On Thu, 2024-01-25 at 14:09 +0000, Tomas Janousek wrote:
> Hi Phil,
> On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 12:28:56PM +0000, Phil Wyett wrote:
> > I am interested in 'compton' and would like to adopt it and remove a small part of the
> > QA
> > Teams workload from them.
> > […]
> > I use this package now daily as an alternative to the in built XFCE compositor, so the
> > health of this package is important to me.
> I'm wondering whether you're aware of https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/picom, which is an
> actively maintained fork of compton (although, IME, with a focus on being pretty rather
> than on quality and performance).
> It's more or less a drop-in replacement for compton, so it should be super easy for you
> to try it out for a few days. Personally I've had all sorts of trouble with it in the
> past (memory leaks, flicker, and a massive performance degradation that still hasn't
> been fixed despite being reported years ago 1), so I've been using
> https://github.com/liskin/compton/tree/debian/sid, which is a somewhat random snapshot
> from a time where everything I need works and nothing is broken yet.
> Just thought it'd be useful to fill you in, in case you haven't heard about picom.
> Regards,
> --
>
> Tomáš "liskin" ("Pivník") Janoušek, https://lisk.in/
Hi Tomas,
Yes, I am aware of picom because it is wrongly a 'Recommends' (installed when you install
compton) for compton.[1]
As you have experienced, it is flaky and has some weird bugs that I myself started to list
and then gave up. The final straw was when it came to picom on a basic configuration
triggered higher CPU usage and my fan to turn on and never turn off every time I started
vscode. Closing vscode left the fan running, but I was not interested in debugging it.
In my experience also, compton 1 is an easier and more stable package in Debian than
picom. For this reason I have decided to adopt it as it replaces the also flaky in-built
compositor of xfce for me.
The package will have the deprecation/removal warning in 'd/control' removed; and addition
to 'oldlibs' removed. Other updates will take place to the packaging to bring it up to
today's Debian. This package has value and will be maintained by myself accordingly.
If you have any bugs with Debian's compton. Please file bugs against the package and I
will look at them.
[1] The 'Recommends' will be removed. These are separate X11 compositors.
Regards
Phil
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