That takes care of most of the issue. However, I want to know which settings in compton.conf are needed to play nice with this graphics card. I know I must have lines like:
Vsync in compton is now a Boolean (true/false, no quotes) for Intel gpus use the xrender backend and set vsync to false.
The installer also has a flag (-t, --tearfree) to setup that xorg config for various drivers and also install drivers and touch up compton config if needed. It’s not enabled by default due to issue we were having with certain gpus during testing hence the flag.
Thank you. I always thought the intel gpu needed “backend glx” but I see that the installed compton.conf already has the right settings. With my installed 20-intel.conf file, I have no screantearing and browsing/reading is very fluent.
Yes I know. DRI3 is the default for the driver. Does not harm to have it in the config though. What does triple buffer do? I don’t have it and all seems to run very smooth. Does it give some extra performance?
Option "TripleBuffer" "boolean"
This option enables the use of a third buffer for page-flipping.
The third buffer allows applications to run at vrefresh rates
even if they occasionally fail to swapbuffers on time. The ef‐
fect of such missed swaps is the output jitters between 60fps
and 30fps, and in the worst case appears frame-locked to 30fps.
The disadvantage of triple buffering is that there is an extra
frame of latency, due to the pre-rendered frame sitting in the
swap queue, between input and any display update.
Default: enabled.