---
name: "picom-inspect"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "picom"
version: "13-2"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/picom-inspect"
---

# picom-inspect(1)

easily test your picom rules

## NAME

picom-inspect - easily test your picom rules

## SYNOPSIS

**picom-inspect** \[*OPTIONS*\]

## DESCRIPTION

**picom-inspect** matches your picom rules against a window of your choosing. It helps you test your rules, and shows you which ones of your rules (don’t) work.

## OPTIONS

**picom-inspect** accepts all options that **picom** does. Naturally, most of those options will not be relevant.

These are some of the options you might find useful (See [**picom**(1)](/picom/1.md) for descriptions of what they do):

**--config**, **--log-level**, **--log-file**, all the options related to rules.

**picom-inspect** also accepts some extra options:

- **--monitor**

  Keep **picom-inspect** running in a loop, and dump information every time something changed about a window.

## NOTES

**picom-inspect** is prototype right now. If you find any bug, for example, if rules are matched differently compared to **picom**, please submit bug reports to:

 \<https://github.com/yshui/picom\>

## RESOURCES

Homepage:  \<https://github.com/yshui/picom\>

## SEE ALSO

[**xcompmgr**(1)](/xcompmgr/1.md), [**picom**(1)](/picom/1.md)

## AUTHOR

Yuxuan Shui