This is forked from the original Compton because that seems to have become unmaintained.
The current battle plan of this fork is to refactor it to make the code _possible_ to maintain, so potential contributors won't be scared away when they take a look at the code.
This flag enables the refactored/partially rewritten backends.
Currently new backends features better vsync with the xrender backend, improved input lag with the glx backend (for non-NVIDIA users). The performance should be on par with the old backends.
New backend features will only be implemented on the new backends from now on, and the old backends will eventually be phased out after the new backends stabilizes.
To test the new backends, add the `--experimental-backends` flag to the command line you used to run compton. This flag is not available from the configuration file.
To report issues with the new backends, please state explicitly you are using the new backends in your report.
If you have libraries and/or headers installed at non-default location (e.g. under `/usr/local/`), you might need to tell meson about them, since meson doesn't look for dependencies there by default.
You can do that by setting the `CPPFLAGS` and `LDFLAGS` environment variables when running `meson`. Like this:
You can look at the [Projects](https://github.com/yshui/compton/projects) page, and see if there is anything interests you. Or you can take a look at the [Issues](https://github.com/yshui/compton/issues).
### Non-code
Even if you don't want to contribute code, you can still contribute by compiling and running this branch, and report any issue you can find.
