Compton Composite Manager for LXDE

[tuxic]

Is it possible to install Compton (xcompmgr fork) on Siduction??? It's creating a lot a buzz,  specially with the Crunchbang community...

[piper]

Maybe have a look at

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/linux.debian.devel.mentors/LcJeBkh-OL8

Not sure it would work though, I don't have the time to test as of now

[DeepDayze]

I've tested Compton in Semplice (which is also based on Sid) and it works quite well on Openbox. The effects with Compton are similar to KDE's which is a nice touch

[tuxic]

Any suggestions on how to install it?  The package just arrived to the debian-mentors repo.
A simple tutorial would be nice...

[michaa7]

There is a *german* tutorial. As I did neither compile it myself nor use it I won't translate it, but mayby the commands are sufficent:
http://debianforum.de/forum/viewtopic.php?p=929109&sid=d4566f19b4933015834b28e06c57d310#p929109

There is a link to the respective binary. The author is using a wheezy/experimental mix (15.04.2013) which in my understanding shouldn't be too different from sid:
http://www.file-upload.net/download-7472006/compton_0.0.1-git-b3652f6-2013-03-03-1_i386.deb.html

[yossarian]

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apt-cache policy compton-git
compton-git:
 Installed: (none)
 Candidate: 20121102-2
 Version table:
    20121102-2 0
       200 http://packages.crunchbang.org/waldorf/ waldorf/main amd64 Packages

[seasons]

I run compton from git. I just git clone'd the repo, read the readme, got the listed -dev packages, and installed to /usr/local.

[tuxic]

I run compton from git. I just git clone'd the repo, read the readme, got the listed -dev packages, and installed to /usr/local.

Thankful! Special attention to installing ALL the dependencies and voila!!!

[tuxic]

Just an update--- Compton is now in the Debian Sid repos!!!

[dibl]

I installed it on my LXDE netbook.  I followed the Arch wiki to make a compton.conf file and put it in ~/.config/compton.conf.  I put the recommended startup script in ~/.local/share/autostart.  I must say lxterminal looks much nicer with transparency.  Beyond that, I haven't played much, but it seems to be working as expected.  Thanks tuxic!