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Asked: 2018-10-14 22:22:07 +0800 CST

Install xfwm4 4.13 on xubuntu 18.04

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As per title, I'd like to install the development version (4.13) of xfwm4 insfead of the regular 4.12 since I've found out that it now supports vsync and opengl and thus removes tearing completely (i.e. no more need for Compton). Unfortunately the only way to install it seems to be from source but, while that's not usually a problem, I've read somewhere (I can't find it anymore) that I'd have to remove xfwm4 4.12 to install 4.13, and that worried me a bit. Also I tried looking something up on askubuntu but only got this question, upgrade xfce4 applications to the latest versions , that doesn't solve my "problem".

So the question is: is there a step-by-step guide or ppa that can ease the installation process? I know that arch has xfwm4-git in the aur but I can't seem yo find anything similar for Ubuntu. Thank you in advance for any help.

software-installation xubuntu 18.04 xfwm4

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  1. Best Answer

    From Xubuntu's QA Experimental PPA

    As mentioned by DK Bose, xfwm4-4.13 is available in the Xubuntu Experimental Repository. This might not be the bleeding edge release but allows for an easier install

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xubuntu-dev/experimental
sudo apt-get update

    and install it

    sudo apt-get install xfwm4

    From Debian Experimental

    xfwm4-4.13 is available in the Debian Experimental Repository and is always the bleeding edge version that is installable from debian experimental. Note that this release might be unstable and possibly unusable. And since ubuntu uses the same packaging system (apt) as debian, one can add that to their sources and it would work.

    This is however not recommended as the precompiled packages present in experimental would cause conflicts with the current versions of the packages in the ubuntu repositories, hence it's best to use apt's build-from-source features to get only xfwm4 and it's dependencies

    To do this, open up your /etc/apt/sources.list and add this line

    deb-src http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ experimental main contrib non-free

    now on the terminal, run the following commands to add the keys necessary for apt to trust the repository

    gpg --keyserver pgpkeys.mit.edu --recv-key 8B48AD6246925553 7638D0442B90D010 04EE7237B7D453EC
gpg -a --export 8B48AD6246925553 7638D0442B90D010 04EE7237B7D453EC| sudo apt-key add -

    now run

    sudo apt-get update

    to build all the dependencies for xfwm4

    sudo apt-get build-dep xfwm4

    and then to install it

    sudo apt-get source --compile xfwm4
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