Transition when switching between workspaces using picom?

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  • picom

    A lightweight compositor for X11 (by Arian8j2)

  • Hello, everyone! I've been trying to set up Arian8j2's Picom fork, which has nice transition animations. Everything worked fine with opacity, rounded corners and the open-close windows transitions, but the problem is that no animation is triggered when switching workspaces, except for the fading, which comes by default from the original Picom. In the project's github page there's a gif showing the transitions, and you can see that the animations are triggered by switching workspaces. I am using these options for the transition config:

  • picom-animations

    A lightweight compositor for X11

  • I'm using https://github.com/ornfelt/picom-animations which has very nice animations, only limitation is that not everything can be configured in your config file eg I'm running

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