search

BlackCapCoder / compton

A compositor for X11.
Other
98 stars 3 forks source link

Amazing project, is it still being developed? #15

Open Delvien opened 4 years ago

Delvien commented 4 years ago

See title.

Thanks for all your work!

BlackCapCoder commented 4 years ago

Not really. I got it to state where it works for me and shared it in hopes that I'd be useful to others; I didn't expect it to blow up the way it did! The compton codebase is a mess so the barrier to make even tiny changes is huge. I developed this fork over hours of tedious experimentation- brute force essentially. Eventually I would like to either refactor the codebase to make it maintainable, or to make my changes less hacky so that I can send a PR, but I lack motivation because "it works on my machine" (tm).

Unrelated to the question: To anyone wanting to hack on compton on their own- I can highly recommend implementing your own little composite manager from scratch first. You are going to read through a bunch of examples and projects, and you are going to recognize blocks of them in compton, just with more gunk. This greatly helps when orientating yourself in the code!

Avi-D-coder commented 4 years ago

@yshui has a very active fork yshui/compton