Posts related to my work on Ubuntu desktop from when I was working for Canonical.
Compiz, Nux and Unity 7, the 3 main programs of the official Ubuntu Desktop Environment are written in C++. Their source code is stored in bazaar (bzr) repositories on Launchpad (http://launchpad.net). Nux uses an autotools based build system, whereas Unity and Compiz use cmake.
Continue reading Compiz Introduction and Demo Part 3/5: Development, Tools and Support
Some well known compiz plugins:
This is a short description of the current (Unity 7) Ubuntu Desktop structure.
To begin with, the Ubuntu desktop consists of three main programs (nux, compiz and unity) that interact with a fourth one: the well known X server.
Continue reading Compiz Introduction and Demo Part 1/5: The Ubuntu Desktop
This is one of my rare posts about work. After several weeks of fixes the basic Compiz plugins work again with Unity 7.
Unity runs inside xfce4 using Xephyr. Continue reading Nested Ubuntu Unity with Xephyr
Yesterday, I tried to turn on my Ubuntu Google Nexus phone and it was pretty dead… I couldn’t turn it on or charge it. I finally fixed it by following these steps:
Continue reading Unbrick dead Google Nexus Galaxy – Install Ubuntu
libgliar — a library that lies to the OpenGL programs about the OpenGL context info (for Linux only). Code: bzr branch lp:libgliar
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bzr branch lp:nux cd nux ./autogen.sh --prefix= <@arguments> |
Arguments can be:
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--enable-x-support whether to have x_support (default=YES) --enable-opengles-20 whether to use opengles (default=NO) --enable-minimal-build whether to enable minimal builds (default=NO) --disable-gestures whether to disable multitouch gestures (auto) --enable-tests whether to enable tests (default=YES) --enable-documentation whether to enable documentation (default=NO) --enable-maintainer-mode whether to use strict compiler flags (default=NO) --enable-debug whether to enable nux debugging (default=NO) --enable-examples whether to enable building of examples (default=YES) --enable-gputests whether to enable building of gputests (default=YES) |
Example usage:
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export PREFIX=/home/user/staging/install/nux ./autogen.sh --prefix=$PREFIX --enable-debug |
(or ./configure if you have already ran autogen)
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make make install |
you can find your nux installation files in /home/user/staging/install/nux ($PREFIX)
Now, if you want to test nux:
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bzr branch lp:nuxplayground export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/lib/pkgconfig cd nuxplayground ./autogen.sh --prefix= --enable-debug make && make install |
and then you can run any nuxplayground example from /bin/ *