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Re: Xubuntu 19.04: The Exhaustive Update

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Post by bklaasen » Sat, Apr 20, 2019, 12:03 AM UTC

No mention of having fixed screen tearing in videos.

I'm a longtime Xubuntu user because it just gets out of my way and is rock solid, but the apparently unfixable screen tearing makes me weep.

Seemingly Manjaro XFCE edition[1] solves the screen tearing by using a different compositor[2].

[1] https://manjaro.org/download/xfce/ [2] https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/130616/the-xfce-surprise...

Re: Xubuntu 19.04: The Exhaustive Update

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Post by Legogris » Wed, Apr 24, 2019, 11:51 AM UTC

chmln wrote: post #106

Legogris wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The thing I am yet to achieve is getting a configuration for my laptop that works fine both on the laptop screen and on one or several connected external displays. No problem with KDE Plasma, but when running a tiling WM without a DE...

You can and should have a separate, optimal configuration for each monitor. This is pretty easy with xrandr, and it's DE-agnostic

I guess this is the way to go. Quite annoying as I am switching between different screen setups/resolutions/physical layouts frequently.

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