Mint 17 Cinnamon Full screen Tearing

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Mint 17 Cinnamon Full screen Tearing

Post by SOIMiMozO »

Hi.
I'm using Mint 17 cinnamon edition with nvidia proprietary driver. (331 revision at the moment.)
I had very strong video tearing from the beginning so I tried to fix it with recommendations from these forums.(Like messing with nvidia profiles and other stuff.)
The only thing which helped me is the recommendation to add:

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CLUTTER_PAINT=disable-clipped-redraws:disable-culling
CLUTTER_VBLANK=True
to /etc/environment

It DID help, but only for desktop and windowed applications. Should anything go full screen, (video players, games) the tearing is back.
Somebody was mentioning, that it happens, because composite manager is not handling full screen applications.

So I wanted to ask if anyone else here having this problem. And maybe there is a way to fix it?
Thanks in advance.
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Re: Mint 17 Cinnamon Full screen Tearing

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I have the same issue, tried everything but nothing works
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I am using an Nvidia GeForce GTX 680M and I too had been experiencing the same issue on Mint Cinnamon 17 (and 16). The screen tearing is very noticeable when playing games or viewing videos with the default Totem player – and yes, even after adding the “CLUTTER_PAINT” code to /etc/environment.

P.S. I never had this issue with Mint Cinnamon 15, which is why I recently downgraded from 17.
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Re: Mint 17 Cinnamon Full screen Tearing

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I never had this issue with Mint Cinnamon 16
But from what I understand, the same issue is on Mate and Xfce
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~FLOW~ wrote:But from what I understand, the same issue is on Mate and Xfce
Tearing can easily be resolved by replacing either of the version’s window manager with Compton. Problem is is that there is no way to work around the issue in Cinnamon, as Cinnamon’s window manager cannot be replaced (unlike in MATE or Xfce where you can simply execute a marco --replace, metacity --replace, xfwm4 --replace, compiz --replace, etc) without having to unload the entire desktop environment.
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well that's a happy thought :cry:
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Re: Mint 17 Cinnamon Full screen Tearing

Post by amintuser »

well FYI only.
I'm using Cinnamon Mint 13 with nvidia proprietary driver. And about a year ago the trick from 1st post worked 100%. Now (!) i'm still using Mint13 and adding to etc/environment is useless :evil: So I can predict that on all Cinnamon editions form 13 till 17 one would have same tearing issue now. No escape yet.
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amintuser wrote:So I can predict that on all Cinnamon editions form 13 till 17 one would have same tearing issue now. No escape yet.
I am not getting any tearing with Mint 15 Cinnamon (downgraded from 17). Not sure why you’re having this issue with 13.

Are you running a later version of Cinnamon?

EDIT: I’m running Cinnamon 1.8.8 (the latest version Mint 15 officially supports).
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Re: Mint 17 Cinnamon Full screen Tearing

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I've forgotten to tell that I'm using latest available Cinnamon on Mint 13. It's a 2.0.14 now. (from backports software sources enabled)

So the issue tearing might appear on all v.2 Cinnamon editions I guess.
SOIMiMozO

Re: Mint 17 Cinnamon Full screen Tearing

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Anyone knows, if it is reported already? Or should I do it?
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Re: Mint 17 Cinnamon Full screen Tearing

Post by amintuser »

indeed report is needed.
But I think tearing issue is not a new. And since v.2 cinnamon arrival we still don't have an answer to that problem. Sad but true.
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Failed to execute child process
I'll just try XFCE, Cinnamomn is becoming more sluggish
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Re: Mint 17 Cinnamon Full screen Tearing

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Hi,

Just a quick word to let you know we're aware of the problem.

The cause is a side-effect of this https://github.com/linuxmint/muffin/com ... aa19767aaf.

Starting from 2.0, Muffin did just like other compositing WMs, it "unredirected" windows in full screen. In other words, full screen windows are not being composited and thus rely on their software to implement vsync.

The rationale behind this is for gamers not to lose performance in full screen mode.

Of course it creates an issue as you underlined in this thread.

We'll look into this right now, Cinnamon 2.4 is planned for next week but we can probably squeeze an option to turn ON/OFF compositing on full screen windows.
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Re: Mint 17 Cinnamon Full screen Tearing

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Confirmed. This was implemented today. It's coming in 2.4 (Mint 17.1).
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