Picom

Jul 20, 2023

Lightweight X11 compositor

Picom formerly a Compton fork is a standalone compositor for X11 for window managers without built-in compositing.

Features

  • Rendering with optional VSync via OpenGL or XRender
  • Transparent windows, menus, titlebars, borders
  • Shadows and colored shadows
  • Fading effects
  • Bluring of background
  • GLSL fragment shader for window contents
  • Conditional settings
  • Config, log and PID file support
  • Remote control via DBus


Checkout these related ports:
  • Yeahwm - Minimal X11 window manager with BeOS-like tabbed titles
  • Xfce4 - Meta-port for the Xfce Desktop Environment
  • Xfce4-wm - Xfce's window manager
  • Xfce4-session - Xfce's session manager
  • Xfce4-panel - Xfce's panel
  • Xfce4-panel-profiles - Xfce's panel multiple layouts manager
  • Xfce4-desktop - Xfce's desktop manager
  • Xdgmenumaker - Generates XDG menus for several window managers
  • Xcompmgr - Sample X compositing manager
  • Wmx - Simple window manager based on wm2
  • Wmname - Prints/sets the window manager name property of the root window
  • Wmii - Dynamic, minimalist window manager for X11
  • Wmii-devel - Dynamic, minimalist window manager for X11
  • Wmconfig - Menu generation tool for X window managers
  • Wmanager - X11 window manager selector