picom VS dotfiles

Compare picom vs dotfiles and see what are their differences.

picom

A lightweight compositor for X11 (by Arian8j2)

dotfiles

My desktop and WSL configuration files (by JavaCafe01)
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picom dotfiles
3 9
69 566
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8.0 6.0
5 months ago almost 2 years ago
C Lua
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later The Unlicense
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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 2023-02-10.
  • Transition when switching between workspaces using picom?
    2 projects | /r/i3wm | 10 Feb 2023
    Hello, everyone! I've been trying to set up Arian8j2's Picom fork, which has nice transition animations. Everything worked fine with opacity, rounded corners and the open-close windows transitions, but the problem is that no animation is triggered when switching workspaces, except for the fading, which comes by default from the original Picom. In the project's github page there's a gif showing the transitions, and you can see that the animations are triggered by switching workspaces. I am using these options for the transition config:
  • animations
    13 projects | /r/awesomewm | 25 May 2022
    Here is link number 3 - Previous text "[3]"

dotfiles

Posts with mentions or reviews of dotfiles. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-06.

What are some alternatives?

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

picom - A lightweight compositor for X11

qtile-polybar

rubato - Create smooth animations with a slope curve for awesomeWM

titus-awesome - Custom AwesomeWM Theme

bling - Utilities for the awesome window manager

pycritty - CLI program that allows you to change your Alacritty config with one command without editing the config file.

picom - A lightweight compositor for X11

tyrannical - Dynamic tagging configuration system for awesomeWM

dotfiles - pls help

vivarium - A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor using wlroots

dotfiles - My Awesomewm dotfile

awesome-freedesktop - Freedesktop.org menu and desktop icons support for Awesome WM