Compton with custom GLSL shader instead of blur effect

Building

Dependencies:

B for build-time

R for runtime

• libx11 (B,R)
• libxcomposite (B,R)
• libxdamage (B,R)
• libxfixes (B,R)
• libXext (B,R)
• libxrender (B,R)
• libXrandr (B,R)
• libXinerama (B,R) (Can be disabled with NO_XINERAMA at compile time)
• pkg-config (B)
• make (B)
• xproto / x11proto (B)
• sh (R)
• xprop,xwininfo / x11-utils (R)
• libpcre (B,R) (Can be disabled with NO_REGEX_PCRE at compile time)
• libconfig (B,R) (Can be disabled with NO_LIBCONFIG at compile time)
• libdrm (B) (Can be disabled with NO_VSYNC_DRM at compile time)
• libGL (B,R) (Can be disabled with NO_VSYNC_OPENGL at compile time)
• libdbus (B,R) (Can be disabled with NO_DBUS at compile time)
• asciidoc (B) (and docbook-xml-dtd-4.5, libxml-utils, libxslt, xsltproc, xmlto, etc. if your distro doesn't pull them in)

How to build

To build, make sure you have the dependencies above:

# Make the main program
$ make
# Make the man pages
$ make docs
# Install
$ make install

Usage

you may skip step 1 to 4 and use sample config compton.sample.conf

1. Set backend to glx in the config
2. Enable blur in the config
3. Set shader-path in the config
4. Write your own shader or use the one in shaders folder
5. Disable other running compositor
6. Run with compton --config /path/to/config.conf -b

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