows” watermark ported to Linux

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

maxicarlos08 wrote: post #25

> MacOS (Horrific) Why not make it cross platform so it runs on Windows too?

The immediately pragmatic answer is that you probably can, but only by using a rootless X11 server (plus WSL or cygwin). It would probably be better to make something that use the local native graphical toolkit, really.

Re: The “Activate Windows” watermark ported to Linux

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Post by londons_explore »

UncleEntity wrote: post #21
londons_explore wrote: post #14

Xwayland has a lot of bugs with transparent always-on-top windows. You'll get weird stuff like the 'click''s that are supposed to go through it will in fact go through multiple windows down to the next xwayland app, bypassing whichever native gtk app they should have interacted with.

> Xwayland has a lot of bugs with transparent always-on-top windows. Damnit, and here I was going to port Clippy to Linux. Found the sprite sheet and everything. …actually, I was working on putting clippy in blender a long time ago but the way it does (did?) window animations meant the animations would only work while the mouse was actively over the subwindow and (IIRC) was moving.

That kind of stuff works fine in X.

It just doesn't work properly in Xwayland or native Wayland

Re: The “Activate Windows” watermark ported to Linux

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alexb_ wrote: post #7
alaricus wrote: post #3

I love everything about this, especially this quote in the readme: "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!"

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