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HowTo: Disable Compton

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Ken Gilmer edited this page Oct 19, 2019 · 1 revision

Compton is a program that adds some visual effects to the desktop. It is not necessary for the desktop to function and can act erratically with some computer configurations. Disabling it is simple:

  1. Stage your own i3 config file and open ~/.config/regolith/i3/config in your editor of choice.
  2. Find the line which launches compton, looking something like exec --no-startup-id compton -f --config $compton_config. Comment out or remove the line.
  3. Log out and back in to the Regolith session. You can verify compton is not running via
    $ ps aux | grep compton

Since most of this wiki content was created, a new site for Regolith was created. This wiki content was written for Regolith 1.2 but most of it still applies to 1.3. However, it is suggested to first check if the information you are looking for is here.

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