Bug 15313

Summary:	compton package request (or substitute old xcompmgr)
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Pavel Kreuzt <pkreuzt>
Component:	New RPM package request	Assignee:	All Packagers <pkg-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal	CC:	aurelienmurith, saptech, tarakbumba
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://github.com/chjj/compton
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:		CVE:
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Description Pavel Kreuzt 2015-02-18 05:07:54 CET

Compton is a compositor for X, and a fork of xcompmgr-dana.

I was frustrated by the low amount of standalone lightweight compositors. Compton was forked from Dana Jansens' fork of xcompmgr and refactored. I fixed whatever bug I found, and added features I wanted. Things seem stable, but don't quote me on it. I will most likely be actively working on this until I get the features I want. This is also a learning experience for me. That is, I'm partially doing this out of a desire to learn Xlib.

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Comment 1 Aurélien Murith 2016-07-20 19:56:43 CEST

Compton is very useful, for example for people having screen tearing problems with the default compositor of their desktop.

Could it be packaged for Mageia ?
Thanks.

CC: (none) => aurelienmurith

Comment 2 Aurélien Murith 2016-10-11 00:28:57 CEST

Could you please package compton and compton-conf ?

MATE window compositor, marco, often causes tearing problems. Using compton solves the problem.

https://github.com/chjj/compton
https://github.com/lxde/compton-conf

Target Milestone: --- => Mageia 6

Comment 3 Samuel Verschelde 2016-10-11 08:43:22 CEST

Please don't set the target milestone by yourself. It is only for bugs or features that we decide to implement for the next release. This one, as important as it may be for you, doesn't qualify. It is a valid request but not more.

Assigning this package request to all packagers collectively. On a voluntary basis, one of them might want to integrate it to the distribution and maintain it for bug and security fixes.

You might also want to join the packager team to maintain this piece of software: see https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Becoming_a_Mageia_Packager

Target Milestone: Mageia 6 => ---
CC: (none) => tarakbumba
Assignee: bugsquad => pkg-bugs

Comment 4 Marja Van Waes 2016-11-02 09:29:04 CET

Sorry, bugs@ml and pkg-bugs@ml members, for the avalanche.

72 bugs with the "New RPM package request" component, had a severity of "normal" or more, which can lead to losing precious time when searching Bugzilla for bugs that urgently need to get fixed

Now mass-changing that to "enhancement", as it should be for package requests.

https://wiki.mageia.org/en/How_to_report_a_bug_properly#How_to_file_a_package_request

@ the reporter of this package request

Please check in http://madb.mageia.org/ whether this software did already get packaged, and close this bug report if it did.
Please do also close it if you find a package with the same purpose, that meets your needs.

Severity: normal => enhancement

Comment 5 Stephen Pettin 2017-07-10 02:04:22 CEST

I would like to see Compton packaged. It's not a high priority program but I would like to see it included, sometime once Mga6 is finally released.

https://github.com/chjj/compton

CC: (none) => saptech

Comment 6 sturmvogel 2022-03-12 15:07:51 CET

Last commit for this project was 5 years ago. The last issue entry states that "the development on compton has halted" and "In addition, it should be archived to further make it clear that asking for support here is a waste of time."

Closing WONT.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => WONTFIX

Comment 7 Aurélien Murith 2022-03-12 18:58:46 CET

Good move: I noticed Mageia repositories now offer picom, which is the successor of compton.