animations

[absolutelynothelix]

since there are multiple open issues requesting animations i decided to group them into a single issue to have a more or less centralized discussion, ease the progress tracking and reduce the amount of open issues.

there is also a thread in the #development channel on the discord server to ease the communication between developers interested in implementing animations.

feel free to reserve one of the first posts in this issue if you're interested in structuring it even more.

related issues:

• Animation support #217;
• [Feature/Pull request] Add BlackCapCoder's window animation code. #420;
• [Feature Request] Sliding animations for workspace switches. #635;
• [Feature Request] Need help testing animations #1052;
• [Feature Request] Add wobble as a animation #1115;
• [Feature Request] Include animations based on https://github.com/FT-Labs/picom or personal #1116.

related discussions:

• todo.

related pull requests:

• Adding transition (cleanup) #766;
• Implement window animations #772;
• Animation PR #1032;
• @FTLabs generalanimation branch merged with next with original git history and compiling (Animation PR) #1109.

forks that implement animations:

• todo.

feel free to post here or ping me on the discord server about additions to the lists above.

[ghost]

Forks that implements animation:
https://github.com/pijulius/picom (Best animation)
https://github.com/jonaburg/picom {Slight animation changes}
https://github.com/FT-Labs/picom (Intended for his own fork of dwm)
https://github.com/fdev31/picom (Fork of FT-Labs Picom which somewhat work better than FT-Labs picom)
Thats all i can remember lol

[dccsillag]

... and mine, https://github.com/dccsillag/picom, which is what pijulius, FT-Labs and fdev31 forked from (and what the long-standing PR #772 was from).

[ghost]

Oh yeah i kinda forgot about yours.... Thanks for reminding me though :D

[NotMurPh]

i can't check out the discord thread, looks like the invitation link has expired! i would be happy to hear an update about picom animations 🫠

[absolutelynothelix]

i can't check out the discord thread, looks like the invitation link has expired!

thanks for pointing out. i copied it from the discord badge in the readme but it turned out that it wasn't updated when it was changed so i updated it both in the readme and here.

i would be happy to hear an update about picom animations 🫠

unfortunately, there are no updates.

[allusive-dev]

Still want animation support.

Done.

Here is my public, actively maintained, on the AUR fork of pijulius picom.

Now on NixOS and Nixpkgs and I am always looking to add new features.

Links:

https://github.com/allusive-dev/picom-allusive
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Picom_Allusive
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/picom-allusive
NixOS

[yshui]

Hi, I want to quickly ( 🤞 ) merge animation support after v11 release (which should be in the next few weeks, again 🤞 ).

looks like @FT-Labs' fork is the most comprehensive one? so maybe i will consolidate all the PR's around that.

now, I realized I never asked if @FT-Labs wants to merge their branch into this repo, i just assumed they do 😅 I will still do this either way (these are all open source after all), but if @FT-Labs wants to, we can work together and sort this all out faster than I can with only current picom developers.

[yshui]

And if @FT-Labs's fork has missing features, or there is another fork I need to look at, or something, please leave a comment.

[yshui]

And I would definitely appreciate @dccsillag's help as well if he has more time and is able to.

[FT-Labs]

Hello @yshui,

Yes, I'm totally up for it. That would be great, because this is a work that needs more than 1 person. Any help would be appreciated, I would be glad to explain what I have done until now and explain all of the steps.

[jasper-at-windswept]

@yshui
I've forked the next branch and implemented the animations from Compfy which came from pijulius which are modified from dccsilag.
If you want me to make a PR let me know.
https://github.com/jasper-at-windswept/picom

[dccsillag]

And I would definitely appreciate @dccsillag's help as well if he has more time and is able to.

I'd be happy to help. (Still a bit strained for time, though!)

[zeorin]

I tried out @jasper-at-windswept's fork because I was curious, and the animations are cool, but the following would need some work, imo:

• interaction with shaders, currently the shader is unapplied and then only reapplies a bit after the animation has finished.
• interaction with blur and shadows, currently the shadows lag behind the actual window's animation and the space in between blurred.
• interaction with mouse-driven changes to window position and size

It would also be great to be able to set all animation settings using rules, rather than only being able to exclude windows from opening and unmapping animations. This would allow one tweak animations in a very fine-grained way, it'd be great for e.g. menus, docks, launchers, notifications, etc.

Here is a recording (i3wm):

picom-animations.mp4

For reference, my config is here: https://github.com/zeorin/dotfiles/blob/07f0c9bf789f8baebc40afd3b06c5586b7a0caf8/home-manager/home.nix#L2618-L2803

[yshui]

@jasper-at-windswept I intend to take from @FT-Labs 's fork, as IIUC it is the most up-to-date version.

[yshui]

Hello @yshui,

Yes, I'm totally up for it. That would be great, because this is a work that needs more than 1 person. Any help would be appreciated, I would be glad to explain what I have done until now and explain all of the steps.

Hi, can you open a PR from your branch?

[jasper-at-windswept]

@jasper-at-windswept I intend to take from @FT-Labs 's fork, as IIUC it is the most up-to-date version.

No problem. Looking forward to animations in v11!

[XoDefender]

Also feel free to try out my fork, it is based on FT-Labs and has animation customization throughout: rules, xprop, wintypes. May be helpful to take particular parts from it (https://github.com/XoDefender/picom)

[Mateoo303]

@XoDefender your fork is really awesome! I gave it a star. There is only one problem with it. It has a bug: when only one window is opened on workspace then it doesn't have rounded corenes. As soon as I open another window corners become rounded. I would really appreciate it if you could fix it.

[kashyap-akash]

I've been using this fork of picom for a long time and it has a lot of good animations, and it's really light weight.
https://github.com/allusive-dev/compfy

A little preview

compfy-2024-04-20_21.55.36.mp4

[yshui]

hi, can anyone give the new animation PR a try? #1253

[Icy-Thought]

@yshui managed to fix the issue I was facing earlier and now the animations works as intended! And what I have to say is that they are as smooth as it gets. No hiccups as of now and I am digging the appear/disappear animation! xD