[PD] Screen tear/flicker when going full screen

[Antonio Roberts]

Strangely I'm only getting some tearing as the youtube player controls
start to disappear. Once they've gone the video plays as normal.

> If you have tearing in general, try to create a file called
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf
> with the following options:
That directory (xorg.conf.d) doesn't exist for me

On 26 May 2014 14:09, Kjetil Matheussen <k.s.matheussen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Antonio Roberts <antonio at hellocatfood.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm running Pd Extended 0.43.4 on Ubuntu 14.04. I've got a Dell XPS13
>> with Intel Ivybridge Mobile i7 graphics and I'm getting lots of screen
>> tear/flicker when I go full screen with an external monitor attached.
>> It doesn't matter if I'm full screen on the external or primary
>> monitor, I still get lots of flicker.
>>
>> Attached is an example patch that causes this problem (contains
>> flashing colours)
>>
>> I've noticed that if I don't go full screen (deleting border 0) then
>> the flicker stops, but I then have the window borders and menu bar
>> being displayed.
>>
>> Is this a problem with GEM?
>>
>
> You can check by playing this youtube vidoe:
>
>  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xkNy9gfKOg
>
> If you have tearing in general, try to create a file called
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf
> with the following options:
>
> Section "Device"
>  Option "AccelMethod" "sna"
>  Option "TearFree" "true"
> EndSection
>
> (I assume you have an intel gfx card)
>
> If that doesn't help, try to install compton
> (https://github.com/chjj/compton)
> and run it like this:
>  ./compton --backend glx --vsync opengl
>
> (unless you run another compositor manager at the same time, that should
> work)
>
>
>
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