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# Compton
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__Compton__ is a compositor for X, and a fork of __xcompmgr-dana__.
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I was frustrated by the low amount of standalone lightweight compositors.
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Compton was forked from Dana Jansens' fork of xcompmgr and refactored. I fixed
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whatever bug I found, and added features I wanted. Things seem stable, but don't
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quote me on it. I will most likely be actively working on this until I get the
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features I want. This is also a learning experience for me. That is, I'm
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partially doing this out of a desire to learn Xlib.
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## Changes from xcompmgr:
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* __inactive window transparency__ (specified with `-i`)
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* shadows are now enabled for argb windows, e.g. terminals with transparency
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* removed serverside shadows (and simple compositing) to clean the code,
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the only option that remains is clientside shadows
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* titlebar transparency (and possibly border transparency) is on the way
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* menu transparency (thanks to Dana)
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## Fixes from the original xcompmgr:
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* fixed a segfault when opening certain window types
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* fixed a memory leak caused by not freeing up shadows (from the freedesktop
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repo)
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## License
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xcompmgr has gotten around. As far as I can tell, the lineage for this
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particular tree is something like:
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* Keith Packard (original author)
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* Matthew Hawn
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* ...
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* Dana Jansens
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* Myself
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Not counting the tens of people who forked it in between.
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Keith Packard's original license remains in the source.
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## Building
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The same dependencies and build as xcompmgr.
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### Dependencies:
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* libx11
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* libxcomposite
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* libxdamage
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* libxfixes
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* libxrender
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* autoconf
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To build, make sure you have the above dependencies:
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``` bash
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$ ./autogen.sh
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$ make
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```
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The above will produce a single binary.
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## Usage
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``` bash
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$ xcompmgr -cC -t -5 -l -5 -r 5 -o 0.5 -fF -I 0.065 -O 0.065 -D 6 -m 0.8 -i &
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$ xcompmgr -cC -t -5 -l -5 -r 5 -o 0.5 -i &
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```
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