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vasya86

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Registered: 2015-02-09

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OpenGL compositing ?

From what I read, XFCE compositing is based on xrender and the "Synchronize drawing to the vertical blank" option it's not good enough to prevent tearing. I am using Compton instead with OpenGL vsync and it's working very good on open-source AMD and Intel drivers. I was wondering if OpenGL vsync could be implemented in XFCE, like KDE does. Lots of people don't use XFCE because of tearing issue. Hope I posted in the right place. Thanks !

MountainDewManiac

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Re: OpenGL compositing ?

What is "tearing?"

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MDM

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vasya86

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Re: OpenGL compositing ?

I am talking about screen-tearing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_tearing

MountainDewManiac

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Re: OpenGL compositing ?

Thank you for the link. I don't think I have any of that, but I imagine it would be highly annoying.

I just use the standard XFCE window manager / compositor (AfaIK) on an Intel I5 laptop with Intel graphics.

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MDM

Last edited by MountainDewManiac (2015-02-10 02:20:43)

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ToZ

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Re: OpenGL compositing ?

I was wondering if OpenGL vsync could be implemented in XFCE, like KDE does. Lots of people don't use XFCE because of tearing issue.

There is this existing request. Perhaps you could add some comments there to give the request a bump.

This report may also be of interest.

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