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From: Adam Jackson <ajax@redhat.com>
To: "Roberth Sjonøy" <roberth.sjonoy@gmail.com>
Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: Fighting tearing
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 12:17:34 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <504E129E.4000005@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFLBWR1y6XPiWWsGJNwp+KsO_ELygdT-+1Y222MUVOO9uj76SQ@mail.gmail.com>

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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-09-10 16:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-09 15:48 Fighting tearing Roberth Sjonøy
2012-09-09 16:42 ` Paul Menzel
     [not found]   ` <CAFLBWR1jOM=87-GYWZVwdk70GBGGMrhWrvqkSU_7sQA2BrTB+g@mail.gmail.com>
2012-09-09 17:16     ` Fwd: " Roberth Sjonøy
     [not found]     ` <CAFLBWR0S8D-Y1O9gWXhySg-0VkVyxeXSi-nw7Ai8ZNoHEMpKmQ@mail.gmail.com>
2012-09-09 17:17       ` Roberth Sjonøy
2012-09-09 17:55 ` Ben Widawsky
2012-09-09 18:00   ` Chris Wilson
2012-09-09 20:02     ` Roberth Sjonøy
2012-09-10  0:07     ` Roberth Sjonøy
2012-09-10 14:09     ` Roberth Sjonøy
2012-09-11 21:21       ` Ben Widawsky
2012-09-10 16:17 ` Adam Jackson [this message]
2012-09-10 16:38   ` Roberth Sjonøy

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