On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 09:33:57PM +0200, Omar Polo wrote:
> This is a port for picom, a compositor for X11. It's an actively
> developed fork of compton.
>
> I've been running for a month now, and it has been rock stable (instead
> of compton which would occasionally crash.)
Rock stable here too after running for about one hour... But that is
WITH glx and box/gaussian background blur, options that would make
compton really mess things up on my (rather old) hardware.
Thank you for this port!
Erling
> Build and tested on amd64, passes port-lib-depends-check and portcheck.
$ sysctl | grep vers
kern.version=OpenBSD 6.7-current (GENERIC.MP) #197: Mon May 18 11:00:29 MDT 2020
$ dmesg | grep drm
radeondrm0 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "ATI Radeon HD 5770" rev 0x00
drm0 at radeondrm0
radeondrm0: msi
radeondrm0: 1920x1080, 32bpp
wsdisplay0 at radeondrm0 mux 1: console (std, vt100 emulation), using wskbd0
> A couple of notes about the patches:
>
> - (AFAIK) the project was recently renamed from "compton" to "picom",
> that's the reason they install some files that can conflict with
> x11/compton (like the bin/compton{,-trans} links to
> bin/picom{,-trans}). I've removed (and/or renamed) them to avoid the
> conflict, since I wanted to have them both installed side-by-side
>
> - moved the manpage from the (port) default share/man/man1 to
> man/man1
>
> - the patch-src_meson_build is an hack to avoid a meson error I cannot
> understand
>
> Cheers!
