

when autostarting for a window manager such as Openbox) -b: Run as a background process for a session (e.g.There are also several optional arguments that may be used to tweak the compositing effects provided. Picom may be manually enabled or disabled at any time during a session, or autostarted as a background process for sessions. See also #Tabbed windows (shadows and transparency). To set opacity (in effect transparency) for focused and unfocused windows (for example terminal emulators), add the following to your nf: The other WINDOW_TYPE values that can be used are defined in the EWMH standard: unknown, desktop, dock, toolbar, menu, utility, splash, dialog, normal, dropdown_menu, popup_menu, tooltip, notification, combo, and dnd. To disable shadows for menus add the following to wintypes in nf: The shadow-exclude option can disable shadows for windows if required.

See picom(1) § CONFIGURATION FILES for details. To use another custom configuration file with picom, use the following command: For modifications, it can be copied to ~/.config/picom/nf or ~/.config/nf. The default configuration is available in /etc/xdg/nf. Install the picom package or picom-git AUR for the development version.
