i3 VS picom

Compare i3 vs picom and see what are their differences.

i3

A fork of the i3 window manager with gaps and some other features. :warning: i3-gaps has been merged into i3. (by Airblader)

picom

A lightweight compositor for X11 (previously a compton fork) (by ibhagwan)
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i3 picom
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6,017 753
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6.3 0.0
over 1 year ago over 2 years ago
C C
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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i3

Posts with mentions or reviews of i3. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-11.

picom

Posts with mentions or reviews of picom. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-27.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing i3 and picom you can also consider the following projects:

i3-gaps - i3-gaps – i3 with more features (forked from https://github.com/i3/i3)

bspwm-rounded-corners - A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning, with support for rounded corners. Very buggy - it's highly recommended to use an external compositor like picom instead.

nerd-fonts - Iconic font aggregator, collection, & patcher. 3,600+ icons, 50+ patched fonts: Hack, Source Code Pro, more. Glyph collections: Font Awesome, Material Design Icons, Octicons, & more

picom - A lightweight compositor for X11 (previously a compton fork)

i3-gaps-wm - A fork of the i3 window manager with gaps and some other features

picom-ibhagwan-template - Void Linux template file for xbps-src

kitty - Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal

picom - A lightweight compositor for X11

polybar-themes - A huge collection of polybar themes with different styles, colors and variants.

xfce-patches - Some patches for Xfce's components

Ulauncher - Feature rich application Launcher for Linux