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[member=47]Scott[/member] you're most welcome!


Here goes another tweak I will be committing to UnlockMe @Github soon:


Compton Compositor - Compton Compositor for beautiful tear free compositing in Xfce


This is the one display compositor that has saved my old machines running Linux Lite. The default compositor does not provide tear free compositing for many old (and some new) video cards, e.g.: Intel G33 or Nvidia 9800GT in my case. With Compton, there is not only beautiful and lightweight animations in LL but also a really nice tear free compositing in Xfce - no more choppy Youtube videos... the other route is compiz but that's an entire different beast.


I've read posts in the forum from users asking how to install and configure compton. While the installation is not difficult at all, the configuration is what makes compton usable. So, UnlockMe tweak will handle this out of the box


What the tweak does:
- Installs compton and provides a functional/tested/optimized configuration out of the box.
- It disables the default compositor during installation (if enabled) to prevent display compositing conflicts.
- Compton configuration is installed and available for all user accounts on install.
- Compton Autostart is installed and available for all user accounts. Each user account can enable or disable compton compositor individually.
- Elevation is only required for install/uninstall. It uses pkexec so that it can be installed or removed from any account with proper elevation.
- When user enables compton it sets itself to autostart. When disabled, it removes itself from the autostart to prevent conflicts with other display compositor the user may enable.
- If compton was installed prior to UnlockMe, a configuration file will be set for the user in those cases if it doesn't exists.
- GUI displays Compton status Enabled/Disabled and hints whether it is set for Autostart or not.


Now we can just point and click to get it all done and done. No more copying config files after installing compton, no more manually adding autostart. The list keeps on growing














What's not included but already in my ToDo's:
- Option to backup compton configuration
- Better detection of compton config - Instead of installing the config included in UnlockMe, prompt the user if a previous compton config exists and provide options to backup the previous config or to overwrite it.
- GUI to manage compton parameters (this is way down at the bottom of the list because each config file can be directly edited by the user with no admin privileges required).


I'm pushing it up to github by the end of the day  ;D


Cheers!