[SOLVED] Compton and i3-gaps screen tearing

gameboy9309 · 2017-04-14 17:45:16

Hi, I'm using i3-gaps with compton, and everything's been fine except vsync. On XFCE, it's just fine. No screen tearing at all. But on i3, there's a ton of it. Not sure why it's like that but if anyone could help, I'd really appreciate it. My GPU is AMD Radeon HD 6480G and I'm using xf86-video-ati as the driver. Here's my compton.conf: https://pastebin.com/7209Ez3h

Thanks

Last edited by gameboy9309 (2017-04-15 04:24:56)

onslow77 · 2017-04-14 19:09:39

Hello!

I have three questions:
- How do you load compton when you use i3-gaps?
- Have you tried diffrent vsynch options in compton.conf?
- What happens if you load a minimum compton.conf in i3-gaps just to fix screen tearing, for example:

compton.conf

backend = "glx";
paint-on-overlay = true;
glx-no-stencil = true;
vsync = "opengl-swc";

Regards
Martin

Last edited by onslow77 (2017-04-14 19:16:43)

gameboy9309 · 2017-04-14 19:19:22

Hi!

1. compton --backend glx --vsync opengl-swc

2. Yes. All of them.

3. Does the exact same thing. D:

onslow77 · 2017-04-14 20:30:03

gameboy9309 wrote:

Hi!
1. compton --backend glx --vsync opengl-swc

Do you meen that you use the above at the commandline? If so, you do not use your "compton.conf" file. I suggest you put a line in your ".xinitrc" instead, like this:

compton --config ~/.config/compton.conf -b

Regards
Martin

gameboy9309 · 2017-04-14 20:47:32

I put it in my i3 config to autostart.

onslow77 · 2017-04-14 21:23:26

gameboy9309 wrote:

I put it in my i3 config to autostart.

Ok, that is fine according to Arch I3 wiki. But (correct me if I am wrong) you are not using your "compton.conf" file since you are not referring to it. This line: "compton --backend glx --vsync opengl-swc" only tells compton to run with the "backend glx and vsync opengl-swc" options

Try to use the ".xinitrc" method instead with a minimal "compton.conf" like I described in post 2 and 4 and see if it makes a difference.

Update: Remember to reboot your X session so that your changes are picked up!

Regards
Martin

Last edited by onslow77 (2017-04-15 03:37:29)

gameboy9309 · 2017-04-14 23:23:36

I'll get back to you when I get to my PC. Thanks for the help so far.

gameboy9309 · 2017-04-15 04:00:41

onslow77 wrote:

gameboy9309 wrote:
I put it in my i3 config to autostart.
Ok, that is fine according to Arch I3 wiki. But (correct me if I am wrong) you are not using your "compton.conf" file since you are not referring to it. This line: "compton --backend glx --vsync opengl-swc" only tells compton to run with the "backend glx and vsync opengl-swc" options
Try to use the ".xinitrc" method instead with a minimal "compton.conf" like I described in post 2 and 4 and see if it makes a difference.
Update: Remember to reboot your X session so that your changes are picked up!
Regards
Martin

I did everything you said to do except the xinitrc part. Xinitrc won't run since I have a login manager. So I ran it in my i3 config if that's fine. Still does the same thing. Tearing.

EDIT: TL;DR basically I was stupid and disabled hardware acceleration a while back on Chromium. So basically only the browser had tearing. Thanks so much for helping though. Appreciate it!

Last edited by gameboy9309 (2017-04-15 04:22:57)

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[SOLVED] Compton and i3-gaps screen tearing

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