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i3 FAQ - Individual question feedhttps://faq.i3wm.org/questions/Frequently asked questions and answers about the i3 window managerenCopyright i3, 2012Fri, 30 May 2014 22:40:11 +0000Workspace switching causes screen tearinghttps://faq.i3wm.org/question/903/workspace-switching-causes-screen-tearing/Considering I have a terminal occupying a whole workspace and another terminal in another, switching quickly between these two workspaces will cause screen tearing with some white rectangles "blending in" with the terminal background color. I have an Nvidia GTS 450 graphics card, with the Nvidia driver version 310.19. I've also set up the following attributes in `/etc/X11/xorg.conf`: Option "Composite" "Disable" Option "TrippleBuffering" "true" Option "DynamicTwinView" "false" Option "UseEvents" "true" Option "FlatPanelProperties" "Scaling = Native" While this may not be an issue with i3, I was wondering if there was something that could be done in order to wait for all the windows to be rendered in a workspace before switching to it so that no more tearing will appear. This seems to occur also with the Nouveau driver. --- Later Edit: Tearing does not occur when using `xterm` or `urxvt`, however. It seems that this happens on `xfce4-terminal` and `gnome-terminal`, therefore a possible solution will be to change the terminal emulator. I guess I answered my own question.Fri, 14 Dec 2012 20:10:37 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/903/workspace-switching-causes-screen-tearing/Answer by AladW for Considering I have a terminal occupying a whole workspace and another terminal in another, switching quickly between these two workspaces will cause screen tearing with some white rectangles "blending in" with the terminal background color. I have an Nvidia GTS 450 graphics card, with the Nvidia driver version 310.19. I've also set up the following attributes in <code>/etc/X11/xorg.conf</code>: <pre><code>Option "Composite" "Disable" Option "TrippleBuffering" "true" Option "DynamicTwinView" "false" Option "UseEvents" "true" Option "FlatPanelProperties" "Scaling = Native" </code></pre> While this may not be an issue with i3, I was wondering if there was something that could be done in order to wait for all the windows to be rendered in a workspace before switching to it so that no more tearing will appear. This seems to occur also with the Nouveau driver. <hr/> Later Edit: Tearing does not occur when using <code>xterm</code> or <code>urxvt</code>, however. It seems that this happens on <code>xfce4-terminal</code> and <code>gnome-terminal</code>, therefore a possible solution will be to change the terminal emulator. I guess I answered my own question. https://faq.i3wm.org/question/903/workspace-switching-causes-screen-tearing/?answer=3896#post-id-3896For me it only happens when switching with the mouse (intel E3-1200). Terminal emulator is lxterminal also see: https://github.com/i3/i3/issues/661Fri, 30 May 2014 22:40:11 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/903/workspace-switching-causes-screen-tearing/?answer=3896#post-id-3896Answer by Michael for Considering I have a terminal occupying a whole workspace and another terminal in another, switching quickly between these two workspaces will cause screen tearing with some white rectangles "blending in" with the terminal background color. I have an Nvidia GTS 450 graphics card, with the Nvidia driver version 310.19. I've also set up the following attributes in <code>/etc/X11/xorg.conf</code>: <pre><code>Option "Composite" "Disable" Option "TrippleBuffering" "true" Option "DynamicTwinView" "false" Option "UseEvents" "true" Option "FlatPanelProperties" "Scaling = Native" </code></pre> While this may not be an issue with i3, I was wondering if there was something that could be done in order to wait for all the windows to be rendered in a workspace before switching to it so that no more tearing will appear. This seems to occur also with the Nouveau driver. <hr/> Later Edit: Tearing does not occur when using <code>xterm</code> or <code>urxvt</code>, however. It seems that this happens on <code>xfce4-terminal</code> and <code>gnome-terminal</code>, therefore a possible solution will be to change the terminal emulator. I guess I answered my own question. https://faq.i3wm.org/question/903/workspace-switching-causes-screen-tearing/?answer=905#post-id-905In my experience, any form of tearing/lags/corruption occuring in i3 was caused by faulty graphic drivers and/or graphics hardware. I have never once heard of a problem with Intel graphic cards, so I recommend these. I am not aware of anything we can do in i3 to fix this from our side, but that doesn’t mean that there is nothing we can do…Fri, 14 Dec 2012 20:22:06 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/903/workspace-switching-causes-screen-tearing/?answer=905#post-id-905Comment by aliasbind for In my experience, any form of tearing/lags/corruption occuring in i3 was caused by faulty graphic drivers and/or graphics hardware. I have never once heard of a problem with Intel graphic cards, so I recommend these. I am not aware of anything we can do in i3 to fix this from our side, but that doesn’t mean that there is nothing we can do… https://faq.i3wm.org/question/903/workspace-switching-causes-screen-tearing/?comment=906#comment-906Thank you for your quick answer. It seems that there is no tearing with most applications that I tried until now, except for those two given in my post above (`gnome-terminal` and `xfce4-terminal`).Fri, 14 Dec 2012 20:47:08 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/903/workspace-switching-causes-screen-tearing/?comment=906#comment-906