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CooKiECruNChEr43

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Disabling picom at the start (boot) [Solved]

I have installed Bunsenlabs Carbon virtually with virt-manager. But apparently, pico doesn't work well with a virtual installation. I couldn't see my typed text. The preferences window in XFCE4 terminal gave me a screenshot of that same terminal. In short, it was a mess.

Using the command: pkill pico did the trick. I can do everything now.

Now I want to ensure that pico doesn't run at startup. I was able to find the file: ~/.config/bunsen/autostart. Problem is that pico isn't mentioned there.

My question: how to disable pico at the start?

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PackRat

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Re: Disabling picom at the start (boot) [Solved]

Remove the ~/.config/picom.desktop file if it exists. There is also a /etc/xdg/autostart/picom.desktop.

If you'll only be using carbon in a virtual installation, you can remove picom altogether.

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CooKiECruNChEr43

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Re: Disabling picom at the start (boot) [Solved]

I removed ~/.config/picom.config and the /etc/xdg/autostart/picom.desktop file and I was able to boot perfectly. Thanks.

PackRat

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Re: Disabling picom at the start (boot) [Solved]

Good.

Can you edit your title and posts so they read "picom"instead of "pico", please.

That way the thread shows in forum search results. And, as I recall pico was a text editor similar to nano.

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Re: Disabling picom at the start (boot) [Solved]

To disable compositing - and be able to bring it back in the future if you want - the clean way is to comment out this line in ~/.config/bunsen/autostart :

bl-compositor --start

Put a # at the front of the line.
bl-compositor will start picom, or compton, whichever is installed.

~/.config/autostart/picom.desktop exists to prevent picom from autostarting via its .desktop file in /etc/xdg/autostart/ so that the bl-compositor script has control.

Removing ~/.config/picom.conf (not picom.config) will cause picom - if it's started - to fall back to its default configuration, with unknown effects.

As @PackRat says, if you never want to use picom, then just uninstall it.

The problem with picom on a virtual machine is described in more detail in the Carbon release notes: https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 10#p148610
See "NOTE for Virtual Machine users" at the bottom. Options are:
1) disable composition
2) adjust the Virtual Machine configs
3) use compton instead of picom

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CooKiECruNChEr43

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Re: Disabling picom at the start (boot) [Solved]

I see that the title of the post has already been changed. Thank you for your answers.

PackRat

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Re: Disabling picom at the start (boot) [Solved]

To disable compositing - and be able to bring it back in the future if you want - the clean way is to comment out this line in ~/.config/bunsen/autostart :

bl-compositor --start

Put a # at the front of the line.
bl-compositor will start picom, or compton, whichever is installed.

Thanks. Going blind; I didn't see that line when I checked.

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