Hello,
Until we move away from X, I guess we will be doomed to live with tearing issues in Linux. But I’ll ask anyways, does anyone know how to get rid of it? I’m getting ugly tearing in all full screen videos. Running Leap, with Gnome, and changed my Display Manager to LightDM. Graphics card is AMD 7770 with open source drivers (fglrx can fix the tearing, but appears to cause system freezes).
Please help.
You can try a Desktop which installs Wayland which today appears to be the likely successor to X but from my personal experiments Wayland can provide superior performance and features only by making use of better hardware… My initial installs on 10 yr old hardware pretty much failed and didn’t solve any X issues. If my experimental results are valid, there is no getting around having sufficient hardware.
If you want to try Wayland, it’ll only cost you disk space… Install the Enlightenment Desktop from your standard openSUSE repos.
TSU
Thank you for your suggestion. I have installed Enlightenment but it appears as a half finished project. It seems to have a hard time remembering its settings for my dual monitors, and the UI sometimes becomes extremely sluggish, and things have a tendency to freeze completely, even to the point of leaving me only with REISUB to get back to work. Windows also disappear, or maybe spawn off-screen or something. Not very usable.
I guess I’ll try to spend some time get it to work, but any other suggestions?