Uploaded December 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Have you ever wanted to have transparent windows in your window manager? Finished installing Arch Linux but want to have blurred backgrounds like MacOS? Rounded corners? Window shadows? Fading transitions? Get all this and more with picom/compton. Learn which picom fork to actually use, how to set up and configure, and get all the features you want and more so you can finally post your epic bspwm setup to /r/unixporn...

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0:00 Intro
1:17 Installation
4:41 Configuring picom
6:00 Changing the backend
6:34 Window transparency
9:04 Background blurring
12:20 Fade transitions
13:15 Window shadows
14:17 Rounded corners
15:25 Starting picom automatically
16:10 Conclusion