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karabaja4

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From: Croatia

Registered: 2008-09-14

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HOWTO: Tearing free Openbox with NVIDIA

I'd just like to share what I managed to setup: tearing free Openbox (like Compiz).
What you need is nvidia binary driver and dcompmgr-git from AUR.

First, set vsync in nvidia config:

then, run dcompmgr with OpenGL:

dcompmgr --gl --no-fade

you should have no tearing now. To make the change permanent add these lines in Openbox autostart script:

# restore nvidia settings
nvidia-settings --load-config-only

# run compositing manager to avoid tearing
dcompmgr --gl --no-fade &

Cheers!

kokoko3k

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Registered: 2008-11-14

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Re: HOWTO: Tearing free Openbox with NVIDIA

How bad does this impact on graphic performance (eg: scrolling speed in browsers like firefox or chromium)?

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Mad Fish

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Registered: 2009-09-22

Posts: 295

Re: HOWTO: Tearing free Openbox with NVIDIA

Alternative: Apply this patch that I just made (or wait until it is included upstream, here is the bug report).

karabaja4

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From: Croatia

Registered: 2008-09-14

Posts: 1,018

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Re: HOWTO: Tearing free Openbox with NVIDIA

How bad does this impact on graphic performance (eg: scrolling speed in browsers like firefox or chromium)?

I haven't noticed any drawbacks so far.