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+Picom is a compositor for X, and a fork of compton (stuff will
+retain the original name inside the package).
+
+Out of frustration with the low count of standalone lightweight
+compositors, picom was forked from Dana Jansens' fork of xcompmgr
+and refactored. Bugs were fixed and features were added.
+
+*NOTE* when upgrading between different versions you might find
+that some options have changed values or have been deprecated or
+removed and picom fails to start: launch "picom" from a console,
+watch the error messages and edit your ~/.config/picom.conf
+accordingly (or start from scratch with a new one, if you prefer)