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picom — Standalone compositor for Xorg. More information: <https://github.com/yshui/picom/blob/next/man/pico

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Problem

How to use the picom command: Standalone compositor for Xorg. More information: <https://github.com/yshui/picom/blob/next/man/picom.1.adoc>.

Solution

picom — Standalone compositor for Xorg. More information: <https://github.com/yshui/picom/blob/next/man/picom.1.adoc>.

Enable picom during a session:

picom &

Start picom as a background process:

picom {{[-b|--daemon]}}

Use a custom configuration file:

picom --config {{path/to/config_file}}

Code Snippets

Enable `picom` during a session

picom &

Start `picom` as a background process

picom {{[-b|--daemon]}}

Use a custom configuration file

picom --config {{path/to/config_file}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/picom

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