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README.md
Compton
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.
Changes from xcompmgr:
- inactive window transparency (specified with
-i
) - titlebar/frame transparency (specified with
-e
) - menu transparency (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
The above features give compton a feature set similar to the xfce compositor.
Compton has only been tested with openbox so far, but frame transparency
should work with any window manager that properly sets _NET_FRAME_EXTENTS
.
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)
Building
The same dependencies as xcompmgr.
Dependencies:
- libx11
- libxcomposite
- libxdamage
- libxfixes
- libxrender
- pkg-config
- make
To build, make sure you have the above dependencies:
$ make
$ make install
Usage
$ compton -cC -t -5 -l -5 -r 5 -o 0.4 \
-fF -I 0.065 -O 0.065 -D 6 -m 0.8 -i 0.6 -e 0.6 &
$ compton -cC -t -5 -l -5 -r 5 -o 0.4 -i 0.6 -e 0.6 &
License
xcompmgr has gotten around. As far as I can tell, the lineage for this particular tree is something like:
- Keith Packard (original author)
- Matthew Hawn
- ...
- Dana Jansens
- Myself
Not counting the tens of people who forked it in between.
See LICENSE for more info.