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> it's nigh impossible to eliminate tearing on multimonitor setups with X11, I haven't seen tearing in longer than I can remember, and can't remember anyone e
by michaelcampbell 6y ago
> it's nigh impossible to eliminate tearing on multimonitor setups with X11,
I haven't seen tearing in longer than I can remember, and can't remember anyone even mentioning it, so I think you're overplaying this point JUST a tad. I tend to use older laptops with Linux, and older screens (VGA, DVI), so maybe that's the reason.
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- com_kieffer 6y agoIf you rotate a monitor (portrait mode) screen tearing becomes very frequent.
- minimaul 6y ago+1 I do indeed have a portrait monitor for throwing terminals on to, and it's the worst place for making tearing visible.
- cymor 6y agoI have a portrait 4k monitor in my setup and haven't seen any tearing.
- Delk 6y agoOut of curiosity (not to question), is this on Xorg or Wayland? I rarely use my external monitor, and I can't even remember the last time I had used it in portrait mode, so these comments made me realize there could be use cases (and not just hardware or drivers) that trigger tearing that I just hadn't encountered. But I just took a quick shot at it, and I didn't see tearing, at least not on YouTube, nor when moving a window around. I'm on Wayland with Intel graphics.
- linsomniac 6y agoI was wondering if I just wasn't very sensitive to tearing, because I haven't noticed it. One setup is a 4K 46" or Dell 30" next to a 4K laptop, the other is 4K 46" with two 1080P wings in portrait.