Winflip VS picom

Winflip

What's more, this particular Vista feature has been turned into a software tool that enables you to enjoy that same 3D window switcher in Windows XP.

picom

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

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WinFlip on Windows 10

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Category Popularity

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picom

Note Taking

23 23%

Note Taking

77% 77

Window Manager

22 22%

Window Manager

78% 78

Mac

23 23%

Mac

77% 77

Linux

18 18%

Linux

82% 82

User comments

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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.

Winflip mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of Winflip yet. Tracking of Winflip 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

What are some alternatives?

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

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

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

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

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.

pekwm - pekwm is a window manager that once up on a time was based on the aewm++ window manager, but it has...

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

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