As of March 2023 I believe you don't need to do --experimental-backends Picom doesn't work with it for me and it's not in --help or man page. I may be wrong though.
Correct --experimental-backends is no longer needed and actually returns an error now. I had to update my config after picom stopped starting. To start picom, just run picom -b.
Oh my god dude, you are a savior! I'm a complete noob and I was losing my mind because I just couldn't make Dolphin transparent on picom. You made it look so simple that I'm feeling bad that I didn't figure it out by myself before lol. Too bad I didn't find your video earlier, though. I just reinstalled my whole system over nothing, but at least I know how it works now. Thank you a lot!
I wanted to drop you a thank you note. I just switched from compton to picom and even though I read the documentation, it wasn't as clearly explained as you explained it. I'm currently using picom (not the development version) with EXWM and I have shadowing, blurring and rounded corners (Using FreeBSD 13.2). Thank you again for you video!
I"ve been trying to do this for a long time, your video was great. The detail and history was accurate for this endeavor. I'm using qtile and additionally I had to mark-ovredir-f... = false.
Thank you for the video. I was using a fork that had some nice transitions and curved corners in bspwm, but it started consuming more than 2 gigs of ram. I moved back to vanilla picom and background blur was not working. At least this video helped me clear out those things.
Thanks man great video, learned a lot. Spent a good chunk of time googling, sifting through reddit and github semi confused about all the picom forks and what not - then landed here and there we go, all questions answered within 10 minutes, awesome!
That's great man your content is very good please continue put in your mind some people are newcomers to linux they don't know anything about Linux and need a full explanation things that seem obvious for some is not for others
Great video. Am a total noob who struggled off and on for months with my background blur. I also see some slick stuff going on with your terminal (like that autofill tech), so I'm gonna rummage around in your videos for an Alacritty setup tutorial. Keep up the good work. Subbed.
Glad it helped! Just so you know, the autofill in the terminal is actually a ZSH plugin, I have a video on it here: ruclips.net/video/wHnMd8uz6j0/видео.html
Thanks for teaching us how to configure our picom.conf file, I learned a lot about some options and now I know where to start in the documentation if I want to do anything more!
@@Mywifeleftme3 i actually didn't knew that, well then, thank you, it made me laugh a lot, so i appreciate the effort on making this funny thumbnail. God bless you!
If you are watching this on december 2023 or later the way to run picom on startup with GLX as your backend while using i3 Display Manager: On my i3 Display Manager configuration file I had to submit "exec_always picom --backend glx -b" and got it up and running during startup!
Hello, nice video! I wanna know about your setup on Arch Linux, including this awesome split screen management, cause I'm struggling so hard as the split screen feature is really slow Is there any videos I can refer to for better window management, and also the beautiful setup like you do here?
corner-radius kind of works on Herbstluftwm, but if you use a pencil thin border for your focused frame it looks a bit scrappy. Not really worth bothering with tbf.
it kind of works on bspwm. except that all the apps want to draw square-edged controls over the rounded corners and it doesn't look great. what really annoys me about bspwm is going full screen doesn't hide the open windows underneath, and with opacity it becomes cascading awfulness of seeing windows behind windows. maybe there's a setting i'm missing.
hiiii, i've used your picom config file but i didn't get the blur animation .... and also when i use --experimental-backends... my system has a lag until i close that process, why's that ?
hey at 11:26 what are you using that shows you a preview of the hex code at the end of each line? looks really useful for configuring stuff at a glance.
@@EricMurphyxyz Oh man that's amazing. I just setup my void Linux not too long ago with a Dracula theme I'm new to customization so I still don't know much. Honestly I want to just copy your whole dotfiles hahaha, blue is my favorite color so your setup really makes me excited.
great video friend, I would like to know if you can make this file available so I can edit these settings on my machine, and I would like to know the name of this launcher similar to dmenu
Not sure why but blurring doesn't seem to work? I put the blur-strength to 10 but it didn't seem to make any noticeable difference, at least not like the difference it made in the video.
how do you do the predictive test? after you located the picom.conf.example text file, when you typed vim, you were able to press (whai i assume is) tab and the file location got put in. is it built in the terminal emulator or is a specific program?
its because you need to make it and copy all of the contents in the example to your picom.conf that you just made (e.g. picom.conf.example -- copy over -> picom.conf )
@@nosleep579 You could try the kernel method which doesn't require glx. But you should be able to use the glx backend. Are you using the most up-to-date version of picom from the GitHub? Which version are you using?
@@EricMurphyxyz I’m using the most recent version I think it’s a problem with my drivers or xorg. Which I’ve tried to troubleshoot and failed so I probably stick to xrender and hope one day it will be fixed.
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As of March 2023 I believe you don't need to do --experimental-backends
Picom doesn't work with it for me and it's not in --help or man page.
I may be wrong though.
Correct --experimental-backends is no longer needed and actually returns an error now. I had to update my config after picom stopped starting. To start picom, just run picom -b.
