devilspie2
Devilspie2 is a window matching utility, allowing the user to perform scripted actions on windows as they are opened and closed. (by dsalt)
picom
A lightweight compositor for X11 (by yshui)
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| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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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.
devilspie2
Posts with mentions or reviews of devilspie2.
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How do I make any and ALL new windows appear behind the active window in Gnome/Ubuntu22.04?
It takes a bit of learning — depending on your level of expertise and understanding, maybe an hour or several hours — but you can use devilspie2 to control a whole bunch of window and dialogue behaviours, including focus. Go to the devilspie2 code page, and scroll down to README for instructions.
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Automatize opening windows in different virtual desktops
Thanks for the answer! Unfortunately, I have checked it, but there it is an issue on the github repo (answered by the creator) that highlights that has not been ported yet on wailand
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 devilspie2 and picom you can also consider the following projects:
xf86-input-wacom - X.Org driver for Wacom devices
compton - A lightweight compositor for X11 [Moved to: https://github.com/yshui/picom]
unclutter-xfixes - Hides the cursor on inactivity (rewrite of unclutter)
compton - A compositor for X11.
xsuspender - :eyes: :computer: :zzz: :battery: Save battery by auto-suspending unfocused X11 applications.
picom - A lightweight compositor for X11 (previously a compton fork)
wayward - Fast desktop shell for wayland and weston.
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
void-packages - The Void source packages collection
xfce-patches - Some patches for Xfce's components
xmonad-contrib - Contributed modules for xmonad