gala/README.md

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:

• automake
• autopoint
• 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
• libgtk-3-dev (>= 3.4.0)
• libmutter-0-dev (>= 3.23.90) | libmutter-dev (>= 3.14.4)
• libplank-dev (>= 0.10.9)
• libtool
• libxml2-utils
• valac (>= 0.28.0)

Run autogen.sh to configure the build environment and then make to build

./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/
make

To install, use make install, then execute with gala --replace

sudo make install
gala --replace