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The Compton tool developed by the MX team is great. But still I noticed some screen tearing after enabling it.

The solution I found was to start Compton, not using the setting provided by the mentioned tool, but using this command instead:

Set to autostart:

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compton --backend glx --paint-on-overlay --vsync opengl-swc

This removes all screen tearing in video and scrolling.

Would you consider applying this in the future?

Thank you very much.

PS: I use a Mobility Radeon HD3650 with open source drivers

Hi everyone! It worked like a charm for me too! No screen tearing at all :)

Hurrah! My biggest gripe with Linux has been solved!

It works with my GeForce card.

Video tearing all but gone.

Please make this a standard startup for Compton, it works a treat.

DaGama wrote:The Compton tool developed by the MX team is great. But still I noticed some screen tearing after enabling it.

The solution I found was to start Compton, not using the setting provided by the mentioned tool, but using this command instead:

Set to autostart:

Code: Select all

compton --backend glx --paint-on-overlay --vsync opengl-swc

This removes all screen tearing in video and scrolling.

Would you consider applying this in the future?

Thank you very much.

PS: I use a Mobility Radeon HD3650 with open source drivers

Thanks very much for chasing this down and posting it here. We will certainly take a careful look at it.

I have got a humble spec PC - Intel Celeron G1610T 2.3GHz, GeForce GT 710 2GB DDR3 (Nouveau drivers), 8GB RAM.

The above Compton settings worked fine for removing video tearing but I still had some stutter when playing videos on YouTube etc.

I am a born tinkerer, so I decided to explore and test some of Compton's numerous settings, most are shown at https://github.com/chjj/compton/wiki/perf-guide.

After many attempts I have come up with a setup which totally eliminates tearing and drastically reduces video stutter. As a suggestion, would it be possible to give the Compton manager the option of 3 startup modes which can be set with something like checkboxes.

1) Default - Basic Compton startup (should work on all machines)
2) Faster - compton --backend glx --paint-on-overlay --vsync opengl-swc (should work on most machines)
3) Fastest - compton --backend glx --unredir-if-possible --glx-no-stencil --glx-no-rebind-pixmap --glx-swap-method buffer-age --vsync opengl-swc (might need a reasonably modern video card)

colin_b wrote:I have got a humble spec PC - Intel Celeron G1610T 2.3GHz, GeForce GT 710 2GB DDR3 (Nouveau drivers), 8GB RAM.

The above Compton settings worked fine for removing video tearing but I still had some stutter when playing videos on YouTube etc.

I am a born tinkerer, so I decided to explore and test some of Compton's numerous settings, most are shown at https://github.com/chjj/compton/wiki/perf-guide.

After many attempts I have come up with a setup which totally eliminates tearing and drastically reduces video stutter. As a suggestion, would it be possible to give the Compton manager the option of 3 startup modes which can be set with something like checkboxes.

1) Default - Basic Compton startup (should work on all machines)
2) Faster - compton --backend glx --paint-on-overlay --vsync opengl-swc (should work on most machines)
3) Fastest - compton --backend glx --unredir-if-possible --glx-no-stencil --glx-no-rebind-pixmap --glx-swap-method buffer-age --vsync opengl-swc (might need a reasonably modern video card)

thank you for the research! i'll take a look. i'll post bck any questions.

This has fixed my screen tearing intel duo e8600 cpu with integrated graphics. Using the old debian jessie package (I downgraded due to program crashes - seperate issue) but pretty sure it would work on the latest ones in the repository too. Excellent and simple fix.

I read the next version of xfce will have tearing fixed by default.

DaGama wrote:The Compton tool developed by the MX team is great. But still I noticed some screen tearing after enabling it.

The solution I found was to start Compton, not using the setting provided by the mentioned tool, but using this command instead:

Set to autostart:

Code: Select all

compton --backend glx --paint-on-overlay --vsync opengl-swc

This removes all screen tearing in video and scrolling.

Would you consider applying this in the future?

Thank you very much.

PS: I use a Mobility Radeon HD3650 with open source drivers

Hi!

Thank you for your solution, it's worked for me on MX17.
I edited the compton.conf file with this paramertes, and now everything is fine, there isn't screen tearing!

Thank you again!

Just registered to say that the solution suggested by OP (DaGama) worked for me as well on MX17, on two different computers:
- Intel i3 4030U, Intel HD Graphics 4400, open source drivers
- AMD C60, Radeon HD 6290, open source drivers

I also added the command to autostart, as OP did, and it has worked perfectly.

Thank you for the best distro I have used since I started with Linux 10 years ago!

Thanks so much for posting this! It worked for me too!