[Fixed] Xfce + Compiz : tearing at the top of the screen

Hello,
Since a few weeks, both my desktop (GTX 680) and laptop (GT 555M) suffer from tearing.
in 1/4 of the screen ( from the top) : tearing, while moving windows and video playback.
On the 3/4 of the screen I have no tearing at all.
Been searchling for 3 days with my friend Google, tried all the "fix" available but none worked.
Followed the Arch wiki, no way.
Tried with 4 different NVidia drivers, with no luck...
Tried with no files in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d and no xorg.conf, still tearing.
I can easily swear that it worked fine let's say one month ago, so please stop accusing my good-old-compiz-that-works-like-a-charm.
Tried with another compositor : still tearing.
I just don't know what to do
Please help me...
Thank you !
Last edited by Nadstaky (2013-11-23 08:46:42)

I also have similiar graphics cards and suffer from the same issue.
Unfortunately it is probably an issue with compiz. I built it from the AUR a few weeks ago and had the exact same issue. This also carried over when I was testing an Ubuntu 12.04 box with the comipz that it comes with.
Xfce has no way to handle tearing compared to KDE or GNOME. So, unless you're using a different compositor you're going to have issues.
Compton might work for you, but for me it would shut off whenever I started a video game.
You can also use Kwin with XFCE as a replacement for compiz. The 4.11 version has support for Wayland, but it causes issues for me.
You can also try adding this (http://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php?title … ary_driver). Unfortunately you will probably have to turn off Compiz with this fix, as you are layering vsync over multiple times, which might cause frame drops.
If none of these help the last resort you have is to switch desktops. For me, Cinnamon and Gnome have no issues. KDE gave me issues, but it might work for you. Until Wayland is fully implemented this is something that we will have to deal with for awhile.

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