Compton conf comment It involves installing the Compton window compositor. The proposal is to disable Compton by default but provide simple instructions such that users can easily enable it if they choose to. It's working fine on other applications such VSCODE, Termite, polybar etc. For screenshots of overly fake or wrong tech in media! neofetch and compton. 224K subscribers in the itsaunixsystem community. Other linux users should add the line to their compton. I (and a lot of people I know) only use it to get rid of screen tearing and don't use any of the eye-candy options. To add the ppa to your system and install compton, open the terminal and enter the following commands: sudo apt-add-repository ppa:richardgv/compton and sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install compton Next you will want to create your compton config file. conf file in ~/. config/compton. I had placed it in three different locations in my file system all of which the arch wiki page said compton would be able to find it. conf". You have your compton. Without asking for much detail, I would just want to know if is necessary, or even possible, to change my compton. Please refer to this repository's README. I've got a # Limit compton to repaint at most once every 1 / refresh_rate second to boost performance. Maintainer does not do anything, but running compton-conf in QTerminal brings up a GUI. Posted by u/[Deleted Account] - 7 votes and 3 comments I am setting up blur effect for Nautilus through compton by setting up the opacity rule, but it isn't working. Quote reply. config/i3/config: exec compton -f --config ~/. you should probably move to picom since compton In an apache conf file, if a line is start with #, that line is counted as comment. Thanks! Reply If you start compton without a configuration file, you get no effect at all. A rolling release distro featuring a user-friendly installer, tested updates and a community of friendly users for support. Although I believe it's possible to implement with compton as well. I’ve tried a few compositor, mostly forks of Picom adding blur, rounded corners and animations. If you have an opinion on this issue, give a thumbs up/down or provide more detailed feedback as a comment. config where it can get autodetected :P Compton is a very lightweight compositor that is based on xcompmgr (its a fork of xcompmgr-dana). P. Can't you just set window-transparency (or whatever the setting is) to < 1 in your Compton config? I don't remember the actual name of it, Apparently all I had to do was create a compton. :D On a related note, I've come across a number of explanations of why screen tearing is such an issue, and this post seemed to sum up the situation well: . conf files from people but it just didn't work. If it works as intended, then add to Session and Startup with these configs. conf config file. Best. glx-swap-method="3" in my nvidia compton setup does the same triple buffering thing, if I remember correctly. conf line in the form of compton_enable="YES", you can add flags in the form of compton_flags="--vsync drm". In general, if you enable the thing with an rc. Got my confs set up and Compton works when I open another terminal and run “Compton &” and I get all the effects. Make sure to restart compton in order for the changes to take effect New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast comments sorted by Best Top New Controversial Q&A [deleted] • Additional 32 votes, 15 comments. ghost opened this issue Oct 15, 2017 · 16 comments Open Exclude opacity for specific programs #450. md for further information. compton. This RFC will be open until Nov 1 2019. conf This file contains bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. conf file from compton-conf. 3 -r 8 -l -12 -t -12 --shadow --vsync opengl-swc --glx-swap To make compton remember the config you have 2 options - either always start it with compton --config path/to/whatever, or put the compton conf in ~/. it might be because its not exec_always (although the way you have it is better), its only executed when i3 first starts, Card-1: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller Card-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Robson CE [Radeon HD Was working until maybe a month ago, but didnt get around to toying with it until this morning. compton. conf file and initialize compton with the --config flag instead of using the vsync and backend flags . Hi guys, just started playing with i3 and have a slight noob problem with Compton. Here is my compton. This is all due to the fact that the X server is out-dated, ill-suitable for today's graphics hardware and basically all the direct video card communication is done as an extension ("patch") over the ancient bloated core. Additional build dependencies are CMake and liblxqt as well as optionally Git to pull latest VCS checkouts. I see and copy exactly compton. For example, #This is a comment line #And then the following is some real settings: AllowOverride None However, this is not allowed. . Compton features a stable opengl backend and working vsync (It also has ArcoLinux users just need to update and skel to get this in. New Disabling compton would remove these visual effects. ghost opened this issue Oct 15, 2017 · 16 comments Comments. s. Also, make sure to use exec_always. This file is not significantly different from the compton. config right? Posted by u/xversion1 - 4 votes and 12 comments My compton config file is in ~/. " For example, "85:class_g = 'st-256color' && !focused" means 85% opacity for st while it is focused. Before we go ahead let me give my system compton. example. Nov 5, 2021. So the correct compton config line is actually: opacity-rule = ["85:class_g = 'Gnome-terminal'"]; For future reference, the window class of a given program can be determined using the xprop tool. Try it for yourself compton --dbus --config /dev/null So I think built-in defaults come from the compton. Also try the xrender-glx-hybrid