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picom

picom is a standalone compositor for Xorg, suitable for use with window managers that do not provide compositing. picom is a fork of compton, which is a fork of xcompmgr-dana, which in turn is a fork of xcompmgr.

Configuration

The default configuration is available in /etc/xdg/picom.conf. For modifications, it can be copied to ~/.config/picom/picom.conf or ~/.config/picom.conf.

Usage

To manually enable default compositing effects during a session, use the following command:
picom &

To autostart picom as a background process for a session, the -b argument can be used (may cause a display freeze):
picom -b