Solved Screen tearing (mostly in browser)

[ron.alan]

Greetings. I hope this doesn't end up being a double post, as my first post seems to have disappeared? Anyway, I think I put it in the wrong board.

First off, I am running Crowz/Devuan 5 with the Mate DE. I am having a problem with screen tearing. I have some very old instructions that worked to fix it in the past, but I think they may be outdated. Here they are:

If experiencing screen tearing (mostly in browser) do this:

First make sure that "Enable software compositing . . ." in Control Center >> Windows, General tab, is not checked. Then, in /home/**/.config open compton.conf and change:

backend = "xrender";
#backend = "glx";

-to-

#backend = "xrender";
backend = "glx";

Then in Startup Applications, click Add, and fill in this:

Name: Compton
Command: compton -b
Comment: Compositor

To fix fade in (to have no fade in) find the line: fading = true -change to- fading = false

The problem is that 1) in my new install there is no line in the comptom config file that has "backend" and 2) the config file is no longer under the hidden .config folder but directly in the Home folder. I don't know if #2 means anything or not, but looking at the file it looks completely different than what it did on older installs.

Can somebody help me fix this issue? Thanks.

 

[ron.alan]

Solved here: https://www.linux.org/threads/disappearing-threads.48049/#post-213628