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Compton VS picom

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Compton

Makes it easy to give remote presentations

picom

A lightweight compositor for X11 (previously a compton fork).
  • Compton Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-06-16
  • picom Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-09-26

Compton

Categories
  • Window Manager
  • Mac
  • Productivity
  • Linux
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picom

Categories
  • Window Manager
  • Mac
  • Note Taking
  • Linux
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Compton videos

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Dr. Dre - Compton ALBUM REVIEW

More videos:

  • Review - Dr. Dre - Compton Album Review | DEHH
  • Review - Straight Outta Compton - Movie Review

picom videos

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ArcoLinux : 1481 Making sure compton/picom is working on LXQt

More videos:

  • Review - ArcoLinux : 1479 Changing from compton to picom - transparency in terminals

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Compton and picom)

Compton

picom

Window Manager
33 33%
Window Manager
67% 67
Productivity
100 100%
Productivity
0% 0
Note Taking
0 0%
Note Taking
100% 100
Mac
39 39%
Mac
61% 61

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, picom seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 38 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Compton mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of Compton yet. Tracking of Compton recommendations started around Mar 2021.

picom mentions (38)

  • [photo] installing Debian :)
    Also I took a census and zero founding members of NWA are "straight outta Picom". That's right, you heard it here first: Not even MC Ren is running Picom. Source: 8 months ago
  • I have two Linux computers which I use for gaming.... somehow the one with slightly inferior hardware gets significantly better performance. I'm trying to figure out why... any ideas?
    If you have compositing you are likely using picom. You can check if it's running with ps -A | grep picom. I've never dealt with this issue as I don't really game on linux often, but I'm sure there's a solution somewhere in the github docs or issues. Worst case scenario you could always just kill the process with killall picom whenever you're about to game, and re-enable it with picom -b after. Do note though that... Source: 10 months ago
  • Picom crashes with 'I3_FLOATING_WINDOW' in a rule
    Somewhat recently in official picom, a field called corner-radius-rules was added. I would like all my floating windows to have rounded corners. Source: 11 months ago
  • Linux Mint XFCE4. I felt like having simpler looking rice. More in reply
    • Compositor: Picom - https://github.com/yshui/picom - used it to just get shadow, under rofi. Source: 12 months ago
  • Black corners in GTK apps
    I'm running Manjaro with i3 as my window manager. I'm also using picom as a compositor and this is what my config file looks like:. Source: about 1 year ago
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What are some alternatives?

When comparing Compton and picom, you can also consider the following products

Xcompmgr - Xcompmgr is a simple composite manager capable of rendering drop shadows and primitive window transparency. Designed solely as a proof-of-concept, Xcompmgr is a lightweight alternative to Compiz and similar composite managers.

Prezlr - Clean and simple remote presentations

Contexts - Switch between application windows effortlessly — with Fast Search, a better Command-Tab, a Sidebar or even a quick gesture. Free trial available.

VistaSwitcher - VistaSwitcher is an elegant and powerful task management utility for Windows OS.

Witch - Welcome to the world of W. i. t. c. h.

Compiz - Project information. Maintainer: PS Project Management Team. Driver: Compiz Maintainers. Licence: GNU GPL v2, GNU LGPL v2. 1, MIT / X / Expat Licence.

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