Compton kawase blur not working Only recently I discovered that apparently nowadays picom, the official fork of compton (which itself was a fork of xcompmgr-dana), finally includes dual This fork contains more of a proof-of-concept than a polished implementation of the dual-filter kawase blur. \nAs of Aug, 31st 2020, picom comes with a better optimized and polished implementationof the dual This branch includes a new blur method: The multi-pass dual kawase blur!\nUse it with the --blur-method kawaseand --blur-strength LEVELoptions. But the convolution of a box filter with a box filter is a triangle filter (like bilinear). Has anyone successfully gotten compton tyrone (one with kawase blur) working on F30? Has anyone successfully gotten compton tyrone (one with kawase blur) working on F30? A guide to setting up kawase window blur with picom (new name for compton). ######## Dependence ######## XFCE: Compton (Kawase Blur) xdg-open Jul 14, 2020 · there is no need to have opacity rules for them. org/packages/picom-tryone-git/Github: https://github. A box filter by itself kind of sucks. It provides compositing for WM that do not provide any, such as i3. \nAs of Aug, 31st 2020, picom comes with a better optimized and polished implementationof the dual Feb 14, 2020 · The old options can still be supported for compatability, of course, but for example I don't really like how compton with kawase uses certain --blur options, but not others, or how there seems to be an -exclude = [] for every single feature. EDIT Mar 26, 2021 · The Official Picom Repo: This is the official repo of Picom, which is used during a normal install The Ibhagwan Git: This a fork of Compton which also allows for rounded corners and dual_kawase blur The Tryone Git: Picom fork with dual_kawase blur, an X compositor (fork of Compton) The Jonaburg Git: Picom fork with tryone144 ‘s dual_kawase blur and ibhagwan ‘s rounded corners, an X Available choices are: none to disable blurring; gaussian for gaussian blur; box for box blur; kernel for convolution blur with a custom kernel; dual_kawase for dual-filter kawase blur. kawase는 blur 효과를 주기 위한 알고리즘의 이름이다. And remember that convolution is associative. config/compton/config? Any other ideas? Fixed: original answer seems to be deleted. Here is a screenshot of termite, thunar and rofi pulled up on my screen. I think there's one other package but this is the only one I know of on the arch AUR repos. Only works with the glx backend! I am trying to blur the background and so installed the kawase Compton. Sep 4, 2025 · 9 commentsOn CPU, one approach that I've used is to approximate large Gaussian blurs by iterating box blurs. I am currently using ibhagwan’s fork of compton which provides the dual-kawase blur from tryone’s compton and rounded corners from sdhand’s compton. conf and some friend config abdipn@indoxploit:~$ compton --backend glx --config ~/. Compton Compton is a compositor for X, and a fork of xcompmgr-dana. work! I remember back when dual-kawase was the new hot shit, we used to package forks of compton just for that blur effect, I even ran my own fork back then. \nOnly works with the glxbackend! This fork contains more of a proof-of-concept than a polished implementation of the dual-filter kawase blur. \nAs you may have noticed, the development on compton seems to have halted. \nAs of Aug, 31st 2020, picom comes with a better optimized and polished implementationof the dual Jan 27, 2021 · Hello guys I have been trying to get compton to work with my bspwm and it seems taht it doesnt do anyhing at all when i launch it. \nOnly works with the glxbackend!. Picom is the successor to Compton, a standalone compositor for Xorg. The problem is that enabling blur Sep 3, 2025 · Only recently I discovered that apparently nowadays picom, the official fork of compton (which itself was a fork of xcompmgr-dana), finally includes dual-kawase blur by default. May 1, 2012 · The latter lacks the kawase blur filter (https://github. \nOnly works with the glxbackend! Jul 13, 2020 · Describe the issue My bar is translucent, and when a blur effect is applied with compton, and the wallpaper changes polybar does not always update Expected behavior: For polybar to display correctly Actual behavior: Was it working before This fork contains more of a proof-of-concept than a polished implementation of the dual-filter kawase blur. It's replacement is a fork called picom. there is still no dual kawase blur method in picom. conf Error I've been tussling around with compton-tryone-git to get the kawase blur working with my i3-gaps setup. conf not work on ubuntu | XFCE *i've done use sample. First off, I had a rough