Picom is a lightweight standalone compositor created for the

X Window System The X Window System (X11, or simply X) is a windowing system for bitmap displays, common on Unix-like operating systems. X originated as part of Project Athena at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1984. The X protocol has been at ...

. It is a fork of compton, created because compton wasn't being actively maintained; compton is, in turn, a fork of xcompmgr-dana, forked from xcompmgr.

Configuration

Picom can be configured using a config file which in most systems is located at $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/picom.conf. However, picom can also be started with a custom config file using the following options: picom --config ~/.config/picom/picom.conf

Usages

Picom has multiple configurations in which it can be run, however in most instances, when using it in conjunction with another

window manager A window manager is system software that controls the placement and appearance of window (computing), windows within a windowing system in a graphical user interface. Most window managers are designed to help provide a desktop environment. They ...

, the -b flag is used to start it as a background process.

Configuration

Usages

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