compton: 0.1_beta2.5 -> 6.2

[JohnAZoidberg]

Motivation for this change

Many new releases:

• https://github.com/yshui/compton/releases/tag/v5.1
• https://github.com/yshui/compton/releases/tree/v6
• https://github.com/yshui/compton/releases/tree/v6.2

Maintainers: @ertes @Enzime @Twey

Things done

I'm using it with the NixOS module and its default settings. Seems fine so far, running all day today.

• Tested using sandboxing (nix.useSandbox on NixOS, or option sandbox in nix.conf on non-NixOS)
• Built on platform(s)
  • NixOS
  • macOS
  • other Linux distributions
• Tested via one or more NixOS test(s) if existing and applicable for the change (look inside nixos/tests)
• Tested compilation of all pkgs that depend on this change using nix-shell -p nix-review --run "nix-review wip"
• Tested execution of all binary files (usually in ./result/bin/)
• Determined the impact on package closure size (by running nix path-info -S before and after)
• Assured whether relevant documentation is up to date
• Fits CONTRIBUTING.md.

[c0bw3b]

The module is using the old compton and not compton-git by default?
I guess it will be hard to maintain a common module if they start using distinct options...

IMHO we should keep only the maintained fork from yshui repo and call it compton
It's already the source for compton pkg in Arch / Mageia / Void for example.

[JohnAZoidberg]

Yes, that seems reasonable.
I checked that the new derivation is exactly the same as the previous compton-git - only pname is different. With that at its old value it doesn't rebuild.

[c0bw3b]

Add an alias compton-git = compton to avoid breaking existing users' configs

[Ma27]

The change (and the measures to retain backwards compatibility) seem fine 👍

Tested against my local compton config (which is basically the default config with two opacity rules).

[c0bw3b]

Ah nice to have a feedback from an actual compton user, thanks @Ma27

[infinisil]

On a related note, I'm excited for yshui/picom#32

[eadwu]

Effectively breaks some configs since compton doesn't seem to take well of duplicate settings (wintypes).

[JohnAZoidberg]

Oh you mean if you have wintypes in your extraConfig?
What do you have there?
It would be fixed if we add extraWintypesConfig?

[infinisil]

The idea in NixOS/rfcs#42 would solve this rather well

[eadwu]

Yes, for example in compton.sample.conf from the repository. extraWintypesConfig would fix it.

wintypes:
{
  tooltip = { fade = true; shadow = true; opacity = 0.75; focus = true; full-shadow = false; };
  dock = { shadow = false; }
  dnd = { shadow = false; }
  popup_menu = { opacity = 0.8; }
  dropdown_menu = { opacity = 0.8; }
};