Questions tagged [picom]
A lightweight X11 compositor (a fork of Compton)
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How to Disable Picom Transparency While Neovim is Opened?
I'm using the st, simple terminal from suckless. I am running picom on startup with picom --backend glx, and the terminal is transparent. I like how the terminal is transparent all the way up until I ...
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Picom compositor conflicts
I am on Arch using Xorg, lightdm, and Cinnamon. When I try to run Picom in Cinnamon I get: ~$ picom [ 11/20/22 23:52:28.630 session_init FATAL ERROR ] Another composite manager is already running I ...
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Rounded corners from gtk theme have black background
I am using i3wm on Manjaro Linux. My gtk theme has rounded corners for menus, but they still have a sharp black background. I am using picom compositor, and I think the issue is something related to ...
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Linux: Redshift is blinking
I am using Arch linux with i3wm and picom as compositor. I would like to be able to use redshift. But when I launch redshift, it turns itself on and off every two seconds, resulting in annoying screen ...
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Fade in/out when switching workspaces (using picom compositor)
Upon enabling fade with the picom compositor, opening and closing windows will fade in and out. I would like to see the same effect upon switching workspaces. This works with i3wm, but not with the ...
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How to enable window preview on task switcher on xfwm4 when default compositor in not running?
I have installed and running picom-git on Arch Linux. I disabled xfce4's default compositor from Settings Manager > Window Manager Tweaks > Compositor > Enable display compositing (unticked). ...
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Picom Transparency Disable on Specific Windows (websites)
I have Picom (Compton) set up so that non-focussed windows are semi-transparent. I like the look and it works for me. However, if I have something like youtube playing in a non-active window, I don't ...
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How to mark a window in i3wm to catch it in Compton?
I've set the opacity for inactive windows in my Compton config. But sometimes I need to fix opacity for a window to keep it readability while it is inactive. I wanted to add a certain class to a ...
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