Fix screen tearing on Xfce without external programs (mostly Intel)
Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2020 12:26 am
The fork from compton, that itself is a fork from xcompmgr, to picom made me thinking. There has to be another solution and indeed there is but I probably was too blind or missed the actual improvements to xfwm4.
Here comes the great Arch Wiki into play. It seems you can just tweak it from Xfce itself and I found it via xfconf. Honestly I never thought about it and never before did I play with it. It is Xfce's own dconf editor but much more sane.
You can switch the default compositor to OpenGL. That is what I need on my Intel card. I forgot what the default is but I switched to glx and boom, no screen tearing and I can use the damn compositor that is built into the desktop environment.
I never found it on Arch's Xfce article because it is in another article, the article about xfwm!
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xfwm#Video_tearing
Here comes the great Arch Wiki into play. It seems you can just tweak it from Xfce itself and I found it via xfconf. Honestly I never thought about it and never before did I play with it. It is Xfce's own dconf editor but much more sane.
You can switch the default compositor to OpenGL. That is what I need on my Intel card. I forgot what the default is but I switched to glx and boom, no screen tearing and I can use the damn compositor that is built into the desktop environment.
I never found it on Arch's Xfce article because it is in another article, the article about xfwm!
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xfwm#Video_tearing