Gala Window Manager for elementary OS and Pantheon
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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
  • libcanberra-dev
  • libcanberra-gtk3-dev
  • libclutter-1.0-dev (>= 1.12.0)
  • libgee-0.8-dev
  • libgexiv2-dev
  • libglib2.0-dev (>= 2.44)
  • libgnome-desktop-3-dev
  • libgranite-dev (>= 5.4.0)
  • libgtk-3-dev (>= 3.10.0)
  • libmutter-6-dev (>= 3.35.1) | libmutter-dev (>= 3.18.3)
  • libplank-dev (>= 0.11.0)
  • 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