picom VS KwesomeDE

Compare picom vs KwesomeDE and see what are their differences.

picom

A lightweight compositor for X11 (by pijulius)

KwesomeDE

A desktop environment made in AwesomeWM (by Kasper24)
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6.1 9.4
28 days ago 6 months ago
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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 2023-01-21.

KwesomeDE

Posts with mentions or reviews of KwesomeDE. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-20.
  • Awesome WM customizer/configurator
    9 projects | /r/awesomewm | 20 Feb 2023
    u/BaigGam3rss I still have some work to do to make my own widgets but you probably start with the documentation [1][2]. And then look at some other projects that use Awesome API to build widgets (ex: [3][4][5][6][7]).
  • Network manager?
    3 projects | /r/awesomewm | 19 Feb 2023
    I found the wireless widget from https://github.com/Kasper24/KwesomeDE quite nice.
  • looking for the best awesomewm config
    17 projects | /r/awesomewm | 6 Jan 2023
  • Newbie to window manager, why use awesome over other dynamic wm ?
    6 projects | /r/awesomewm | 20 Dec 2022
    Awesome is very different from other window managers...It's a framework window manager! Through its API you can create widgets that are not possible in other WMs (ex: [1],[2],[3].[4]). Furthermore, AwesomeWM can be used as a tiling window managers and as a stacking window managers (like XFCE).
  • Dropdown menu in awesome wm
    3 projects | /r/awesomewm | 26 Sep 2022
    Yes it is possible to do with Awesome API, some examples: https://github.com/rxyhn/yoru#ocean--gallery https://github.com/AlphaTechnolog/dotfiles/tree/awesomewm https://github.com/manilarome/the-glorious-dotfiles https://github.com/Kasper24/KwesomeDE
  • Import pywal awesome?
    2 projects | /r/awesomewm | 31 Jul 2022
    Sorry looks like i misspelt the name, here it is https://github.com/Kasper24/KwesomeDE
  • animations
    13 projects | /r/awesomewm | 25 May 2022
    KwesomeDE - as well as implementing what seems like his own animations and reinventing a few more wheels than I think will practically ever work outside his own system, though thoroughly interesting.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing picom and KwesomeDE you can also consider the following projects:

picom - A lightweight compositor for X11

awesomewm-config - RAVEN2CZ: AwesomeWM Configuration, Libraries and Themes.

rubato - Create smooth animations with a slope curve for awesomeWM

yoru - 夜 - Yoru | Aesthetic and Beautiful Awesome Environment :first_quarter_moon:

picom - A lightweight compositor for X11

bling - Utilities for the awesome window manager

rice - Home Sweet Home

dotfiles - pls help

dotfiles - My Awesomewm dotfile

dotfiles - A repository that contains a collection of various rices that i made over the time