macOS support

[ZtereoHYPE]

Since macs do not have that text by default, and i heavily miss it from my windows days (i have a bootcamp drive just to see the overlay!) it would be amazing for a macOS version to be made aswell. :)

[StereoMadnessss]

This is for linux, as such this does not work on MacOS. As I said, this is made for linux and not MacOS.

[MrGlockenspiel]

I would port it but i havent used a mac in years, much less owned one, and I know nothing about development on them, nor do I particularly want to

[MrGlockenspiel]

If someone does manage to make it cross platform feel free to submit a PR

[Snivine]

I'mma make it but for Windows

[Arkhtek]

Noooo dont port it to macos let them suffer

[MrGlockenspiel]

Probably compiles on MacOS now, but wont run because I need to strip out the code that makes it require 32 bit color support

[Devnol]

Can confirm, compiles and segfaults in macOS (libxfixes was also needed)

[Devnol]

Not really good at debugging but I tried running it inside lldb and the output was as follows:

(lldb) target create "bin/activate_macos"
run
Current executable set to '/Users/pakou/Documents/CS_Projects/activate-linux/bin/activate_macos' (x86_64).
(lldb) run
Process 84575 launched: '/Users/pakou/Documents/CS_Projects/activate-linux/bin/activate_macos' (x86_64)
Process 84575 stopped
* thread #1, queue = 'com.apple.main-thread', stop reason = EXC_BAD_ACCESS (code=1, address=0xe8)
    frame #0: 0x0000000100003a5a activate_macos`main + 42
activate_macos`main:
->  0x100003a5a <+42>: movq   0xe8(%rcx), %rax
    0x100003a61 <+49>: movslq 0xe0(%rcx), %rcx
    0x100003a68 <+56>: shlq   $0x7, %rcx
    0x100003a6c <+60>: movq   0x10(%rax,%rcx), %rax
Target 0: (activate_macos) stopped.

[MrGlockenspiel]

I put a workaround for the 32 bit color support a couple days ago, might make a VM and fix it on there sometime

[Ruby-Dragon]

not sure if installing from makefile is supported on Mac. I have never owned a mac so I really don't know, but that may be something to work on.

[Devnol]

Make install is basically just copying files to places so yeah it is supported as long as you have the right perms. Not sure how that would affect it though, since the output binary isn't installed anywhere

[Ruby-Dragon]

I know some people with macs and might be able to get them to test out this

[IAMACAR10]

i have a friend with a mac and i wanna look into testing this. also need to change the text to say 'activate macOS'

[Devnol]

It already does that, see here

[ZtereoHYPE]

I have already tested and everything works if not for transparency for lack of support of it in macOS's XQuartz and the fact that it does not stay on top of all windows for non standard implementation of X11.

[ZtereoHYPE]

This issue is left open only so people see that it doesn't work perfectly.

[Devnol]

wait how did you compile it?

[ghost]

I installed xorg-server, cairo and xorg-libXinerama with ports, restarted shell, changed flags to CFLAGS = -L/opt/local/lib -lX11 -lXfixes -lXinerama -lcairo -I/opt/local/include/cairo -I/opt/local/include, it compiles, but crashes with segfault when I run it.

I tried to debug it with gdb but it it says ?? instead of file names, so idk where it crashes.

If you can guide me how to debug it better, I can help. I haven't worked with c.

I'm not even sure how is xorg supposed to work on mac, do you need to run it somehow?

[Devnol]

Ok wtf it runs now. It used to not run at all after compiling (see above). However, for some reason it looks like this:

It also doesn't stay on top at all and it has an xquartz icon in the dock (would be better if it could run in the background and only be killable by terminal if possible)

[MrGlockenspiel]

Yeah these are all because of the non-standard X implementation on macOS and there's nothing I can really do

[MikeHingley22]

Yeah these are all because of the non-standard X implementation on macOS and there's nothing I can really do

could you copy the window pixels for that areas, and then use that as a bitmap to render the text onto (not an expert - just wondering if it is something possible)

[Ruby-Dragon]

That plus a gaussian blur is how windows does acrylic

[Naville]

It already does that, see here

@Devnol FYI it should be "System Preferences", just for the fully immersive experience.

[cake03]

no

[b3z]

Pls I need this so I can finally throw away my windows bootcamp partition.

[Naville]

Lakr233/ActivateMac FYI

[Mega-Touk]

Pls port it to Chromebook now

[Ruby-Dragon]

Chromebooks are linux. Just turn on linux mode and install

[MrGlockenspiel]

I would be interested so see how well it works on there
I'd assume flawlessly

[IAMACAR10]

yeah, chrome OS is pretty much just gentoo behind the scenes, so anything that works on gentoo (i believe) should work on chrome os. (also i didn't leave e-mail reply in this time 😎) Message ID: ***@***.***

[rollingmoai]

If this is going to be cross-platform, the repo should be renamed to something like activate-watermark. Windows support is now available so we are nearly there.

[Ruby-Dragon]

i mean, i guess, but Linux is still the best supported platform for this project

[MrGlockenspiel]

everything outside of linux is an afterthought, plus activate-linux just sounds better and is funnier