Screen tears horizontally, not vertically
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Screen can tear however it wants to! Don't stifle its creativity! π
i think i saw a case where the screen teared diagonally. but that was more so a software problem i believe
Not on my portrait monitor
Uhhh I have both!!!
How? Well let's explain my setup that any Nvidia gpu on Linux hates.
We have a 2k monitor on the bottom and a 1080p tv on the top.
Now on LinuxMint I have screen tearing vertically (especially when proton is running) and horizontally in the area where the two screens meet.
On debian I only had horizontal screen tearing occasionally.
OG Steam Deck tears vertically.
That's because the orientation of the screen is actually portrait, and it is rotated to landacape in software.
I think I've once tried a vsync test which checked both if there's vertical and horizontal tearing β and while vertical tearing was a lot more obvious it told me I have both lol.
God damn it, I can't see it as anything else now
i recently switched to i3 from KDE, and am on nvidia hardware.
IT TEARS EVERYWHERE PLEASE SOMEONE HELP ME
use picom or FullCompositionPipeline in Xconf
~~or wait for a few months until explicit sync patches arrive and nvidia finally becomes truly stable on wayland~~
This is the correct answer. The only reason this is required to do is because the default settings are bad.
i need to try, or at least make sure i have FCP enabled, i can't remember. I'll be sure to try that though.
I was having a similar issue with screen tearing on i3, although I'm on AMD, so your solution may be different.
The two solutions I found were either swapping to a wayland based wm, like sway, which I've heard nvidia doesn't like, or running a specific command either in the terminal or your i3 config file, which is not in my config file for some reason, and I've ... kinda forgotten what the command was.
... damn, I thought this would be more helpful. Good luck finding a solution that works, I'm sure googling can help.
mmm, i dont want to use wayland tbh, i'll pick it up eventually, when its mature enough for consideration, but until then im learning about x shenanigans, and it's quite fun. And likewise, nvidia, so.
I'll see what i can find on the internet ig.
and it's quite fun.
that's the spirit lol
that would be the secondary reason i've been using linux for 4 going on 5 years now lol. Love it, wouldn't it trade it for anything. Even with the hell that it can be from time to time.
This might help: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/I3#Tearing
i've been through the wiki shenanigans more than a few times, havent fully read up on them yet though, i've tried the obvious ones, so far they haven't done much. Seems like it's only video playback, havent tried a game for long enough to see yet though.
KDE has a display option that might help! it works a bit π - "screen tearing: [_] allow in fullscreen windows" - it's at the bottom.
but if not then x11 for you :/ I switch back and forth - for some applications. But finally getting an AMD card, in the mail now π
Same on i3 on a dual graphic Nvidia/Intel laptop. For me switching to sway (the Wayland alternative for i3) fixed it. This is on a laptop from 2013 tho, so it could be different on your hardware.
I had same problem with i3
Its has two solution
First is picom with enabled vsync in config
Second is enable vsync in xorg config
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA/Troubleshooting#Avoid_screen_tearing
Third solution is wayland
Switch back to Xorg.
my guy i3wm literally runs on X11. I'm trying my best...
classic xorg fans taking strays at themselves
I switched to Wayland recently (when updating to KDE6) and am experiencing heavy tearing which wasn't there on Xorg, as well as other issues (cannot copy images to the clipboard, global hotkeys no longer work).
Somehow this is nVidia's fault (this happens on my two laptops, one with Intel+nVidia, the other with Intel only).
am experiencing heavy tearing which wasn't there on Xorg
in which apps? anything that runs under xwayland is broken under nvidia at the moment because nvidia don't and can't implement implicit sync which is required for that, resulting in terrible graphical corruption. wait for a few months until explicit sync patches arrive
cannot copy images to the clipboard
Works on My Machineβ’. sounds like a bug on plasma 6 to me, check their bugzilla and whatnot. or switch back to 5.27, it's not like you're morally obliged to do plasma 6 "stable release" beta testing lmao
the other with Intel only
does graphical corruption happen there too?