Oh my god dude, you are a savior! I'm a complete noob and I was losing my mind because I just couldn't make Dolphin transparent on picom. You made it look so simple that I'm feeling bad that I didn't figure it out by myself before lol.
Too bad I didn't find your video earlier, though. I just reinstalled my whole system over nothing, but at least I know how it works now.
Thank you a lot!
I wanted to drop you a thank you note. I just switched from compton to picom and even though I read the documentation, it wasn't as clearly explained as you explained it. I'm currently using picom (not the development version) with EXWM and I have shadowing, blurring and rounded corners (Using FreeBSD 13.2). Thank you again for you video!
Yay! You made the video. Can't wait to watch later. Thanks man!
I keep coming across your tutorials, and they're always the best; going to sub already haha
I"ve been trying to do this for a long time, your video was great. The detail and history was accurate for this endeavor. I'm using qtile and additionally I had to mark-ovredir-f... = false.
Thank you for the video. I was using a fork that had some nice transitions and curved corners in bspwm, but it started consuming more than 2 gigs of ram. I moved back to vanilla picom and background blur was not working. At least this video helped me clear out those things.
Thank you for this! I was tearing my hair out about why blurring wasn't working lol. Turns out I needed to use the glx backend.
I've been looking for this for awhile! thank you!
Thank you. for the most thorough and clearly explained picom tutorial.
Great video! You can change the opacity of Alacritty from it's config file as well, so that you don't affect the text...
Good to note, I think I mention this in my Alacritty video as well!
Thanks man great video, learned a lot. Spent a good chunk of time googling, sifting through reddit and github semi confused about all the picom forks and what not - then landed here and there we go, all questions answered within 10 minutes, awesome!
No problem😊
Eric: The hard part is choosing what Picom to install.
Me: sudo pacman -S picom
Pretty sure that's not the latest version with all the features, though, unless they've updated it
recommended you use "yay -S picom-git" and you can replace "yay" with paru, trizen and many more
this video is just art. Thank you man you just saved our lifes
That's great man your content is very good please continue put in your mind some people are newcomers to linux they don't know anything about Linux and need a full explanation things that seem obvious for some is not for others
Yeah, I've been wanting to do some more videos on Linux basics. Any specific videos you'd like to see?
@@EricMurphyxyz Just an explanation of your settings is very enough for me but without Einstein's side because obviously I'm not :)
Great video. Am a total noob who struggled off and on for months with my background blur. I also see some slick stuff going on with your terminal (like that autofill tech), so I'm gonna rummage around in your videos for an Alacritty setup tutorial. Keep up the good work. Subbed.
Glad it helped! Just so you know, the autofill in the terminal is actually a ZSH plugin, I have a video on it here: ruclips.net/video/wHnMd8uz6j0/видео.html
Thanks for teaching us how to configure our picom.conf file, I learned a lot about some options and now I know where to start in the documentation if I want to do anything more!
Good explanation!, thanks to this video finally I could configure my desktop how I do really want
The thumbnail is top notch 🤣👌
Thank you
@@Mywifeleftme3 thank you what, you didnt made the video
@@RainbowShatterMusic I didn’t make the video but I’m his thumbnail guy
@@Mywifeleftme3 i actually didn't knew that, well then, thank you, it made me laugh a lot, so i appreciate the effort on making this funny thumbnail. God bless you!
@@RainbowShatterMusic I didn’t make the thumbnail, I meant I am the guy in the thumbnail
Worked like a charm, thank you
You’re welcome
If you are watching this on december 2023 or later the way to run picom on startup with GLX as your backend while using i3 Display Manager: On my i3 Display Manager configuration file I had to submit
"exec_always picom --backend glx -b"
and got it up and running during startup!
Blessings that’s between you & me!
Rounded corners works fine on bspwm. Also rounded corners dont need experimental startup
Rounded corners still don't work with window borders for me. Are you on the picom development branch?
Such a helpful video, thank you so much
Any time dawg
Great video. Subbed for more Linux content!
More coming soon!
Thanks! This really helped.
Youre welcome
Hello, nice video! I wanna know about your setup on Arch Linux, including this awesome split screen management, cause I'm struggling so hard as the split screen feature is really slow
Is there any videos I can refer to for better window management, and also the beautiful setup like you do here?
corner-radius kind of works on Herbstluftwm, but if you use a pencil thin border for your focused frame it looks a bit scrappy. Not really worth bothering with tbf.
Yeah, I'm OK with not having rounded corners
u are the best bro
it kind of works on bspwm. except that all the apps want to draw square-edged controls over the rounded corners and it doesn't look great.
what really annoys me about bspwm is going full screen doesn't hide the open windows underneath, and with opacity it becomes cascading awfulness of seeing windows behind windows. maybe there's a setting i'm missing.
hiiii, i've used your picom config file but i didn't get the blur animation .... and also when i use --experimental-backends... my system has a lag until i close that process, why's that ?
