chjj/compton

A compositor for X11.

Tim McBride

@deviousgeek

Hey guys! When compton is enabled, typing into text fields / boxes / the address bar of chrome / chromium is really slow!

I know there's an issue with popups / context menus in chrome, but that can be avoided thankfully

a13ph

@a13ph

chrome://gpu might help

Tim McBride

@deviousgeek

this issue is a killer though.

yeah? for logs?

a13ph

@a13ph

for checking status of gpu acceleration etc

Tim McBride

@deviousgeek

it seems to be a mix of both

a13ph

@a13ph

chrome://flags if for trying to get things working

Tim McBride

@deviousgeek

http://pastie.org/private/n3cktz3fewvw3svkyb0ag

a13ph

@a13ph

i was mostly referring to status. but be its guest

i'm sorry, i'm just pointing you out to some directions. I myself dropped using compton/compositors, too much setting up without too much effect, sadly. Will probably return to them when I have time to fiddle

Tim McBride

@deviousgeek

Interesting, it seems to only be slow when it's the only window on the screen

a13ph

@a13ph

of course. it's compositor.

I think you need to get canvas acceleration, but who knows. i have issues even with whole acceleration enabled

look at compton wiki on github too

good luck

Tim McBride

@deviousgeek

cheers

I forced all of them on, did not seem to make a diff.

a13ph

@a13ph

http://xkcd.com/456/ http://xkcd.com/963/ https://www.xkcd.com/619/

Tim McBride

@deviousgeek

heh. :)

nodecraic

@webworkio

hey, if anyone has any remote remote , designer, DevOps or Sysadmin jobs they can post them at http://webwork.io

arisian

@arisian

Hi guys, just found compton the other day, and after a bit of fiddling got frustrated that I couldn't set per-wintype values of "active-opacity" and "inactive-opacity". So, I grabbed the latest git code, and hacked it so that I could :smile:

Diff is here: http://pastie.org/private/n1bzjzsugpni9wxbkumg

Anyone who wants to use it is welcome to do so; if the maintainers want to merge it into the main branch, so much the better. I'm not sure if it adheres to all the idioms and style choices of the rest of the codebase, so feel free to modify it further. I went through as little of the original code as possible while getting my feature working, and once it worked, I was happy and I stopped. Therefore, it's also possible it's not the "best" way of doing things, it was just the way that seemed to require the least amount of changes to the existing code.

arisian

@arisian

To use it, just add active/inactive-opacity to a type setting in your config file, e.g.: "wintypes: { dock = { active-opacity = 1.0; inactive-opacity = 0.5; focus = false; }; }"

In my (admittedly fairly limited) testing, it's seemed to work with no problems; it's always possible (likely, even) that more users trying more things will find a way to break it, but it's not tremendously complicated, so hopefully it won't bork things up for anyone too badly.

Sudeepto

@Sudeepto

Hello guys. I am using Compton on Arch Linux with XFCE . I am having trouble understanding the different variables used in compton.

I wanted to remove the double glass like shadows from all the GTK apps . So I followed this issue page #189 .

I added '_NET_WM_OPAQUE_REGION@:c' to my shadow-exclude array. This helped me remove the borders from the GTK apps . And it also made the Whisker menu flat with the panel. Earlier , the Whisker Menu was on top of the panel . Screenshot of Whisker menu with the problem. But now the fading effects are GONE. Also when I scroll a webpage, I get some ripple effect in the middle of the screen. I think it is screen tearing . Sorry I am very new to settings these things up.

I am also giving you the link of my compton.conf file. Please tell me what should I do change correct things up.

Link to the compton.conf file

I have an Integrated Graphics card from Intel . Intel HD 2500 .

Michael Smith

@androvix

hello

Hubcapp

@Hubcapp

Is there any way to rotate windows with compton?

Oh wait, this is a completely dead chatroom. never mind. Last message 6 months ago

Stefan Ivic

@stefanivic

Hello everyone, quick question. How do i enable blur on compton ?

