Hi Phil,
On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 12:28:56PM +0000, Phil Wyett wrote:
I am interested in 'compton' and would like to adopt it and remove a small part
of the QA
Teams workload from them.
[…]
I use this package now daily as an alternative to the in built XFCE compositor,
so the
health of this package is important to me.
I'm wondering whether you're aware of
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/picom, which is an actively maintained
fork of compton (although, IME, with a focus on being pretty rather than
on quality and performance).
It's more or less a drop-in replacement for compton, so it should be
super easy for you to try it out for a few days. Personally I've had all
sorts of trouble with it in the past (memory leaks, flicker, and a
massive performance degradation that still hasn't been fixed despite
being reported years ago [1]), so I've been using
https://github.com/liskin/compton/tree/debian/sid, which is a somewhat
random snapshot from a time where everything I need works and nothing is
broken yet.
[1]: https://github.com/yshui/picom/issues/381#issuecomment-956359184
Just thought it'd be useful to fill you in, in case you haven't heard
about picom.
Regards,
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Tomáš "liskin" ("Pivník") Janoušek, https://lisk.in/
