I want to install debian on my thinkpad x220 and I can't decide what DE to choose. Does screen tearing appear regardless of gpu or will it work finee on intel hd?
Is screen tearing still an issue on xfce?
Daniel Miller
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Kayden Howard
Install GenToo; problem solved
On a more serious note; GenToo fixes everthing
((((((use KDE))))))
Grayson Roberts
Yeah. Last I checked. compmon tho
Nolan Hill
No screen tearing on my thinkpad, but I do things like search the internet for fixes when I have problems.
Angel Scott
So I justneed to change the default WM?
Ryder Martinez
fpbp. best kde experience.
Austin Phillips
I used xfce4 for years, almost a decade. On a whim about a year ago I decided to try out plasma. It's worth it, man. It doesn't add that much more overhead to what you're running now especially if you turn off compositing, but the built-in compositor works great and does take care of screen tearing on both my AMD laptop and my gtx1060 in my desktop.
Mason Foster
xfce uses some weird built-in shit for compositing by default. It blows. Either use compton or move to gnome/kde for easy-mode.
David Morris
kde uses less ram
Alexander Powell
It uses 0 ram after it krashes.
Brayden Cox
bullshit. I used kde on gentoo and at boot it uses 400mb while xfce used up around 180
Liam James
It is very chipsed related.
Sandy Bridge - will work.
Ivy bridge - maybe
Haswell - nope
Adam Ward
build 4.13 if you can
Christian King
askubuntu.com
werks for me; also learn how to google newfag
James Johnson
Just make sure compton runs at startup
Werks on my machine
Jaxon Fisher
i did two things to fix this last night and it worked:
1. disable xfce compositing under settings
2. sudo apt install compton
instantly no tearing
Lincoln Clark
Not since 4.13
Linux Mint fixes tearing by default. Xubuntu will be broken until 2020. Basically don't use Xubuntu, it's shit. Install Mint if you want a working Xfce distro.
Compton is a battery/performance hog, buggy and abandoned. It's a shit choice when you can just upgrade your xfwm to 4.13.
Colton Roberts
Also, compton makes my cpu to struggle to maintain tearfree sync. Temps goes to hell and my fan gets loud.
Default browsing with tearing: 45°
Compton browsing tearfree: 65° even 70°
Number one priority to me is silence, so, no compton.
Lucas Brooks
i have a desktop and dont notice any adverse edfects from compton but ok
Hunter Adams
Maybe its my intel igpu. Its shitty as fuck.
Mason Jones
w-what about cinnamon
tfw cinnamon will always tear up on my machine
Gavin Howard
If you're on intel you're lucky, just add
Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel Graphics"
Driver "intel"
Option "AccelMethod" "sna"
Option "TearFree" "true"
EndSection
to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf
Andrew Cruz
tearfree works on amd too