picom
A lightweight compositor for X11 (by yshui)
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Contributed modules for xmonad (by xmonad)
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| picom | xmonad-contrib | |
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| 109 | 50 | |
| 3,815 | 571 | |
| - | 1.1% | |
| 9.7 | 8.7 | |
| 8 days ago | 8 days ago | |
| C | Haskell | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License |
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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.
xmonad-contrib
Posts with mentions or reviews of xmonad-contrib.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-21.
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defToggleStrutsKey not working
This should now also be fixed in HEAD: https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad-contrib/commit/90f4a96f933a8ecc014b6def54fb929ee9e73e49
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How to check xmonad version?
If you're on NixOS then definitely look into /u/LSLeary's excellent flake! (docs)
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XMonad on NixOS
Perhaps you're not aware of the module exposed by the xmonad-contrib flake? It can do most of the setup for you. See the NixOS Modules section of https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad-contrib/blob/master/NIX.md.
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Custom gsConfig for spawnSelected
Seems there was a documentation bug in that module. Does this fix help?
- Most Recently Used (MRU)
- Normalize the Fraction Between Master and Slave Windows
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Mimic LeftWM's CenterdMainFluid in Xmonad?
There is X.L.CenteredIfSingle. However, it didn't land in 0.17.0, so you'll have to either wait for 0.17.1 (dropping soon, I promise!), compile xmonad from git, or just copy the file as-is (which should be doable) into your configuration.
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Applying window decorations in xmonad while there is onlmore than one window
Btw there is an alternative way to implement smart bar using `AltMax` from xmonad-contrib but I'm not using it because of this [known bug](https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad-contrib/issues/75).
- Key bind to remove borders around windows??
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Custom Xomobar output
Note that the linked solution is a bit buggy (see here). But regarding your question, it's as simple as it gets. You could maybe replace (getModeName <$> (XS.get :: X ModeName)) with XS.gets getModeNameand maybe defining it somewhere else (e.g. logMode :: Logger), but that's really it. You could wait for #703 to be merged (whenever that may be), or just take the code from there (PSA: still in a rough state, undocumented, and very likely will change) and roll with it: it is xmonad after all, your config is going to be compiled anyway!
What are some alternatives?
When comparing picom and xmonad-contrib you can also consider the following projects:
compton - A lightweight compositor for X11 [Moved to: https://github.com/yshui/picom]
polybar - A fast and easy-to-use status bar
compton - A compositor for X11.
xmonad - The core of xmonad, a small but functional ICCCM-compliant tiling window manager
picom - A lightweight compositor for X11 (previously a compton fork)
xmobar - A minimalistic status bar
wayward - Fast desktop shell for wayland and weston.
dotfiles
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
spotifywm - Set Spotify's WM_NAME before opening the window
void-packages - The Void source packages collection
xmonad-utils - A small collection of X utilities useful when running XMonad.