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Hello,
I have important screen tearing which bothers me everytime I watch a video or even sometimes when I scroll down in firefox.
I've searched how to fix this problem but I've failed to find a solution.
I ended up by removing intel drivers and now I use modsetting but I still have the problem.
Last edited by leboulec (2018-01-06 02:07:16)
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what desktop environment do you use? also try turning off "smooth scrolling" in firefox cause its just anoying even without tearing.
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I'm using xfce with compton. I can't browse without smooth scrolling, it's too anoying for me
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i thought you might be using xfce, i sorted this exact problem yesterday as i too got rid of the xf86-video-intel drivers to try and sort another problem i was having which i wont go into, anyway so using the modesetting driver and xfce4's compositor you get tearing so i tried a whole bunch of things and what worked was installing the xfwm4-git package from the aur which is a newer version of the xfce window manager which uses a different method of compositing and all the tearing was gone, only downside is it uses gtk3 instead of gtk2 for themeing so i had to mess around with my themes too.
yea so give it a go, get rid of compton and try the newer xfwm4, link to aur here: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xfwm4-git/
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The problem is that I don't want to get rid of compton. But I'll give it a try anyway
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So thank you, it works. But as I said, it would be better if I could still use compton, I use it for specific effects that I can't make with xfwm4
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try compton with xfwm4-git, might just work ? cant hurt to try
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I can't launch two composite managers in the same time. When I launch compton, the tearing is still here
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Well it seems to be an issue related to compton, so I'll close the thread
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o ok so compton tears reguardless of the version of xfwm4, was worth a try
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