picom
A lightweight compositor for X11 (previously a compton fork) (by jonaburg)
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 | i3 | |
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| 51 | 74 | |
| 939 | 6,017 | |
| - | - | |
| 0.0 | 6.3 | |
| 3 months ago | over 1 year ago | |
| C | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License |
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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.
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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 2023-02-23.
- Supreme Linux a noobish attempt to make my own Fedora based distro .
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Picom blur background isn't working, help!
What distro? My pref is for Jonaburg's fork. Ibhagwan is out of date. Pijulius more so. Yshui doesn't have animation.
- How can I get rounded window corners in bspwm?
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My Arch linux desktop configuration
This configuration uses Qtile extra package and one of my favourite picom fork for minimalistic look with rounded-corners
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Does awesome dont support Translucent windows?
As others have said, Awesome doesn't ship with a compositor so you need one yourself. My choice is jonaburg's picom fork for the extra included features, but regular picom will do the job.
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How to put rounded border to xmobar?
Install jonaburg picom https://github.com/jonaburg/picom
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Best picom fork?
picom-jonaburg has rounded corners and animations. Window gaps are controlled by your window manager, compositors can't interact with them.
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Can't remove rounded corners from evince
Offtopic: I know you didn't ask this, but I just saw the fork you are using was updated the last time in 2020: https://github.com/jonaburg/picom/tags . The current version of the original https://github.com/yshui/picom/releases got updated this year (2 years more development!). Unless you are using features that is only available in that fork, I would try the mainline, which also got some of these features too, in example support for rounding corners. So maybe this newer version works better.
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How to exclude Qtile Bar from background-blur in picom
I am using Qtile (on a Laptop running Ubuntu 20.04), with jonaburg-picom, which is blurring my Qtile bar since some parts of it are configured to be transparent. How do I get rid of that blur, can someone help me with this?
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Picom blur & transparency?
This is how I do it with awesomeWM on EndeavourOS. Maybe this will help you. I'm using picom-jonaburg-git.
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.
- help i3/i3-gaps packages broken (i think)
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i3-gaps
why would you get a version that, by the author, has been archived: https://github.com/Airblader/i3
- The i3-gaps project has been merged with i3
What are some alternatives?
When comparing picom and i3 you can also consider the following projects:
picom - A lightweight compositor for X11 (previously a compton fork)
i3-gaps - i3-gaps – i3 with more features (forked from https://github.com/i3/i3)
the-glorious-dotfiles - A glorified personal dot files
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-ibhagwan-template - Void Linux template file for xbps-src
i3-gaps-wm - A fork of the i3 window manager with gaps and some other features
dwm
kitty - Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal
spectrwm - A small dynamic tiling window manager for X11.
polybar-themes - A huge collection of polybar themes with different styles, colors and variants.
st
Ulauncher - Feature rich application Launcher for Linux