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SpaceLauncher VS picom

Compare SpaceLauncher VS picom and see what are their differences

SpaceLauncher logo SpaceLauncher

Launch apps by holding down spacebar while pressing a key

picom logo picom

A lightweight compositor for X11 (previously a compton fork).
  • SpaceLauncher Landing page
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    2023-09-30
  • picom Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-09-26

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picom videos

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

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

Category Popularity

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Productivity
100 100%
0% 0
Window Manager
0 0%
100% 100
Mac
41 41%
59% 59
Note Taking
0 0%
100% 100

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, picom seems to be a lot more popular than SpaceLauncher. While we know about 38 links to picom, we've tracked only 1 mention of SpaceLauncher. 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.

SpaceLauncher mentions (1)

  • Is spacelauncher safe?
    It's notarized by apple but I mean, it has systems permissions and could potentially be used as a keylooger. Does anyone have any knowledge about this app? Https://spacelauncherapp.com/. Source: over 1 year ago

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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What are some alternatives?

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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.

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