Diki Ananta

@dikiaap

New version please

Amos Bird

@amosbird

where can I find the compton's rcfile?

Amos Bird

@amosbird

um, what is the best way to differenciate active and inactive windows ? I find that opacity is not good for my usual need

Amos Bird

@amosbird

Hmm, I just cannot disable the transparency of urxvt when running compton. Anyone knows what might be the problem?

gothmog123

@gothmog123

Is there any chance compton development will resume?

matisla

@matisla

Hey, i'm trying to install compton on Fedora 26, so i need to compile it from the sources. For that, I cloned the repo on my computer, cd compton, but when I launch de compilation with make command, I get this error :

make: pcre-config: Command not found
Package x11 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing

x11.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
Package 'x11', required by 'virtual:world', not found
Package 'xcomposite', required by 'virtual:world', not found
Package 'xfixes', required by 'virtual:world', not found
Package 'xdamage', required by 'virtual:world', not found
Package 'xrender', required by 'virtual:world', not found
Package 'xext', required by 'virtual:world', not found
Package 'xrandr', required by 'virtual:world', not found
Package 'xinerama', required by 'virtual:world', not found
Package 'libconfig', required by 'virtual:world', not found
Package 'dbus-1', required by 'virtual:world', not found
make: pcre-config: Command not found
Package libdrm was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing

libdrm.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
Package 'libdrm', required by 'virtual:world', not found
Package x11 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `x11.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
Package 'x11', required by 'virtual:world', not found
Package 'xcomposite', required by 'virtual:world', not found
Package 'xfixes', required by 'virtual:world', not found
Package 'xdamage', required by 'virtual:world', not found
Package 'xrender', required by 'virtual:world', not found
Package 'xext', required by 'virtual:world', not found
Package 'xrandr', required by 'virtual:world', not found
Package 'xinerama', required by 'virtual:world', not found
Package 'libconfig', required by 'virtual:world', not found
Package 'dbus-1', required by 'virtual:world', not found
cc -std=c99 -DCONFIG_XINERAMA -DCONFIG_LIBCONFIG -DCONFIG_LIBCONFIG_LEGACY -DCONFIG_REGEX_PCRE -DCONFIG_REGEX_PCRE_JIT -DCONFIG_VSYNC_DRM -DCONFIG_VSYNC_OPENGL -DCONFIG_VSYNC_OPENGL_GLSL -DCONFIG_VSYNC_OPENGL_FBO -DCONFIG_VSYNC_OPENGL_VBO -DCONFIG_DBUS -DCONFIG_XSYNC -DCONFIG_C2 -DCOMPTON_VERSION="\"git-v0.1_beta2-87-g316eac0-2017-04-30\"" -DNDEBUG -O2 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wall -c src/compton.c
In file included from src/compton.h:10:0,
from src/compton.c:11:
src/common.h:96:10: erreur fatale: X11/Xlib.h : No such file or directory

include <X11/Xlib.h>

      ^~~~~~~~~~~~

could someone help me pls ?

Kris Leech

@krisleech

Anyone had an issue with glx backend after upgrading to Ubuntu 18.04?

yshui

@yshui

@krisleech what is the issue?

@michaelraba

how do i use glx instead of xrender on arch i3-wm?

@michaelraba

Ok, i just specified it in the .conf file

yshui

@yshui

You got it.

Morgan

@morganhein

Howdy! I'm trying to override the opacity for firefox when it is inactive. Something like 'opacity-rule', but for inactive windows instead.

Marcin Mrugacz

@Migacz85

hello

I enabled kawase-blur using this line: git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/compton-tryone-git.git Overall it look fantastic, - but the main issue with it is performance hit - maybe somebody know about some better - more cpu efficient way to turn kawase blur ?

ProgrammerPlays

@ProgrammerPlays

Hey, I'm unable to clone the repo. Git says the repo just doesn't exist. Specifically, I'm using tyrone144/compton. What should I do?

PiBu

@pibuxd

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