Tearing is one of the reasons why Wayland was started. "Every frame is perfect" was the goal, and they baked it into the design by making all updates atomic. T

Tearing is one of the reasons why Wayland was started. "Every frame is perfect" was the goal, and they baked it into the design by making all updates atomic. That's why I doubt the author had a full Wayland setup running. Maybe the app ran via Xwayland or there was no Wayland at all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_(display_server_protocol)#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_(display_server_protoc...