The kwindowsystem provides information about, and allows interaction with, the windowing system. It provides a high level API that is windowing system independent and has platform specific implementations.
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This package is extracted from the KF5 set of packages. If KDE Frameworks-5.106.0 is built, do NOT also build this package as presented here.
Download (HTTP): https://download.kde.org/stable/frameworks/5.106/kwindowsystem-5.106.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: a4982009669cedee946a5379fc1a4c30
Download size: 2.3 MB
Estimated disk space required: 68 MB
Estimated build time: 0.4 SBU
extra-cmake-modules-5.106.0, Xorg Libraries, and (Qt-5.15.10 or qt-alternate-5.15.10)
User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/kwindowsystem
Install kwindowsystem by running the following commands:
mkdir -v build &&
cd build &&
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
-DBUILD_TESTING=OFF \
-Wno-dev .. &&
make
This package does not come with a test suite.
Now, as the root user:
make install
Finally, remove some unneeded files as the root user:
rm -rf /usr/mkspecs