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there are two x extensions for working with monitors (especially multiple): xinerama and randr. xinerama is old, feature-poor and in general isn't used anymore compared to the randr: new, feature-rich and widely-used. for some reason we were using both of them, so let's drop xinerama to keep things simple, clean and small. and to be modern. the drop was done in three steps: * first step was to replace all the xinerama-based code with the randr-based one and to replace or remove all the xinerama mentions; * second step was to replace the xinerama's terminology with the randr's one. xinerama was referring only to the word "screen", while randr refers to multiple words and i think the word "monitor" is the most suitable for us and, hopefully, clear both to a contributor and to an end user; * third step was to refactor the new randr-based code if needed and to address related todo's (mostly about moving related functions elsewhere). all the steps were done well except addressing a leftover todo about moving the win_update_monitor function to the x.c which wasn't done. the xinerama-shadow-crop option was renamed to crop-shadow-to-monitor, but it's previous name is still accepted, has effect and the deprecation message is printed to preserve backwards-compatibility. |
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README.md
picom
picom is a compositor for X, and a fork of Compton.
This is a development branch, bugs to be expected
You can leave your feedback or thoughts in the discussion tab.
Change Log
See Releases
Build
Dependencies
Assuming you already have all the usual building tools installed (e.g. gcc, python, meson, ninja, etc.), you still need:
- libx11
- libx11-xcb
- libXext
- xproto
- xcb
- xcb-damage
- xcb-dpms
- xcb-xfixes
- xcb-shape
- xcb-renderutil
- xcb-render
- xcb-randr
- xcb-composite
- xcb-image
- xcb-present
- xcb-glx
- pixman
- libdbus (optional, disable with the
-Ddbus=falsemeson configure flag) - libconfig (optional, disable with the
-Dconfig_file=falsemeson configure flag) - libGL, libEGL (optional, disable with the
-Dopengl=falsemeson configure flag) - libpcre2 (optional, disable with the
-Dregex=falsemeson configure flag) - libev
- uthash
On Debian based distributions (e.g. Ubuntu), the needed packages are
libxext-dev libxcb1-dev libxcb-damage0-dev libxcb-dpms0-dev libxcb-xfixes0-dev libxcb-shape0-dev libxcb-render-util0-dev libxcb-render0-dev libxcb-randr0-dev libxcb-composite0-dev libxcb-image0-dev libxcb-present-dev libxcb-glx0-dev libpixman-1-dev libdbus-1-dev libconfig-dev libgl-dev libegl-dev libpcre2-dev libevdev-dev uthash-dev libev-dev libx11-xcb-dev meson
On Fedora, the needed packages are
dbus-devel gcc git libconfig-devel libdrm-devel libev-devel libX11-devel libX11-xcb libXext-devel libxcb-devel libGL-devel libEGL-devel meson pcre2-devel pixman-devel uthash-devel xcb-util-image-devel xcb-util-renderutil-devel xorg-x11-proto-devel
To build the documents, you need asciidoc
To build
$ git submodule update --init --recursive
$ meson setup --buildtype=release . build
$ ninja -C build
Built binary can be found in build/src
If you have libraries and/or headers installed at non-default location (e.g. under /usr/local/), you might need to tell meson about them, since meson doesn't look for dependencies there by default.
You can do that by setting the CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS environment variables when running meson. Like this:
$ LDFLAGS="-L/path/to/libraries" CPPFLAGS="-I/path/to/headers" meson setup --buildtype=release . build
As an example, on FreeBSD, you might have to run meson with:
$ LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib" CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include" meson setup --buildtype=release . build
$ ninja -C build
To install
$ ninja -C build install
Default install prefix is /usr/local, you can change it with meson configure -Dprefix=<path> build
How to Contribute
All contributions are welcome!
New features you think should be included in picom, a fix for a bug you found - please open a PR!
You can take a look at the Issues.
Contributions to the documents and wiki are also appreciated.
Even if you don't want to add anything to picom, you are still helping by compiling and running this branch, and report any issue you can find.
Become a Collaborator
Becoming a collaborator of picom requires significant time commitment. You are expected to reply to issue reports, reviewing PRs, and sometimes fix bugs or implement new feature. You won't be able to push to the main branch directly, and all you code still has to go through code review.
If this sounds good to you, feel free to contact me.
Contributors
See CONTRIBUTORS
The README for the original Compton project can be found here.
Licensing
picom is free software, made available under the MIT and MPL-2.0 software licenses. See the individual source files for details.