backend. # This should not be used with --vsync drm/opengl/opengl-oml as they essentially does --sw Fortunately, there is a way to give lightweight desktop environments true window compositing. My compton. Put your desired compton options into a compton. Copy link I used compton-conf to set everything to 1. conf in . conf. Code configuration is handled by CMake. Compton features a stable opengl Since making the previous comment, I'm using the following in my compton. conf in a text editor on Manjaro Share Add a Comment. I'm trying to set it up so that my inactive windows are more transparent than my active windows, so I set up compton, with the following in my ~/. Top. Contribute to dastorm/Compton-xfce-config development by creating an account on GitHub. conf (and the related shortcuts, Openbox menu entries and whatnot) to picom. Read the output of compton -h carefully, there are tons of options you could try. I looked at it, did not change any settings, but changed the LXQt Theme from the default Lubuntu-Arc to Dark and unexpectedly had translucency in the menus, I know there are lots of questions about compton opacity, but I can't seem to find a solution to my problem. The Picom compositor has been installed for a while, along with Compton, but both were disabled by default. config successfully. conf, or any other change is or Compositor: compton. 0 by default, which does work. To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters. Brett99 opened this issue Aug 19, 2018 · 12 comments Open Unable to find compton settings that work perfectly #509. But not on Nautilus. conf Try --xrender-sync along with --xrender-sync-fence & --paint-on-overlay. Additional comment actions. 04, the Lubuntu Development team has removed Compton entirely from Lubuntu, and switched entirely to the newer Picom compositor. It's a good idea to check the RC file to see if there's default flags you'll want to include. The attatched ebuild works in my regular Gentoo install but hasn't been tested in a proper test environment and it may not be written according to the ebuild guidelines; it is only meant as a helpful suggestion, not an ebuild submission. Unfortunately debian wheezy's graphics stack seems to have major problems with ivybridge graphics, and I get all sorts of random hangs whether I'm using stock debian wheezy with gnome, or crunchbang with openbox/compton :( I've created a compton. Also, revise the opacity-rule section of your compton. conf file and enable active-opacity. conf file. I'm not sure whether it couldn't find it or wtf was going on. Try a few things: Put the exec compton line at the beginning of your i3 config file . conf How do I set compton as the compositor in i3's config file? comments sorted by Best Top New Controversial Q&A Add a Comment But xbps-query -m just lists compton, and picom just appears listed with xbps-query -l. I don't know if it's a bug, but picom logic is !focused means "is focused" while focused means "is not focused. conf is the best solution. Save the file as "~/. conf to manage opacity of tiled windows in i3wm so that the text of the window underneath does not show Compton is a very lightweight compositor that is based on xcompmgr (its a fork of xcompmgr-dana). I can start Compton from the terminal, but this defeats the purpose of having it in my i3/config file. if you want compton to run w/ every start of i3. I've appended exec --no-startup-id compton to my i3 config file. Heavy on CPU, mostly work in progress, sometimes impressive, but in the end an optimized compton. Manjaro is a GNU/Linux distribution based on Arch. Switching to the modesetting driver seemed to help, 142 votes, 16 comments. Hello guys, As the title says I'm encountering compton issues in my X session. #And then the following is some real settings: AllowOverride None #A comment that starts in the middle of line Additional comment actions. Settings Manager > Window Manager Tweaks > Compositor Tip: Disable the default first then fire up compton. drm vsync and xrender backend might be a I actually did try crunchbang the other day, its very nice. conf file in the root directory. I just looked, and yeah, doesn't look like it's available on amdgpu. conf picom. Posted by u/[Deleted Account] - 1 vote and 4 comments Lubuntu has featured the Compton X compositor for a while. Copy my compton. conf and see if compton performs any better. With the Compton compositor enabled on your light-weight environment, I could not get compton to pick up and apply my compton. Definitely the best openbox setup I've seen. conf so far; I use it for Openbox and i3; I commented out the blur lines because it doesn't work (actually, it does work but the effect is very slight, the blur-stregth value doesn't make any change): The configuration tool for compton is a part of the LXQt desktop environment, but it's missing from the Gentoo repositories. I run compton with following command line in case it makes a difference: compton --config /dev/null --backend glx -o 0. Sometime I got it but very slight blur. conf Runtime dependencies are libconfig and qtbase. I’ve added “exec compton” to my i3 config and variations such as “exec_always compton” etc but I can’t seem to get it to boot with i3. Open comment sort options. tsujan. sample. And to answer your question, no, it is not necessary. # shorter shadows shadow-radius = 5; shadow-offset-x = -5; shadow-offset-y = -5; Comment options {{title}} Something went wrong. conf can be found in the original post. Encase the entire compton command in quotes and add --no-startup-id after the exec. The localization files were outsourced to repository lxqt-l10n so the corresponding dependencies are needed, too. Sort by: Best. Brett99 opened this issue Aug 19, 2018 · 12 comments Comments. Switching to the modesetting driver seemed to help, but I'm still getting tearing when playing fullscreen videos. Recently, in Lubuntu 23. chp eyzjxjyx ekgd ihor pgzruq ptxalzt ryeqtgv fxllqv rssruhzd ugxlpe