Anno domini 2026 Mon, 1 Jun 08:04:27 +0200 Thierry de Coulon via tde-users scripsit:
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."
It's the good old composition manager that's responsibe for "real" transparency and most of all dropshadows. It comes from the times of wobbeling windows and turning cube deskop switchers ... IMO it's enabled when you use "real" transparency for konsol etc. If you don't need dropshadows then diable all dropshadow stuff in kcontrol and killl comptopn-tde :) Oh, there are two kinds of dropshadows in kontrol, don't remember which one to use ...
Description: compositor for X11, based on xcompmgr compton is a compositor for X11, based on xcompmgr. In addition to shadows, fading and translucency, compton implements window frame opacity control, inactive window transparency, and shadows on argb windows. Homepage: https://github.com/chjj/compton Tags: role::program, x11::composite-manager
Nik
I don't see compton on the list of my running processes, maybe your X settings are different.
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