Composite Managers

Compositors for X11 windowing system are required for "true" transparency support. You run a compositor alongside awesome to enable transparency. An (incomplete) list of available composite managers:


 * compton – A bug-fixed fork of dcompmgr, which is a fork of xcompmgr
 * xcompmgr
 * compiz
 * Unagi
 * cairo-compmgr
 * compmgr