Compton Compositing Window Manager Slows Down

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Compton Compositing Window Manager Slows Down

The development pace of Compton, a lightweight compositing window manager for X11, has slowed down...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTI4NTI

[Rexilion]

The development pace of Compton, a lightweight compositing window manager for X11, has slowed down.

It's finished.

Kind of makes sense doesn't it??

[NeoBrain]

Kind of makes sense doesn't it??

Nice job, taking things out of context. That blog post was talking about the PPA, not the program itself.

[uid313]

He ought to write it in Xcb instead of Xlib.

[Shnatsel]

Speaking of lightweight compositors, cairo-compmgr has much better performance and also supports a lot of effects (via plugins) like transparency, animations, window expo, etc. which actually work well in pure software rendering. Here's a quick demo in Unity 2D (all compositing done by cairo-compmgr, not metacity): http://youtu.be/pmvehTl_PYo

I also maintain a PPA with it: https://launchpad.net/~shnatsel/+archive/cairo-compmgr

[not.sure]

Speaking of lightweight compositors, cairo-compmgr has much better performance and also supports a lot of effects (via plugins) like transparency, animations, window expo, etc. which actually work well in pure software rendering. Here's a quick demo in Unity 2D (all compositing done by cairo-compmgr, not metacity): http://youtu.be/pmvehTl_PYo

I also maintain a PPA with it: https://launchpad.net/~shnatsel/+archive/cairo-compmgr

That looks pretty neat! Thanks for mentioning it.

[cfeck]

Checking branches...

https://github.com/chjj/compton/commits/richardgv-dev

[Rexilion]

Nice job, taking things out of context. That blog post was talking about the PPA, not the program itself.

I understand your point. Yet I don't agree. Besides, a PPA is never finished as you have to update it. But alas, you have a point (somewhat...).

Furthermore, what is to 'finish' at a PPA?

[h**2]

You could also use unagi:
http://unagi.mini-dweeb.org/

It is written in XCB...

[stqn]

I switched from Xfwm’s compositor to Compton two days ago and I’m very happy with it.
For what it’s worth here are the parameters I’m using:

compton -c -f -o 1.0 -I 0.1 -O 0.1 -C -i 0.95 -z --vsync opengl --unredir-if-possible --shadow-exclude "! name~=''" -b

I gained a very nice fade in/fade out effect, and of course no more tearing in VLC.