bar
A featherweight, lemon-scented, bar based on xcb (by LemonBoy)
picom
A lightweight compositor for X11 (by yshui)
| bar | picom | |
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| 9 | 109 | |
| 1,594 | 3,816 | |
| - | - | |
| 2.4 | 9.7 | |
| 5 days ago | 6 days ago | |
| C | C | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
bar
Posts with mentions or reviews of bar.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-11.
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[wmutils] Yeah! Oh, Yeah!
OpenBSD, bed, nsxiv, bar, tewi
- What patch do I need to get this rectangle side bar in dwm?
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I wrote a status bar generator to learn async Rust, and Rust continues to amaze me
You can see the source code here. It's a tool for generating status bar output for text-based status bars like dzen2, xmobar, or lemonbar. Feedback welcome!
- Program to write text on top of my wallpaper
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Can I get a taskbar with BPSWM or i3?
It's optional though and you can easily replace it with something else. A lot of i3/bspwm users use something like polybar, lemonbar or yabar instead. When I was on bspwm I used tint2. These are all highly customizable, and tiling wm users tend to be the sort who want to customize them, which can be time consuming. But you can use almost anything, even something like the xfce4 panel if you want.
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Status bar for window manager
I like polybar but if you want something simpler, try lemonbar
- Polybar vs tint2
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Which DE do you prefer?
I now run bspwm, along with sxhkd, picom, and lemonbar, as separate userland runit services; my .xinitrc now reads exec dbus-launch --exit-with-x11 runsvdir -P "${HOME}/.local/service/"
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GUI
lemonbar
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 2023-06-18.
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Can't find picom and polybar default config files
(https://github.com/yshui/picom/blob/next/picom.sample.conf)
- ArchLinux sluggish on 4K monitor
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[photo] installing Debian :)
Also I took a census and zero founding members of NWA are "straight outta Picom". That's right, you heard it here first: Not even MC Ren is running Picom.
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FPS drops when scrolling in monocle layout with Picom
Update: after reporting in picom GitHub repo this is temporarily solved by using --no-frame-pacing. Looks like a recent commit causes this. You can view the discussion here: https://github.com/yshui/picom/issues/1072
- Zoom in and zoom out in dwm?
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Compositor Options for Animations
NEED HELP TESTING (write your issues here): https://github.com/yshui/picom/issues/1052
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[dwm] Beginning on linux desktop, first ricing
Compositor : picom
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In Picom with the rounded-corners setting how do you apply alpha to the menu list?
It looks like this was identified and the repo corrected in Jan (https://github.com/yshui/picom/issues/808) but the NixOS package has not been updated since Nov.
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I have two Linux computers which I use for gaming.... somehow the one with slightly inferior hardware gets significantly better performance. I'm trying to figure out why... any ideas?
If you have compositing you are likely using picom. You can check if it's running with ps -A | grep picom. I've never dealt with this issue as I don't really game on linux often, but I'm sure there's a solution somewhere in the github docs or issues. Worst case scenario you could always just kill the process with killall picom whenever you're about to game, and re-enable it with picom -b after. Do note though that currently running windows might bug out a bit when you kill/start the compositor.
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What are WSL limitations compared with a pure linux install?
Picom is broken for me with GLX backend related Github issue.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing bar and picom you can also consider the following projects:
polybar - A fast and easy-to-use status bar [Moved to: https://github.com/polybar/polybar]
compton - A lightweight compositor for X11 [Moved to: https://github.com/yshui/picom]
bspwm - A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning
compton - A compositor for X11.
sxhkd - Simple X hotkey daemon
picom - A lightweight compositor for X11 (previously a compton fork)
ly - display manager with console UI [Moved to: https://github.com/fairyglade/ly]
wayward - Fast desktop shell for wayland and weston.
ly - display manager with console UI
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
ly-void - TUI display manager for Linux Void
void-packages - The Void source packages collection