Picom

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picom is a standalone compositor for Xorg, suitable for use with window managers that do not provide compositing. picom is a fork of compton, which is a fork of xcompmgr-dana, which in turn is a fork of xcompmgr.

Installation

Put the following line into your system or home-manager config to install picom and enable it's service:

services.picom.enable = true;

If you just want to install picom without automatically running it every time your system boots, use this instead:

packages.picom.enable = true;

Troubleshooting

Issues with Nvidia proprietary drivers

See Nvidia#Fix_app_flickering_with_Picom