Thank you for asking this. Also wondering. It’s just a compositor for wayland right? A compton/picom equivalent?
Seeing so many posts about it, and wondering why.
I use AwesomeWM with Picom, and my idea of what a compositor does is: provide smooth v-synced video playback, and maybe fade a window out gently when I ask it to vanish.
I think compositors are now taking on new animation/interaction roles, where they are getting fancy with screen transitions like scaling/moving/focusing and other than actually managing the windows, are almost becoming Desktop managers themselves.
Thank you for asking this. Also wondering. It’s just a compositor for wayland right? A compton/picom equivalent?
Seeing so many posts about it, and wondering why.
I use AwesomeWM with Picom, and my idea of what a compositor does is: provide smooth v-synced video playback, and maybe fade a window out gently when I ask it to vanish.
I think compositors are now taking on new animation/interaction roles, where they are getting fancy with screen transitions like scaling/moving/focusing and other than actually managing the windows, are almost becoming Desktop managers themselves.
It’s a tiling window manager, equivalent of AwesomeWM, but more similar to i3wm and swaywm. It does have built in window transparency effects.