yshui / picom

A lightweight compositor for X11 with animation support
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Using multipass blur, reported #260

Open Suavesito-Olimpiada opened 4 years ago

Suavesito-Olimpiada commented 4 years ago

I'm a manjaro architect user, my version of compton (now picom) is 7.4 and when tried using multipass it ask me to report an 'issue', so I'm here reporting that I use it.

The reason why I use multipass blur is because I can approximate a big gaussian kernel just using multipass of box filters, and because it allows me to experiment with custom blurs.

As a side note... I don't know how the kernel are applied, but maybe a read about blur here could be of help. I don't know about X, opengl, etc. but I know a little about C and mathematical performance algorithms, so if I can help on something tell me. :b

yshui commented 4 years ago

@Suavesito-Olimpiada You can get big gaussian kernels from v7.4 without manually specifying multiple kernels now (if you use --experimental-backends) :

blur:
{
  method = "gaussian";
  size = 10;
  deviation = 5.0;
};
Suavesito-Olimpiada commented 4 years ago

@yshui thanks, I'll try it.