Click here for the official picom README

Click here for the most recent branch of this fork

Why another picom fork?

TL;DR: rounded corners and dual_kawase blur on all backends.

This fork contains:

• Dual kawase blur method from tryone144 as well as his new feature/dual_kawase branch which implements the dual kawase blur method on the experimental glx backend.

• Rounded corners code from sdhand which is also ported to the experimetnal XRender backend.

• New code for rounded corners (+borders) on the glx backend using GLSL fragment shader for both legacy and experimental backends

For more information read my reddit post

How to install

Arch Linux

Install picom-ibhagwan-git from the AUR using your favorite AUR helper such as yay

❯ yay -S picom-ibhagwan-git

Void Linux

Follow the instructions found in picom-ibhagwan-template

Build from source

Clone this repo and follow the build instructions of the official picom README

2021-02-05 Update

It's been a while since this fork had some work and the good people at the main picom branch merged some of this code into the main branch.

However, not all code / features have been merged, ATM the status is as per the below:

Included in main branch

• Rounded corners on legacy backends (both "glx" and "xrender")
• Dual-kawase blur on experimental "glx" backend only

Not-included in main branch

• Rounded corners with "--experimental-backends"
• Rounded borders on the legacy "glx" backend
• Rounded border rules on the legacy "glx" backend
• Dual-kawase blur on the legacy "glx" backend

Updated fork

Since this fork was released a few issues were opened for bugs that were perhaps fixed in the main branch but not on this one, while I always recommend using the main branch as a better strategy than using older forked code, since not all features were yet implemented in the main branch I thought it might still be useful to rebase this fork on the most current work of the main branch.

However, this fork has also been forked quite a few times (over 15), not being certain what work was done based on this fork or what new bugs the rebase will introduce I created a new branch (next-rebase) for the rebased code.

To pull the latest code residing in the next-rebase branch:

❯ git clone --single-branch --branch next-rebase --depth=1 https://github.com/ibhagwan/picom