Warning

Very experimental software, only use with amd or newer intel gpus.

vcompmgr

A lightweight x11 compositor (forked from xcompmgr). Requires a server with XFIXES, DAMAGE, RENDER, and COMPOSITE extensions. Currently broken for window managers that have window decorations and many nvidia gpus.

By lightweight i mean, very lightweight, it has less lines of code than xcompmgr it self while featuring these features alongside the default xcompmgr ones:

True zoom
Colored shadows

And a few improvements were also added:

Shadows on argb windows
Shadows caching (hello perfomance :D)

Building

sudo make clean install

Dependencies: xcomposite, xfixes, xdamage, xrender, xext, x11, libdrm

Configuration

Default options are in config.h and are set at compile time. Any flag passed at runtime overrides the default one. config.h has enough information about configuration.

Usage

vcompmgr [options]

Shadows

-c # enable shadows
-r value # blur radius
-l value # horizontal offset
-t value # vertical offset
-k color # shadow color, e.g. -k '000000'

Shadow color can also be changed at runtime without restarting:

vcompmgr -k 'ff0000'

Fading

-f # enable fade in/out on map/unmap
-D value # time between fade steps in ms

Zoom

-Z value # set zoom to value (e.g. -Z 1.5)
-Z +value # zoom in by value
-Z -value # zoom out by value
-G # print current zoom level
-m value # minimum zoom
-M value # maximum zoom
-u value # animation duration in ms
-b value # animation cubic-bezier, e.g. -b 0.22,1.0,0.36,1.0

Repository

https://codeberg.org/wh1tepearl/vcompmgr

Bug reports and patches welcome.