time figuring out that apparently you need this fork of compton called compton-tryone-git which you can get here if you want that kawase blur. archlinux. Hello! The problem is that enabling blur with the newer picom fork is a little bit of a hassle and doesn't work on most hardware but fear not there is a solution. Only works with the glx backend! Command for testing: compton --backend glx --blur-method kawase --blur-strength 20 Do I need to specify the config file, which I positioned at ~/. My little rofi menu pops up and seems to applying the blur but termite, and thunar just don't work. \nAs of Aug, 31st 2020, picom comes with a better optimized and polished implementationof the dual Sep 3, 2025 · Great interactive illustrations and write up on how the Dual-Kawase blur et al. conf so far; I use it for Openbox and i3; I commented out the blur lines because it doesn't work (actually, it does work but the effect is very slight, the blur-stregth value doesn't make any change): There is a fork of compton by the github user tryone (on aur it's called compton-tryone or compton-tryone-git I think), that allows for kawase blur and should be what you're looking for. This branch includes a new blur method: The multi-pass dual_kawase blur! Use it with the --blur-method dual_kawase and --blur-strength LEVEL options. there was no dual kawase blur method in compton, you've been using tryone144's fork. Convolving a triangle filter with another box filter gets you a quadratic approximation to a Gaussian, etc Jan 16, 2023 · In my opinion, any transparency underneath text is useless without a blur effect, because background text or complex high-contrast hard-line images makes the text over the transparency difficult to read. co Nov 20, 2018 · compton. com/yshui/compton/issues/32) like the chjj version, but you never specified that a certain blur algorithm is missing, you only suggested that blurring failed (altogether) which isn't the case. Only works with the glx backend! Jun 24, 2019 · Blur 효과를 활성화하려면 반드시 다음 설정도 들어가야 한다. I've failed miserable in every imaginable way someone could fail at doing something. Shadows The following enables client-side shadows on windows. Compton is a compositor for X, and a fork of xcompmgr-dana. \npicomis a compton-fork that is actively maintained and has superseeded compton in most distributions already. now it's configured like this (iirc): I also installed the compton-tryone-git with yay -Syu compton-tryone-git. \nOnly works with the glxbackend! This branch includes a new blur method: The multi-pass dual kawase blur!\nUse it with the --blur-method kawaseand --blur-strength LEVELoptions. \nAs of Aug, 31st 2020, picom comes with a better optimized and polished implementationof the dual Compton Compton is a compositor for X, and a fork of xcompmgr-dana. Since the day that I started using Linux I've been using transparency with my terminal but recently someone got me interested in window blur so here we are. The blur is great, but once I switch to another workspace, the blur is staying during the fading, and abruptly disappears once the fading is done. Only works with the glx backend! Compton Compton is a compositor for X, and a fork of xcompmgr-dana. This fork contains more of a proof-of-concept than a polished implementation of the dual-filter kawase blur. Use in the terminal (for test purposes): compton --backend glx --blur-method kawase --blur-background --blur-strength 20 Maybe "Kawase Blur Compton" works on mint?! I used it once before on Arch but can't recall if it's available for mint or not. Note desktop windows (windows with _NET_WM Here is my compton. compton. I'm also attaching a few more screenshots here and here. AUR: https://aur. Nov 7, 2021 · Kawase is not supported in this branch. Compton has been dead since 2017. blur-strength는 1~20 사이의 값을 주면 된다고 되어 있다. you have to use tryone144's fork of picom if you want to use dual kawase blur method. I too can't stop fanboying over 3b1b's illustration style. I'm having an awful time getting the kawase blur to be applied. Only works with the glx backend! This branch includes a new blur method: The multi-pass dual kawase blur!\nUse it with the --blur-method kawaseand --blur-strength LEVELoptions. Please implement a blur effect for transparent backgrounds in Cinnamon! This fork contains more of a proof-of-concept than a polished implementation of the dual-filter kawase blur. \nAs of Aug, 31st 2020, picom comes with a better optimized and polished implementationof the dual This fork contains more of a proof-of-concept than a polished implementation of the dual-filter kawase blur. ckznr or333 7n3 snehi0 m4n rs2v hoz fxes pk o1up