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picom VS SwitchBlade

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picom logo picom

A lightweight compositor for X11 (previously a compton fork).

SwitchBlade logo SwitchBlade

Find and activate windows without leaving the keyboard. Faster than alt-tab.
  • picom Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-09-26
  • SwitchBlade Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-03-12

picom videos

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ArcoLinux : 1481 Making sure compton/picom is working on LXQt

More videos:

  • Review - ArcoLinux : 1479 Changing from compton to picom - transparency in terminals

SwitchBlade videos

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This Is ALMOST The PERFECT Trail Bike! | PIVOT SWITCHBLADE Review

More videos:

  • Review - Best Automatic Knives - What is a Switchblade?
  • Review - Frank Beltrame switchblade review

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to picom and SwitchBlade)

picom

SwitchBlade

Window Manager
80 80%
Window Manager
20% 20
Note Taking
75 75%
Note Taking
25% 25
Mac
73 73%
Mac
27% 27
Linux
100 100%
Linux
0% 0

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, picom seems to be a lot more popular than SwitchBlade. While we know about 38 links to picom, we've tracked only 1 mention of SwitchBlade. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

picom mentions (38)

  • [photo] installing Debian :)
    Also I took a census and zero founding members of NWA are "straight outta Picom". That's right, you heard it here first: Not even MC Ren is running Picom. Source: 10 months ago
  • I have two Linux computers which I use for gaming.... somehow the one with slightly inferior hardware gets significantly better performance. I'm trying to figure out why... any ideas?
    If you have compositing you are likely using picom. You can check if it's running with ps -A | grep picom. I've never dealt with this issue as I don't really game on linux often, but I'm sure there's a solution somewhere in the github docs or issues. Worst case scenario you could always just kill the process with killall picom whenever you're about to game, and re-enable it with picom -b after. Do note though that... Source: about 1 year ago
  • Picom crashes with 'I3_FLOATING_WINDOW' in a rule
    Somewhat recently in official picom, a field called corner-radius-rules was added. I would like all my floating windows to have rounded corners. Source: about 1 year ago
  • Linux Mint XFCE4. I felt like having simpler looking rice. More in reply
    • Compositor: Picom - https://github.com/yshui/picom - used it to just get shadow, under rofi. Source: about 1 year ago
  • Black corners in GTK apps
    I'm running Manjaro with i3 as my window manager. I'm also using picom as a compositor and this is what my config file looks like:. Source: over 1 year ago
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SwitchBlade mentions (1)

  • Looking for a tool similar to Mission Control or Task View, but which visually filters windows as you type based on their titles, descriptions, and/or other Window properties
    SwitchBlade and Switcheroo are mostly good, but their presentation of application windows doesn't include a graphical representation of those windows (and the latter tool seems to be unmaintained. Source: almost 2 years ago

What are some alternatives?

When comparing picom and SwitchBlade, you can also consider the following products

Contexts - Switch between application windows effortlessly — with Fast Search, a better Command-Tab, a Sidebar or even a quick gesture. Free trial available.

VistaSwitcher - VistaSwitcher is an elegant and powerful task management utility for Windows OS.

Xcompmgr - Xcompmgr is a simple composite manager capable of rendering drop shadows and primitive window transparency. Designed solely as a proof-of-concept, Xcompmgr is a lightweight alternative to Compiz and similar composite managers.

Switcheroo - The simplest and fastest ALT-TAB replacement.

Witch - Welcome to the world of W. i. t. c. h.

Compiz - Project information. Maintainer: PS Project Management Team. Driver: Compiz Maintainers. Licence: GNU GPL v2, GNU LGPL v2. 1, MIT / X / Expat Licence.

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