[Intel-gfx] Fighting tearing

[Roberth Sjonøy]

Well The tearing is so noticable that even my friends notice it,
without compositor, only I notice it, but it's very annoying and
distracting to my workflow when moving windows quickly.

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 6:17 PM, Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 9/9/12 11:48 AM, Roberth Sjonøy wrote:
>
>> WIth UXA, rendering of the windows in my XFCE4-desktop goes just
>> fines, good performance, windows (exspecially GTK+) doesn't hang after
>> if I drag them over the screen, but there is lot of small tearing.
>> And I want this to go away, I do not use any kind of composition, and
>> I am using XFCEs window manager.
>
>
> So use a compositor.  X's rendering model, in the absence of a compositor,
> has no concept of vsync.  It's simply not possible to not tear.
>
> - ajax