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SuperSwitcher VS picom

Compare SuperSwitcher VS picom and see what are their differences

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SuperSwitcher logo SuperSwitcher

SuperSwitcher is a (more feature-ful) replacement for the Alt-Tab window switching behavior and...

picom logo picom

A lightweight compositor for X11 (previously a compton fork).
  • SuperSwitcher Landing page
    Landing page //
    2019-12-10
  • picom Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-09-26

SuperSwitcher videos

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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

0-100% (relative to SuperSwitcher and picom)

SuperSwitcher

picom

Window Manager
21 21%
Window Manager
79% 79
Note Taking
21 21%
Note Taking
79% 79
Mac
27 27%
Mac
73% 73
Linux
19 19%
Linux
81% 81

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, picom seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 38 times since March 2021. 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.

SuperSwitcher mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of SuperSwitcher yet. Tracking of SuperSwitcher recommendations started around Mar 2021.

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?

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

HyperKeys - Unleash the power of your keyboard by letting you bind ANY action to a shortcut. It's open-source and fully extendable. You can code you own actions or use one from the community !

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

Skippy-XD - Skippy-XD is a full-screen task-switcher for X11.

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.

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

Switcheroo - The simplest and fastest ALT-TAB replacement.

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