picom/README.md

Compton

This is a development branch, bug to be expected

This is forked from the original Compton because that seems to have become unmaintained. I'll merge pull requests as they appear upstream, as well as trying to fix bugs reported to upstream, or found by myself.

The original README can be found here

Changelog

See Releases

Build

Dependencies

Assuming you already have all the usual building tools installed (e.g. gcc, meson, ninja, etc.), you still need:

• libx11
• libx11-xcb
• libXext
• xproto
• xcb
• xcb-damage
• xcb-xfixes
• xcb-shape
• xcb-renderutil
• xcb-render
• xcb-randr
• xcb-composite
• xcb-image
• xcb-present
• xcb-xinerama (optional, disable with the -Dxinerama=false meson configure flag)
• pixman
• libdbus (optional, disable with the -Ddbus=false meson configure flag)
• libconfig (optional, disable with the -Dconfig_file=false meson configure flag)
• libxdg-basedir (optional, disable with the -Dconfig_file=false meson configure flag)
• libGL (optional, disable with the -Dopengl=false meson configure flag)
• libpcre (optional, disable with the -Dregex=false meson configure flag)
• libev

To build the documents, you need asciidoc

How to build

$ meson --buildtype=release . build
$ ninja -C build

Built binary can be found in build/src

How to Contribute

Code

You can look at the Projects page, and see if there is anything interests you. Or you can take a look at the Issues.

Non-code

Even if you don't want to contribute code, you can still contribute by compiling and running this branch, and report any issue you can find.

Contributors

See CONTRIBUTORS