picom
A lightweight compositor for X11 (previously a compton fork) (by jonaburg)
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dotfiles
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Getting a menu on right-click of the title-bar (but not on background!)
Here's how to do it - in this example, I'm using my sway-menu python script to generate the menu itself. I'm also moving the menu to be near the cursor:
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Remotely starting graphical app inside Sway session, when the app needs to run as root, without relying on authentication from within the session
Maybe try my script sway-runner
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Using nwg-wrapper for a HUD of help for sway modes
As a geriatric user of sway, I don't always remember the keystrokes in the more esoteric corners of my configuration. I find that my script sway-menu helps with the bulk of the uncommon key bindings. But when I drop into a 'mode' (eg "move" mode) I don't always remember all the clever things I programed into it.
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Is it possible to have my Bluetooth controller disconnect automatically on idle?
I wrote a simple bash script bluetooth-timeout to power-off the linux bluetooth stack after 10m of activity. Maybe this would help you.
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What do I need to install on the Sway spin?
Another source for ideas is to read through the configs and scripts written by others. I offer my own here - there are many others around.
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Application To Display Keybinds On-screen
sway-menu
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Digital overlay clock?
Here's a script that uses nwg-wrapper to display a countdown - it would be easy to modify it to display a digital clock.
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Sway productivity tips
Imma gonna browse through your stuff to see if there's a scratch to a hitherto unnoticed itch that I can snarf. You might like to do the same with my dotfiles - particularly bin/sway-\, *.config/sway** and .config/waybar.
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Anyone know how to move container to the next *empty* workspace?
You might be able to modify my sway-next-empty-workspace script for that. Maybe see if changing swaymsg to i3-msg does the job.
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Password manager solution in Wayland?
I use myclipman to wrap clipman with wayland/swaywm to prevent passwords being cached.
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.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing dotfiles and picom you can also consider the following projects:
i3status-rust - Very resourcefriendly and feature-rich replacement for i3status, written in pure Rust
picom - A lightweight compositor for X11 (previously a compton fork)
sway-gnome - Opinionated Sway Configuration using GNOME session services, for GNOME >= 3.34
picom-ibhagwan-template - Void Linux template file for xbps-src
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
the-glorious-dotfiles - A glorified personal dot files
openSUSEway - dotfiles for Sway on openSUSE
dwm
ydotool - Generic command-line automation tool (no X!)
spectrwm - A small dynamic tiling window manager for X11.
cage - A Wayland kiosk
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