picom VS awestore

Compare picom vs awestore and see what are their differences.

picom

A lightweight compositor for X11 (by pijulius)

awestore

Sveltes store API for AwesomeWM. (by K4rakara)
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6.1 0.0
29 days ago about 3 years 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.

awestore

Posts with mentions or reviews of awestore. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-25.
  • animations
    13 projects | /r/awesomewm | 25 May 2022
    Awestore - Rubato implementations often reference Awestore (specifically compatibility with it), which was last week's popular AwesomeWM animation framework until Rubato's tantra was read to the above configurations. Nonetheless, its got better documentation, sort of, and is worth a gander as it may make more sense to you or be more helpful to your purposes.
  • Noob Questions about Customizing AwesomeWM (Tagging, Animations)
    3 projects | /r/awesomewm | 1 Jan 2022
    As far as compositing and animating, Awesome itself is NOT a compositor. You will need a separate compositor like picom for things like shadows, background blur, and true transparency. There are forks of picom that also implement window animations but I have not personally tried them. Simple animations can be implemented in Awesome with libraries like rubato or awestore but it's a fairly manual process of changing a window's x and/or y coordinates on a regular interval.
  • Alternative b/c wayland
    5 projects | /r/awesomewm | 21 Aug 2021

What are some alternatives?

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

picom - A lightweight compositor for X11

eww - ElKowars wacky widgets

rubato - Create smooth animations with a slope curve for awesomeWM

bling - Utilities for the awesome window manager

picom - A lightweight compositor for X11

picom - A lightweight compositor for X11

KwesomeDE - A desktop environment made in AwesomeWM

kile

dotfiles - pls help