joonas-fi / joonas-sys

My personal system installation (Ubuntu + programs & conf I use) as code.
https://joonas.fi/
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Graphics: eliminate tearing #9

Closed joonas-fi closed 3 years ago

joonas-fi commented 3 years ago

Issue was not in Compton, but X.org / X.org drivers.

It boggles the mind that tearing is on by default, and that you need to disable it with vendor-specific settings.

NVidia: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA/Troubleshooting#Avoid_screen_tearing

AMD: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AMDGPU#Tear_free_rendering

joonas-fi commented 3 years ago

Great video to test tearing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuXsupMuik4