diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a43f1bfb..71fcee60 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -16,9 +16,8 @@ You need Meson and Ninja (as well as Rust and Cargo) to build Fractal.
 ### GNU/Linux
 
 ```
-./configure --prefix=/usr/local
-make
-sudo make install
+meson . _build --prefix=/usr/local
+ninja -C _build
 ```
 
 ### macOS
@@ -27,7 +26,7 @@ sudo make install
 brew install gtk3+ dbus bash
 # empirically needs 3.22.19 or later of gtk3+
 # ...and run configure as:
-/usr/local/bin/bash -c ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
+/usr/local/bin/bash -c meson . _build --prefix=/usr/local
 ```
 
 You may also need to comment out the `notification.show` block in
diff --git a/configure b/configure
deleted file mode 100755
index 6754d907..00000000
--- a/configure
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,182 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-# configure script adapter for Meson
-# Based on build-api: https://github.com/cgwalters/build-api
-# Copyright 2010, 2011, 2013 Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>
-# Copyright 2016, 2017 Emmanuele Bassi
-# Copyright 2017 Iñigo Martínez <inigomartinez@gmail.com>
-# Licensed under the new-BSD license (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php)
-
-# Build API variables:
-
-# Little helper function for reading args from the commandline.
-# it automatically handles -a b and -a=b variants, and returns 1 if
-# we need to shift $3.
-read_arg() {
-    # $1 = arg name
-    # $2 = arg value
-    # $3 = arg parameter
-    local rematch='^[^=]*=(.*)$'
-    if [[ $2 =~ $rematch ]]; then
-        read "$1" <<< "${BASH_REMATCH[1]}"
-    else
-        read "$1" <<< "$3"
-        # There is no way to shift our callers args, so
-        # return 1 to indicate they should do it instead.
-        return 1
-    fi
-}
-
-sanitycheck() {
-    # $1 = arg name
-    # $1 = arg command
-    # $2 = arg alternates
-    local cmd=$( which $2 2>/dev/null )
-
-    if [ -x "$cmd" ]; then
-        read "$1" <<< "$cmd"
-        return 0
-    fi
-
-    test -z $3 || {
-        for alt in $3; do
-            cmd=$( which $alt 2>/dev/null )
-
-            if [ -x "$cmd" ]; then
-                read "$1" <<< "$cmd"
-                return 0
-            fi
-        done
-    }
-
-    echo -e "\e[1;31mERROR\e[0m: Command '$2' not found"
-    exit 1
-}
-
-checkoption() {
-    # $1 = arg
-    option="${1#*--}"
-    action="${option%%-*}"
-    name="${option#*-}"
-    if [ ${default_options[$name]+_} ]; then
-        case "$action" in
-            enable) meson_options[$name]=true;;
-            disable) meson_options[$name]=false;;
-            *) echo -e "\e[1;33mINFO\e[0m: Ignoring unknown action '$action'";;
-        esac
-    else
-        echo -e "\e[1;33mINFO\e[0m: Ignoring unknown option '$option'"
-    fi
-}
-
-echooption() {
-    # $1 = option
-    if [ ${meson_options[$1]+_} ]; then
-        echo ${meson_options[$1]}
-    elif [ ${default_options[$1]+_} ]; then
-        echo ${default_options[$1]}
-    fi
-}
-
-sanitycheck MESON 'meson'
-sanitycheck MESONTEST 'mesontest'
-sanitycheck NINJA 'ninja' 'ninja-build'
-
-declare -A meson_options
-
-while (($# > 0)); do
-    case "${1%%=*}" in
-        --prefix) read_arg prefix "$@" || shift;;
-        --bindir) read_arg bindir "$@" || shift;;
-        --sbindir) read_arg sbindir "$@" || shift;;
-        --libexecdir) read_arg libexecdir "$@" || shift;;
-        --datarootdir) read_arg datarootdir "$@" || shift;;
-        --datadir) read_arg datadir "$@" || shift;;
-        --sysconfdir) read_arg sysconfdir "$@" || shift;;
-        --libdir) read_arg libdir "$@" || shift;;
-        --mandir) read_arg mandir "$@" || shift;;
-        --includedir) read_arg includedir "$@" || shift;;
-        *) checkoption $1;;
-    esac
-    shift
-done
-
-# Defaults
-test -z ${prefix} && prefix="/usr/local"
-test -z ${bindir} && bindir=${prefix}/bin
-test -z ${sbindir} && sbindir=${prefix}/sbin
-test -z ${libexecdir} && libexecdir=${prefix}/bin
-test -z ${datarootdir} && datarootdir=${prefix}/share
-test -z ${datadir} && datadir=${datarootdir}
-test -z ${sysconfdir} && sysconfdir=${prefix}/etc
-test -z ${libdir} && libdir=${prefix}/lib
-test -z ${mandir} && mandir=${prefix}/share/man
-test -z ${includedir} && includedir=${prefix}/include
-
-# The source directory is the location of this file
-srcdir=$(dirname $0)
-
-# The build directory is the current location
-builddir=`pwd`
-
-# If we're calling this file from the source directory then
-# we automatically create a build directory and ensure that
-# both Meson and Ninja invocations are relative to that
-# location
-if [[ -f "${builddir}/meson.build" ]]; then
-    mkdir -p _build
-    builddir="${builddir}/_build"
-    NINJA_OPT="-C ${builddir}"
-fi
-
-# Wrapper Makefile for Ninja
-cat > Makefile <<END
-# Generated by configure; do not edit
-
-all: rebuild
-	${NINJA} ${NINJA_OPT}
-
-rebuild:
-	rm -f ${builddir}/fractal
-
-install:
-	DESTDIR="\$(DESTDIR)" ${NINJA} ${NINJA_OPT} install
-
-uninstall:
-	${NINJA} ${NINJA_OPT} uninstall
-
-release:
-	${NINJA} ${NINJA_OPT} release
-
-check:
-	${MESONTEST} ${NINJA_OPT}
-END
-
-echo "
-
-        fractal
-        =======
-
-        meson:         ${MESON}
-        ninja:         ${NINJA}
-        prefix:        ${prefix}
-
-        Now type 'make' to build
-"
-
-cmd_options=""
-for key in "${!meson_options[@]}"; do
-    cmd_options="$cmd_options -Denable-$key=${meson_options[$key]}"
-done
-
-exec ${MESON} \
-    --prefix=${prefix} \
-    --libdir=${libdir} \
-    --libexecdir=${libexecdir} \
-    --datadir=${datadir} \
-    --sysconfdir=${sysconfdir} \
-    --bindir=${bindir} \
-    --includedir=${includedir} \
-    --mandir=${mandir} \
-    ${cmd_options} \
-    ${builddir} \
-    ${srcdir}