On Monday 01 June 2026 03:41:25 William Morder via tde-users wrote:
Suddenly, just within the past week or two, definitely since I reinstalled my OS, I am seeing this thing called compton-tde running always near the top of top. It doesn't seem to do anything special or new, yet it is new to me, always to be seeing it.
I thought, Well, it's been a long time since I really messed up my system, but I will fear no unknown software. So I killed the process, it disappeared, and I cannot detect any change in my system, except that compton-tde no longer appears in top.
I did do a search for compton<-without-tde>, but this tells me nothing more. It does something important, one supposes, but we know not what.
Bill
AI tells me "Compton X11 compositor, a lightweight program that provides window effects like shadows, transparency, and fading."
I don't see compton on the list of my running processes, maybe your X settings are different.
Thierry