compton software package provides compositor for X11, based on xcompmgr, you can install in your Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install compton
compton is installed in your system.
Make ensure the compton package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep compton *
You will get with compton package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 10 yakkety yak |
| Section | X Window System software |
| Package | compton |
| Version | 0.1~beta2+20150922-1 |
| Description | compositor for X11, based on xcompmgr |
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