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Richard Grenville 07bc7485c3 Imp: Multi-pass blur & D-Bus fading control 
- Add multipass blur support. Note GLX Framebuffer support is required.
  My benchmark shows multipass blur brings 5% performance boost for X
  Render backend (3x3box). On GLX backend it brings 10% performance
  boost for 5x5box but negatively affects performance for 3x3box. Thanks
  to jrfonseca for advice. (#107)

- GLX backend: Cache blur texture for each window, for a 12% performance
  boost.

- Add D-Bus fading control. Thanks to yulan6248 for testing. (#112)

- Fix FAQ link in README.md. Thanks to lorenzos for report. (#111)

- Correctly deinitialize VSync on on-the-fly VSync method switch.

- X Render backend: Normalize blur kernel.

- Code clean-up.

- Known issue: Linear corruption on border of a window may appear with X
  Render multi-pass blur. Possible to fix but probably not worthwhile.
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Compton

Compton is a compositor for X, and a fork of xcompmgr-dana.

I was frustrated by the low amount of standalone lightweight compositors. Compton was forked from Dana Jansens' fork of xcompmgr and refactored. I fixed whatever bug I found, and added features I wanted. Things seem stable, but don't quote me on it. I will most likely be actively working on this until I get the features I want. This is also a learning experience for me. That is, I'm partially doing this out of a desire to learn Xlib.

Changes from xcompmgr:

  • OpenGL backend (--backend glx), in addition to the old X Render backend.
  • Inactive window transparency (-i) / dimming (--inactive-dim).
  • Titlebar/frame transparency (-e).
  • Menu transparency (-m, thanks to Dana).
  • shadows are now enabled for argb windows, e.g. terminals with transparency
  • removed serverside shadows (and simple compositing) to clean the code, the only option that remains is clientside shadows
  • configuration files (see the man page for more details)
  • colored shadows (--shadow-[red/green/blue])
  • a new fade system
  • VSync support (not always working)
  • Blur of background of transparent windows, window color inversion (bad in performance)
  • Some more options...

Fixes from the original xcompmgr:

  • fixed a segfault when opening certain window types
  • fixed a memory leak caused by not freeing up shadows (from the freedesktop repo)
  • fixed the conflict with chromium and similar windows
  • many more

Building

Dependencies:

B for build-time

R for runtime

  • libx11 (B,R)
  • libxcomposite (B,R)
  • libxdamage (B,R)
  • libxfixes (B,R)
  • libXext (B,R)
  • libxrender (B,R)
  • libXrandr (B,R)
  • pkg-config (B)
  • make (B)
  • xproto / x11proto (B)
  • sh (R)
  • xprop,xwininfo / x11-utils (R)
  • libpcre (B,R) (Can be disabled with NO_REGEX_PCRE at compile time)
  • libconfig (B,R) (Can be disabled with NO_LIBCONFIG at compile time)
  • libdrm (B) (Can be disabled with NO_VSYNC_DRM at compile time)
  • libGL (B,R) (Can be disabled with NO_VSYNC_OPENGL at compile time)
  • libdbus (B,R) (Can be disabled with NO_DBUS at compile time)
  • asciidoc (B)

How to build

To build, make sure you have the dependencies above:

# Make the main program
$ make
# Make the man pages
$ make docs
# Install
$ make install

(Compton does include a _CMakeLists.txt in the tree, but we haven't decided whether we should switch to CMake yet. The Makefile is fully usable right now.)

Known issues

  • Our FAQ covers some known issues.

  • VSync does not work too well. You may check the VSync Guide for how to get (possibly) better effects.

  • If --unredir-if-possible is enabled, when compton redirects/unredirects windows, the screen may flicker. Using --paint-on-overlay minimizes the problem from my observation, yet I do not know if there's a cure.

  • compton may not track focus correctly in all situations. The focus tracking code is experimental. --use-ewmh-active-win might be helpful.

  • The performance of blur under X Render backend might be pretty bad. OpenGL backend could be faster.

  • With --blur-background you may sometimes see weird lines around damaged area. --resize-damage YOUR_BLUR_RADIUS might be helpful in the case.

Usage

Please refer to the Asciidoc man pages (man/compton.1.asciidoc & man/compton-trans.1.asciidoc) for more details and examples.

Note a sample configuration file compton.sample.conf is included in the repository.

Support

  • Bug reports and feature requests should go to the "Issues" section above.

  • Our (semi?) official IRC channel is #compton on FreeNode.

  • Some information is available on the wiki, including FAQ, VSync Guide, and Performance Guide.

License

Although compton has kind of taken on a life of its own, it was originally an xcompmgr fork. xcompmgr has gotten around. As far as I can tell, the lineage for this particular tree is something like:

  • Keith Packard (original author)
  • Matthew Hawn
  • ...
  • Dana Jansens
  • chjj and richardgv

Not counting the tens of people who forked it in between.

Compton is distributed under MIT license, as far as I (richardgv) know. See LICENSE for more info.