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picom is a lightweight compositor for X11. It was forked from the original Compton because it seems to have become unmaintained.

There are three different render backends available: xrender, glx, and xr_glx_hybrid.

Installation

USE flags

USE flags for x11-misc/picom A lightweight compositor for X11 (previously a compton fork)

+config-file	Enable config file support
+doc	Build documentation and man pages (requires app-text/asciidoc)
+drm	Enable support for using drm for vsync
dbus	Enable dbus support for anything that needs it (gpsd, gnomemeeting, etc)
opengl	Enable features that require opengl (opengl backend, and opengl vsync methods)
pcre	Add support for Perl Compatible Regular Expressions
test	Enable dependencies and/or preparations necessary to run tests (usually controlled by FEATURES=test but can be toggled independently)

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Emerge

root #emerge --ask x11-misc/picom

Configuration

Configuration file can be specified by the --config parameter. By default, the configuration file is read from locations listed below.

An on-change configuration autoload is supported.

Files

If no --config parameter is provided the following files are searched for in the following order.

• ~/$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/picom.conf - Local (per user) configuration file.
• ~/$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/picom/picom.conf - Local (per user) configuration file.
• /$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS/picom.conf - Global (system wide) configuration file.
• /$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS/picom/picom.conf - Global (system wide) configuration file.

The XDG/Base Directories defines $XDG_CONFIG_HOME (~/.config) and $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS (/etc/xdg).

Usage

It can be started as a background process:

user $picom --daemon