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compton
Discontinued A lightweight compositor for X11 [Moved to: https://github.com/yshui/picom] (by yshui)
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picom
More than 10 unique animation supported picom fork (open window, tag change, fading ...) (by FT-Labs)
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I found an 8 years old bug in Xorg
Picom has an awesome feature [0] that, for the sake of all our eyes, should come by default on every device with a screen. It can continuously adjust the brightness of individual windows by averaging all the pixels in that window. It's great for defending against "flashbangs" (when a new tab burns your eyes with a blank white screen).
0: https://github.com/yshui/picom/blob/ae73f45ad9e313091cdf720d...
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How to make Openbox look good with ease?
Picom is a lightweight standalone compositor created for the X Window System. It is a fork of Compton (which is a fork of xcompmgr-dana, which is also a fork of xcompmgr) and it is suitable for use with window managers like Openbox that do not provide compositing effects on their own. If you want to learn more about its history, then you should visit this page or, if you are interested in knowing a bit more about it, you can check its page on the Arch wiki.
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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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yshui/picom is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 or later which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of picom is C.
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