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a lightweight, standalone composite manager for X, suitable for use with window managers that do not natively provide compositing functionality and a fork of xcompmgr-dana.

Compton itself is a fork of xcompmgr-dana, which in turn is a fork of xcompmgr. See the compton github page for further information. Compton in particular is notable for fixing numerous bugs found in its predecessors, and as such, is popular due to its reliability and stability.

Numerous additional improvements and configuration options have also been implemented, including a faster GLX (OpenGL) backend (disabled by default), default inactive/active window opacity, window frame transparency, window background blur, window color inversion, painting rate throttling, VSync, condition-based fine-tune control, configuration file reading, and D-Bus control.

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How do I completely disable shadows on xfce panel indicators and applications? (Xubuntu 16.04 and compton)

I've recently upgraded from Xubuntu 15.10 to 16.04 and I've noticed that some windows have shadows and some don't (I don't want them). I'm using compton as my compositor with the following shadow related settings in my ~/.compton.conf: shadow =…
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How to exclude the Fluxbox taskbar from Compton (shadowing)?

I'm using Fluxbox as windowmanager, and wish to use Compton as compositor. But i'm unable to exclude Fluxbox's taskbar from Compton's (shadow) effects. How can i get Compton to ignore the Fluxbox taskbar, especially for it's shadow effect? As it is…
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Screen tearing only when playing videos using GeForce GT 750M

I'm running Xubuntu 14.04 exclusively, with Compton installed. The OS runs great and I have absolutely no screen tearing when I move my windows around, scroll in my web browser, work in Gimp or Photoshop (wine) or even when I play very graphic…
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compton config for transparency in i3's tabbed/stacked mode

I am trying to: make some applications transparent using compton on i3wm such that in tabbed/ stacked mode in i3wm the underlying windows are hidden (or are not drawn). For example's sake, let us take the application to be zathura. I tried the…
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How to have termite background transparency without text being affected?

I am running Ubuntu 18.04 with i3 and Compton compositor. Now I installed termite and I really want a transparent background. which I can achieve by adding this in my termite config [colors] background = rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5) However this also makes…
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Compton: Incorrect shadow display (favourite settings)?

I am experiencing problems with the shadow display of the Compton composite manager. In certain situations, the frame for the shadows exceeds the window it is applied to, leaving a visible border and sort of a transparent box around it. This seems…
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How do I avoid Compton drawing shadows on the Gnome-Do window?

Compton can draw shadows under windows, which is nice, but unfortunately it draws shadows under the Gnome-Do window, which ends up like this: Is it possible to keep that from happening?
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How to compile Compton on Xubuntu 20.04

could someone help me compile this Compton fork? https://github.com/tryone144/compton/tree/improved_fbo .I have followed the instructions here: github.com/tryone144/compton/blob/improved_fbo/README_orig.md I installed the dependencies, I am really a…
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Compton no longer makes terminal windows transparent

I had compton installed and added to my i3 config file, and it was working great until today it won't make the windows transparent on startup. When I tried killing the process (I have it setup as exec_always in my config file) and restarting it, I…
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Auto start compton in Lubuntu 16.04

Sorry for my bad English My problem is screen tearing in Lubuntu 16.04, my GPU is Intel HD graphic I install compton and this command help me $ compton -b --vsync opengl But I want to auto start compton so I search the Internet for this. I edit the…
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Xfwm4 + Compton: Problems with gtk3 applications

I am currently using Xubuntu 16.10 with the Xfwm4 window manager. I switched out the default compositor with Compton in order to fix my screen tearing issues. This worked flawlessly, however there appears to be some problem with the way Compton…
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Lubuntu LXDE issues with Gis weather running in compton

I've done a lot of google searching on this and can only assume that I'm not setting my compton.conf just right. I have shadows and a blurry background on my Gis Weather where it should be a transparent one. I've looked in my Gis Weather config file…
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Compton compositor not working in Lubuntu 14.04

I have Lubuntu 14.04 64 bits with a R9 380 GPU with propietary drivers (15.302). I had in my repositories ppa:richardgv/compton and ppa:kelleyk/compton right now. I can't make Compton compositor work in my machine, I have followed several tutorials…
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Compton failing to make Cairo Dock transparent

Despite looking for a while I can't find any answers, which either means I'm doing something very stupid and obvious, or - well, I don't know. It's probably that. Running Lubuntu 14.04 on (sadly) an Asus eee x101ch, xcompmgr works fine making Cairo…
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What are some alternatives to Compton and Compiz in XFCE?

I have some serious tearing problems and I dont like Compton. And compiz is too heavy. Is there any WM alternatives?
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