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Compton

Compton is a compositor for X, and a fork of xcompmgr-dana. Created by Christopher Jeffrey

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COMPTON is a compositor for X, and a fork of XCOMPMGR-DANA.

I was frustrated by the low amount of standalone lightweight compositors. Compton was forked from Dana Jansens' fork of xcompmgr and refactored. I fixed whatever bug I found, and added features I wanted. Things seem stable, but don't quote me on it. I will most likely be actively working on this until I get the features I want. This is also a learning experience for me. That is, I'm partially doing this out of a desire to learn Xlib.... More Info »

Changes from xcompmgr:

• OpenGL backend (--backend glx), in addition to the old X Render backend.
• Inactive window transparency (-i) / dimming (--inactive-dim).
• Titlebar/frame transparency (-e).
• Menu transparency (-m, thanks to Dana).
• shadows are now enabled for argb windows, e.g. terminals with transparency
• removed serverside shadows (and simple compositing) to clean the code, the only option that remains is clientside shadows
• configuration files (see the man page for more details)
• colored shadows (--shadow-[red/green/blue])
• a new fade system
• VSync support (not always working)
• Blur of background of transparent windows, window color inversion (bad in performance)
• Some more options...

Fixes from the original xcompmgr:

• fixed a segfault when opening certain window types
• fixed a memory leak caused by not freeing up shadows (from the freedesktop repo)
• fixed the conflict with chromium and similar windows
• many more

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Debian Elementary XFCE: Best Apps for a balanced system

Links to official Compton sites

Official Website GitHub

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Compton was added by thedward in May 2017 and the latest update was made in Aug 2017. The list of alternatives was updated Mar 2020. It's possible to update the information on Compton or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

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Comment by mciania

about Compton · May 2017 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

Tiny and useful compositor not depending on any toolkit.

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