How to remove top bar of the terminal..??
very helpfull thanks
Is it possible to use nvim or vim without a blur/transparency window !? I Love Picom and blur but it makes rly hard when I start coding
pretty sure you can blacklist them, otherwise just program it yourself and make a pr
you can make the blur less noticeable or try to adjust a bit in the picom.conf file
Thank you guys... is has been 2 years and... im using Hyprland now :). a lot of things happened and right now im a linux expert :D
Which keyboard do you use, the sound is very smooth.
hey at 11:26 what are you using that shows you a preview of the hex code at the end of each line? looks really useful for configuring stuff at a glance.
its a vim plugin
I use VM when I chose glx and apply dual_kawase blur, screen freezes. I can move the cursor but I can't write or move or close any windows.
What theme are you using? I love it. It's so blue and clean
Tokyo Night everything, I love it
@@EricMurphyxyz Oh man that's amazing. I just setup my void Linux not too long ago with a Dracula theme I'm new to customization so I still don't know much. Honestly I want to just copy your whole dotfiles hahaha, blue is my favorite color so your setup really makes me excited.
@@danieleccleston7928 Copy as much as you'd like! Most of my dotfiles are pieced together from others' dotfiles as well haha
How do I switch composite manager ( / make it run on startup ) ?
Put it in your startup script. Are you using something like i3 or bspwm? There should be a config file/script you can add picom to.
@@EricMurphyxyz I'm on Gnome Ubuntu.
@@marlind2000 🤡☠️💀
great video friend, I would like to know if you can make this file available so I can edit these settings on my machine, and I would like to know the name of this launcher similar to dmenu
What's the name of that launcher you used in the intro?
It's rofi, I have a video on it here: ruclips.net/video/TutfIwxSE_s/видео.html
Make video on how to apply your theme on arch
Not sure why but blurring doesn't seem to work? I put the blur-strength to 10 but it didn't seem to make any noticeable difference, at least not like the difference it made in the video.
i'm from future and rounded corners normal works in bspwm :)
The future is now
How do i configure glx backend? When i use it the screen is buggy as if cut in half
How do I deal with the random glitches with picom?
Which glitches specifically?
what bugs? are the bugs covering the comment section on this comment?
@@RainbowShatterMusic ?
after watching your video , i was thinking if this is also work on gnome edition of arch ?
how do you do the predictive test? after you located the picom.conf.example text file, when you typed vim, you were able to press (whai i assume is) tab and the file location got put in. is it built in the terminal emulator or is a specific program?
It's zsh-autosuggestions, I have a full video on it here: ruclips.net/video/wHnMd8uz6j0/видео.html
i ran pkill picom and now i am having an error "input in flex scanner failed"
I ran pee kill pee cun and not i am having an error “shiz fuuukd cuh”
What window manager do you use?
bspwm, I might make a video about it one of these days
what terminal are you using
wallpaper?
i dont understand the installation. it didnt locate the picom.conf
if ur using arch u may just dont have this command. i dont have it for example
its because you need to make it and copy all of the contents in the example to your picom.conf that you just made (e.g. picom.conf.example -- copy over -> picom.conf )
Any chance you could do a ncmpcpp ricing video?
Planning on doing this in the future
It freeze my screen and the only way to fix that was to turn glx into xrender does your work still?
glx works for me, not sure what's going wrong. xrender still works, but you won't be able to use the dual_kawase blurring method.
@@EricMurphyxyz do you know any blurring method beside dual kawanese?
@@nosleep579 You could try the kernel method which doesn't require glx. But you should be able to use the glx backend. Are you using the most up-to-date version of picom from the GitHub? Which version are you using?
@@EricMurphyxyz I’m using the most recent version I think it’s a problem with my drivers or xorg. Which I’ve tried to troubleshoot and failed so I probably stick to xrender and hope one day it will be fixed.
@@EricMurphyxyz i found the answer it seems like virtualbox opengl might be outdated or something since vmware worked on a fresh install.
Can I know what is the font you're using
You can find your answer at 0:00 😛 It's JetBrains Mono
does this work on i3
Yup
i can't find config there is only picom.conf.example
@@вахидразбамбеков Make a new picom.conf file and copy the example into it
@@EricMurphyxyz i did thsnd
Others pronounce it as pycom. Like pi=3.14...
It's a combination of the words pico + compositor. Now we just need to figure out how pico is pronounced...
i want the code to copy paste bro cmon
its literally on his github
there's no picom config in your github can you provide this config if you still have it !!
See the Readme of my dotfiles on Github. I link to where you can find my old config files
“Peecom” 😂
Is it pronounced pie-com or pee-cum?
I'll let you know as soon as we figure out if it's pronounced gif or jif
@@EricMurphyxyz They are the same
i'm pretty sure its pie-com, it sounds a bit worse when you say "pee-cum"
Good grief...
Something wrong with the video?
yare yare daze
bro youre yapping toooo much
welcome to linux, shit aint simple
Thank you so much dude, very useful stuff