toggle between xfwm compositor and picom compositor

this is a script i made to toggle between xfwm's lightweight compositor and picom, which is beautiful but a bit resource intensive. it could be used as a template for toggling between any two processes. download here.

    #!/bin/bash

switch_to_xfce() {

	    kill $(ps aux | grep '[p]icom' | awk '{print $2}')

	    sleep 0.5

	    xfconf-query -c xfwm4 -p /general/use_compositing -s true

	    echo "okay, switched to xfce compositor"

}

switch_to_picom() {

	    xfconf-query -c xfwm4 -p /general/use_compositing -s false

	    sleep 0.5

	    nohup picom --experimental-backend 0/dev/null 2>/dev/null &

	    echo "okay, switched to picom compositor"

}

if [[ $(ps aux | grep -ic '[p]icom') -eq 1 ]]; then

	    switch_to_xfce

 else

	    switch_to_picom

fi

surrounding the [p] in picom stops grep from finding its own process. nohup is there to divorce picom's process from the terminal so it keeps running after it's closed and the dev/null stuff is to suppress the message it outputs (nohup: ignoring input and appending output to 'nohup.out') which is irrelevant here.

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toggle between xfwm compositor and picom compositor