Compton Composite on OpenBSD Howto - BSD

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cyberpunkz
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Hey I got compton working on OpenBSD 5.5

make sure you install gcc 4.8 from pkg_add

vi Makefile , remove the line -lrt (as OpenBSD has librt in libc)

sudo gmake CC=egcc
sudo gmake CC=egcc install

good to go!

Results - Screenshot to show it working

[Image: compton_on_openbsd_by_ipodpunker-d78zyj7.png]

Cheers! (I hope this helps anyone using OpenBSD, and want to use compton)
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Saos
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Nice! Glad you got it working.
yrmt
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Cool, thanks for the tip.
cyberpunkz
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thanks! More to come . . .

This is what I do in my irc freenode channel on #bsdgeekclub . Its mostly all about BSD systems!

and pretty much my youtube channel.

i'm GLAD this help some people.

compton is a very nice xcompmgr fork :)
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UNIX & VMS/VAX emulation simh: Ultrix 4.3BSD, WISC UNIX, OpenVMS 7.3, and
SunOS Solaris.
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Mafia
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Glad to see you got it working well.
zr0
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thanks for the help and it looks so nice
[Image: s0n1cy0uth_by_zr0-d7ov3z5.png]