Using Compton, lightweight X11 compositor, in XFCE
Hello. For a few days now, I am testing Compton as a replacement for xfwm4 compositor in XFCE. Native xfwm4 compositor has some issues, video tearing etc., with Nvidia binary driver. So far, compton works fine, I had no issues with it. If you want to play with it, port for it and libconfig (updated port from Tilmans repo (thanks, btw :) ) are attached. There is a README and compton.conf.xfce in the port, slightly modified for Nvidia binary driver and Xfce. More information at https://github.com/chjj/compton http://duncanlock.net/blog/2013/06/07/how-to-switch-to-compton-for-beautiful... Pedja
@Pedja: Does it support full desktop zoom like Compiz Fusion's eZoom? Have you tried this? cheers James James Mills / prologic E: prologic@shortcircuit.net.au W: prologic.shortcircuit.net.au On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 5:38 AM, Predrag Ivanovic <predivan@open.telekom.rs>wrote:
Hello.
For a few days now, I am testing Compton as a replacement for xfwm4 compositor in XFCE. Native xfwm4 compositor has some issues, video tearing etc., with Nvidia binary driver. So far, compton works fine, I had no issues with it.
If you want to play with it, port for it and libconfig (updated port from Tilmans repo (thanks, btw :) ) are attached. There is a README and compton.conf.xfce in the port, slightly modified for Nvidia binary driver and Xfce.
More information at
https://github.com/chjj/compton
http://duncanlock.net/blog/2013/06/07/how-to-switch-to-compton-for-beautiful...
Pedja
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On Mon, 02 Dec 2013 08:10:35 +1000 James Mills wrote:
@Pedja: Does it support full desktop zoom like Compiz Fusion's eZoom? Have you tried this?
cheers James
I haven't tried it, and there is no mention in docs about zoom, sorry. Open the issue at github, developer actually reads it :) and seems open to suggestions, ideas and patches. Pedja
On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Predrag Ivanovic <predivan@open.telekom.rs>wrote:
I haven't tried it, and there is no mention in docs about zoom, sorry. Open the issue at github, developer actually reads it :) and seems open to
suggestions, ideas and patches.
What's the status of compton anyway? Is it the official Xorg compositing engine? cheers James
On Mon, 02 Dec 2013 12:45:55 +1000 James Mills wrote:
On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Predrag Ivanovic <predivan@open.telekom.rs>wrote:
I haven't tried it, and there is no mention in docs about zoom, sorry. Open the issue at github, developer actually reads it :) and seems open to
suggestions, ideas and patches.
What's the status of compton anyway? Is it the official Xorg compositing engine?
cheers James
Compton is a fork of xcompmgr-dana, which is a fork of xcompmgr (PoC compositor from xorg, or closest to 'official xorg compositing engine' you can get). Some distributions are considering compton as a replacement/alternative to Compiz or xfwm compositor, because not everyone wants all the bells and whistles that Compiz has, so its better suited for light(er) DE, and it just works[tm] (after some tinkering with default configuration). And for 0.x release, it is very stable and fast :) My .02 RSD (I ran out of cents). Pedja
On Mon, 2 Dec 2013 13:34:03 +0100 Predrag Ivanovic <predivan@open.telekom.rs> wrote:
On Mon, 02 Dec 2013 12:45:55 +1000 James Mills wrote:
On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Predrag Ivanovic <predivan@open.telekom.rs>wrote:
I haven't tried it, and there is no mention in docs about zoom, sorry. Open the issue at github, developer actually reads it :) and seems open to
suggestions, ideas and patches.
What's the status of compton anyway? Is it the official Xorg compositing engine?
cheers James
Compton is a fork of xcompmgr-dana, which is a fork of xcompmgr (PoC compositor from xorg, or closest to 'official xorg compositing engine' you can get).
Some distributions are considering compton as a replacement/alternative to Compiz or xfwm compositor, because not everyone wants all the bells and whistles that Compiz has, so its better suited for light(er) DE, and it just works[tm] (after some tinkering with default configuration).
And for 0.x release, it is very stable and fast :)
My .02 RSD (I ran out of cents).
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Actually, XFWM's compositor seems very similar to Compton's (shadows on windows etc.) and it works perfectly for my netbook with no screen tearing when I'm playing videos or using transparent terminals (GMA3150, xf86-video-intel). Compton may be useful for Openbox, but XFCE's compositor is just fine for XFCE. Check your xorg.conf or xorg.conf.d, people. ;) P.S.: Peđo, pozdrav sunarodniče! -- Rex <bjorn@krstarica.com>
On Mon, 02 Dec 2013 15:55:18 +0100 Rex wrote:
Actually, XFWM's compositor seems very similar to Compton's (shadows on windows etc.) and it works perfectly for my netbook with no screen tearing when I'm playing videos or using transparent terminals (GMA3150, xf86-video-intel).
I agree that it works fine on a netbook (OpenSuse on HP Mini 110 here), but on a 23' FullHD monitor compton is more fluid than xfwm, with Nvidia binary blob, anyway. Maybe it's a placebo effect, maybe not ;)
Compton may be useful for Openbox, but XFCE's compositor is just fine for XFCE. Check your xorg.conf or xorg.conf.d, people. ;)
Would you mind pasting your xorg.conf, and/or any special settings that you use? Mine is rather minimal, Xorg JustWorks[tm] these days :)
P.S.: Peđo, pozdrav sunarodniče!
Cao, covek (osisana latinica, nikako da se setim da namestim :) ) Pedja
On Mon, 2 Dec 2013 17:16:42 +0100 Predrag Ivanovic <predivan@open.telekom.rs> wrote:
On Mon, 02 Dec 2013 15:55:18 +0100 Rex wrote:
Compton may be useful for Openbox, but XFCE's compositor is just fine for XFCE. Check your xorg.conf or xorg.conf.d, people. ;)
Would you mind pasting your xorg.conf, and/or any special settings that you use? Mine is rather minimal, Xorg JustWorks[tm] these days :)
Here you go, place the following text into a file named /etx/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf: Section "Device" Identifier "Intel Graphics" Driver "intel" Option "AccelMethod" "sna" Option "TearFree" "true" EndSection And to make sure mplayer plays videos without tearing, I use this configure file (/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf): vo=gl_nosw double=yes ao=alsa cache=32768 lavdopts=threads=2 use-filename-title=yes af=scaletempo idx=yes subfont-osd-scale=2 With this configuration I have no problems with compositing and everything works perfectly fine, even playback of 720p video (mp4 and webm), but Flash is still slow, the plugin sucks. -- Rex <bjorn@krstarica.com>
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