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I feel like I’m stuck with my WM. When Picom applies aliased corners, and then the app is minimized, restored, and resized multiple times, it produces ugly black pixels in the corners. With each resize/move action, it applies semi-transparent pixels on top of each other, and after a couple of resize actions, they become opaque black.

#FreeBSD #Picom

I’m pretty happy with these Picom patches and my WM tweaks to make squircles in corners, that looks smooth. Slim external border also looks nice.

Next, I’m going to focus on fonts rendering. I think 🤔

#freebsd #wm #picom

Hi #FreeBSD friends, why I can't turn off this ugly looking shadow on the right in #picom ?

shadow-exclude = [
"class_g = 'Plank'",
"name = 'Plank'"
];

alex@freebsd:~ $ xprop | grep WM_CLASS WM_CLASS (STRING) = "plank", "Plank"

getting some weird artifacts with #picom, like 16-pixel black streaks

any ideas?

Transparent windows with picom

Hoy he actualizado un poco varias configuraciones: he personalizado uno de los temas de Rofi que uso; y he dividido los diferentes apartados de configuración de #picom y de #i3wm en varios archivos, para tenerlo todo mejor organizado. Además, he hecho que las ventanas flotantes se centren, salvo las picture-in-picture, que me gusta dejarlas un poco más a su aire, y cuando recargo i3 (porque (des)conecto el monitor, o a saber) me gusta que eso se mantenga en la esquina donde lo dejé.

It is my first time using Picom and I have doubts... I will to know if you use this too.

And now I'm paranoic if picom eats some cpu resources...😣

Thanks!

#askfedi #askfediverse #linux #picom #compositor

A video proof about how #FreeBSD on Mini PC can boot almost as fast as #MacBook Pro M1 Pro. And I bet I can make it to boot even faster.

#FreeBSD #Xfce #picom #macOS

SF Mono font for console to match macOS. Note how the "0" digit looks. With slash inside.

#xfce #macos #picom #fonts

More screenshots

#xfce #picom #freebsd

Semitransparent console looks cool!

#xfce #picom #freebsd

I found ideal solution. You need to edit gtk3.css file, to remove shadow and margin.

Before:

/********************** Window Decorations * */

decoration { border-radius: 0px 7px 0 0; border-width: 0px; box-shadow: 0 3px 9px 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5), 0 0 0 1px rgba(29, 31, 31, 0.9); margin: 10px; }

After:

/********************** Window Decorations * */

decoration { border-radius: 0px; border-width: 1px; background: black; padding: 1px; box-shadow: 0; margin: 0; }

#xfce #picom #gtk

#viernesdeescritorio
Desde #debian #xfce
Sin #picom
Con #picom
Feliz finde 🍻 🦝

If you want to repeat it, here are all settings:

Theme: https://www.freshports.org/x11-themes/greybird-theme/

Wallpaper (macOS Big Sur): https://512pixels.net/projects/default-mac-wallpapers-in-5k/#jp-carousel-19693

System fonts. Note that I set dpi to 95, since it’s closer to macOS visually: https://github.com/sahibjotsaggu/San-Francisco-Pro-Fonts

Picom settings:
https://github.com/alexdeplov/pleeq_com_static/blob/main/alexander_deplov_portfolio/picom_config

Xfce icons: https://www.freshports.org/x11-themes/xfce-icons-elementary

Open XFCE Settings > Window manager > Button layout and set to be [close, minimize, maximize], to match macOS.

#xfce #freebsd #picom #macos

If only XFCE can make rounded corners at the bottom of the window it will be MUCH better.

I tried #Gnome, that has it that way, but Gnome is noticeable slow compared to XFCE.

#FreeBSD #Xfce #picom

Progress so far. I'm using #FreeBSD 14.1 and #Xfce 4, current theme name is Graybird-dark, compositor is #picom

I also changed system font to SF Pro Display, and tweaked fonts rendering to these settings, to be closer to macOS https://mastodon.social/@alex_deplov/112894064306391247

Replaced Ctrl with Cmd as well. So far, so good!

Can you imagine this beautiful-looking OS now running on a $300 Mini PC, sometimes faster than my $1800 MacBook Pro M1 Pro? I can't, but there you go!

Boot time is almost the same as on MacBook

Good article about #Picom configs https://config.phundrak.com/picom.html

Found solution:

blur-background-exclude = [
"class_g = 'firefox'",
];

https://www.reddit.com/r/xfce/comments/119b4b5/comment/j9nzxd3/?context=3&share_id=j1l9il8o0VcMtNx_-8wKX&utm_content=1&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&utm_source=share&utm_term=22

#picom

The only issue I have right now is some odd border around some menus. Any ideas how to fix it? 🤔

Update: I found the way to fix it - just edit gtk3.css and set margin to 0.

#freebsd #picom #macos #mate

I noticed that #mate has a vsync issue (screen tearing), it’s visible when moving any window. Noticeable even with 144 refresh rate.

So I decided to turn off software composing in Mate settings and installed Picom instead. It works great now!

On top of that I got nice shadows, background blur for semi-transparent windows and menus, full control by config file. I was able to tweak is so menus looks closer to macOS.

On the video before and after Picom.

#mate #freebsd #picom #macos

#picom v12 is going to be a pretty exciting release

Video: Desktop Effekte unter LXQt aktivieren

Desktop Effekte machen richtig was her. Ich zeige euch, wie ihr euch einen Compositor installiert und den berühmten Desktop-Würfel oder die Wobbly-Windows aktivieren könnt.

#Desktop #Effekte #Compositor #Compositing #picom #WobblyWindows #Desktopwürfel #Compiz #lxqt

https://gnulinux.ch/desktop-effekte-unter-lxqt-aktivieren

More animations! #picom