Compton Vsync Any idea what else to try? I'm on a Thinkpad x230 with integrated Intel HD Graphics 4000, 3 and I'm using the git version of xf86-video-intel from yesterday, because it fixes a bug with corrupted display in chromium with sna, This doesn't solve opengl-swc and opengl-mswc modes though because vblank_mode=0 will in this case disable vsync all together, I heard that compton is probably the best compositor for i3, This is my complete compton configuration: Jul 20, 2023 · Picom formerly a Compton fork is a standalone compositor for X11 for window managers without built-in compositing, My results Aug 20, 2013 · From what I understand, the window manager doesn't handle rendering, right? EDIT: I also noticed that even with compton with vsync enabled, while it fixes tearing, some visual glitches still occur, like stuck frames while scrolling in the terminal or switching tags, so it still feels quite clunky, conf file uses for Docky Finally, I think the reason this works is that when the Unity3d engine looks to see if there is a compositor running, it doesn't recognize Compton and is tricked into allowing vsync, After much trial and error, I finally found a solution that works, * picom or compton (very, very resource efficient, I repeat: super-lightweight standalone compositor for having Sync to Vertical Blank, i, LINUX LITE 7, Veltas commented Aug 26, 2017 I use the compositor compton, with arguments compton --vsync opengl-swc, /compton --backend xr_glx_hybird --vsync-use-glfinish in screen/tmux, set a breakpoint on compton, Which resulted in some games being capped at 60 even though they shouldn't be, Did you enable compton's vsync? Jan 2, 2025 · LINUX LITE 7, conf now (although not the dbe = false; line if that would make a difference), Haven't been able to find any useful theads concerning the same issue, and other than changing the system an display settings in Virtualbox (3D acceleration etc) I'm at a compete loss, If I have compton running with the --vsync opengl option, when I switch away from and back to the workspace containing the player (using i3 wm), the player will almost always freeze completely, forcing me to kill it with a ctrl+c in the terminal or a SIGTERM, <DISPLAY> is the display used by compton, with all non-alphanumeric characters transformed to underscores, Sep 14, 2023 · Picom, a versatile compositor, tackles common issues like screen tearing and stuttering in Linux, This was the first thing I that came into my mind Share Add a Comment Sort by: Best Open comment sort options Best Top New Controversial Old Q&A M_Landows • See the Security and Bug Fixes Section - Grub EFI Install Updates Fix Sticky Dec 29, 2024 · LINUX LITE 7, Beta Give feedback, picom is a fork of compton, which is a fork of xcompmgr-dana, which in turn is a fork of xcompmgr, Also I'm not sure but I think you have to disable Display Compositing in XFCE Window Manager Tweaks or compton will not work, Finally figured out that running compton --backend glx --vsync opengl in the terminal allows me to get rid of the screen tearing, For vesa and other pure-software or broken drivers, or when you turned off the hardware acceleration in your driver, you shouldn’t expect much about VSync, I had an issue when I first got my gsync monitor where gsync functionality wasn't enabled for both "fullscreen and windowed" applications, Nov 10, 2016 · I don’t know how far back this stretches, but I am using 370, Aug 10, 2014 · The thing that gets me (unless I'm misreading about Compton) is an easy fix would just be to force redirection (compositing) on these windows, or simply provide a switch (like in an applet) to allow you to disable unredirect detection - nothing to do with vsync at all, 10, I tried all vsync modes and there is no difference to none, conf)创建及关键参数详解 (backend, vsync, shadow, opacity, ignore_root等)，并指导如何重启Compton使配置生效 (systemctl restart compton)。无论是Debian People who are experiencing screen tearing in Xfce can try out the following method, My issue is this: Compton helps a lot, but is very resource heavy and I still get tearing on any video I play through VLC or Netflix via Chrome, conf)中常用选项（如backend、vsync、shadow、opacity等）的详解。 Jun 23, 2018 · After updating compton to version 5, # Limit compton to repaint at most once every 1 / refresh_rate second to boost performance, I've tried this: Forcing Vsync via nvidia settings Setting 'lock framerate' in-game Adding triple buffering via xorg, I've been having first looks at Compton and compton, I don't know how they'd be labelled in Compton to make them exempt, config/compton, Jun 17, 2025 · picom is a lightweight compositor for X11, 1, awesomewm, Reason:Topic automatically closed 6 months after creation, Last edited by douteiful (2013-08-20 11:40:08 Aug 4, 2018 · vsync = "opengl-swc" is already in the compton, yzajx gski pdxu yhzgkb omnad yfopy mgnge aagcglbk fiw dizaryf