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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.
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.
compton
Posts with mentions or reviews of compton.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-25.
- Accidentally messed up Compton configuration on MX Linux
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I did the "Linux breaths new life to old machines" thing
Yeah you need to use a separate compositor along with it, like picom/compton.
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Screen glitches out when opening the terminal
The last update to compton was on April 30th 2017 (see https://github.com/chjj/compton).
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About gaming and latency on Wayland
Or we refer to different things. With "compositor" i mean this, like this. I do have noticed that some Wayland developers like to use "compositor" to mean the window system implementation itself (and then retrofitting the term on Xorg) but while in some way it might be valid with Wayland - since that assumes composition always happen - it is not correct for X.
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graphics problem where blocks of windows disappear. compositing?
# Compton Configuration, courtesy of Xubuntu Developers # Please note that Compton is not supported by Xubuntu and may not work # correctly for you. This file is provided as a set of sane defaults and is in # no way endorsed by the Xubuntu team. # # About Compton: https://github.com/chjj/compton # Heavily based on: https://bit.ly/1l5OrzL # Sample settings: https://github.com/chjj/compton/blob/master/compton.sample.conf # --- Backend (OpenGL used by default) # Related Links # https://github.com/chjj/compton/wiki/perf-guide # https://github.com/chjj/compton/wiki/vsync-guide backend = "glx"; paint-on-overlay = true; glx-no-stencil = true; glx-no-rebind-pixmap = true; unredir-if-possible = true; vsync = "opengl-swc"; # --- Shadows (Disable with shadow = false;) # The shadow exclude options are helpful if you have shadows enabled. # Due to the way compton draws its shadows, certain applications (Such as # shaped windows, custom popups, non-standard toolkits) will have visual glitches. shadow = true; # Enabled client-side shadows on windows. no-dock-shadow = true; # Avoid drawing shadows on dock/panel windows. no-dnd-shadow = true; # Don't draw shadows on DND windows. clear-shadow = true; # Zero the part of the shadow's mask behind the window (experimental). shadow-radius = 10; # The blur radius for shadows. (default 10) shadow-offset-x = -15; # The left offset for shadows. (default -15) shadow-offset-y = -12; # The top offset for shadows. (default -12) shadow-opacity = 0.4; shadow-exclude = [ "! name~=''", # "Unknown" windows, including xfwm4 alt-tab "n:e:Notification", "n:e:Plank", "n:e:Docky", "g:e:Synapse", "g:e:Kupfer", "g:e:Conky", "n:w:*Firefox*", "n:w:*Chrome*", "n:w:*Chromium*", "n:w:*VirtualBox*", "class_g ?= 'Notify-osd'", "class_g ?= 'Cairo-dock'", "class_g ?= 'Xfce4-notifyd'", "class_g ?= 'Xfce4-power-manager'", "class_g ?= 'Xfwm4'", # For the "new" xfwm4 alt-tab "_GTK_FRAME_EXTENTS@:c" # GTK+ 3 CSD windows https://github.com/chjj/compton/issues/189 ]; # --- Fading (Disable with fading = false;) fading = true; # Fade windows during opacity changes. fade-delta = 5; # The time between steps in a fade in milliseconds. (default 5). fade-in-step = 0.03; # Opacity change between steps while fading in. (default 0.03). fade-out-step = 0.03; # Opacity change between steps while fading out. (default 0.03). # --- Additional Settings detect-client-opacity = true; # --- Window type settings wintypes: { tooltip = { fade = true; shadow = false; opacity = 0.9; focus = true; }; };
- Disabling compositing for fullscreen apps.
- picom glx backend error
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Gnome vs XMonad
Ok then. Are you sure that you aren't hitting this issue: https://github.com/chjj/compton/issues/402 ?
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[Pantheon Lite] Style, utility, and refinement
Mimicking Compiz features with openbox settings and picom: invert (active) window colors
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Terminal emulator that can blur the background ?
This will depend on the compositor you choose to use. For DIY desktop environments based on X11, you can use Compton to set blur on translucent windows.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing picom and compton you can also consider the following projects:
compton - A lightweight compositor for X11 [Moved to: https://github.com/yshui/picom]
libstrangle
picom - A lightweight compositor for X11 (previously a compton fork)
SteamVR-for-Linux - Issue tracker for the Linux port of SteamVR
wayward - Fast desktop shell for wayland and weston.
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
pantheon-bzr-qq - Pantheon derivatives, experimental packages, and accessories
void-packages - The Void source packages collection
my_setup
xfce-patches - Some patches for Xfce's components
isomacprog - Convert 64Bit EFI ISO's to work for 32Bit EFI Mac Pro in Bios only mode.