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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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* __titlebar/frame transparency__ (specified with `-e`)
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* menu transparency (thanks to Dana)
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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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The above features give compton a feature set similar to the xfce compositor.
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Compton has only been tested with openbox so far, but frame transparency
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should work with any window manager that properly sets `_NET_FRAME_EXTENTS`.
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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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## Building
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The same dependencies 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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* pkg-config
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* make
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To build, make sure you have the above dependencies:
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``` bash
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$ make
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$ make install
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```
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## Usage
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``` bash
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$ compton -cC -t -5 -l -5 -r 5 -o 0.4 \
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-fF -I 0.065 -O 0.065 -D 6 -m 0.8 -i 0.6 -e 0.6 &
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$ compton -cC -t -5 -l -5 -r 5 -o 0.4 -i 0.6 -e 0.6 &
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```
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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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See LICENSE for more info.
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