# Gala
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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:
* meson
* gettext (>= 0.19.6)
* gnome-settings-daemon-dev (>= 3.15.2),
* gsettings-desktop-schemas-dev
* libbamf3-dev
* libcanberra-dev
* libcanberra-gtk3-dev
* libclutter-1.0-dev (>= 1.12.0)
* libgee-0.8-dev
* libglib2.0-dev (>= 2.44)
* libgnome-desktop-3-dev
* libgranite-dev (>= 5.3.0)
* libgtk-3-dev (>= 3.4.0)
* libmutter-0-dev (>= 3.23.90) | libmutter-dev (>= 3.14.4)
* libplank-dev (>= 0.10.9)
* libxml2-utils
* valac (>= 0.28.0)

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