Screen Tearing

Does your computer exhibit screen tearing when browsing or have a hard dark shadow line running across the screen, if employing a dock such as Plank at the top or bottom of the screen, while using the default Xfce compositor?

Note before completing any edits to your system's root configuration files, run this command sudo xDaily to update your system. Because there are specific bash codes to update, upgrade, clean and optimise your Peppermint Xfce and its memory usage. When you are required to reboot after completing a certain editing task, (there are a few) run sudo xDaily each time you reboot back into your system.

Compton will generally improve both these scenarios. Below are our inhouse wiki links and guide to show you how to set up the Compton compositor. Plus the system configurations to help to you to set up your computer and graphic card for its optimum performance, such as the i915 intel integrated graphic card.

Compton: https://sourceforge.net/p/peppermintos/pepwiki/Compton%20Compositor/

Configure PeppermintOS: https://sourceforge.net/p/peppermintos/pepwiki/Configure%20PeppermintOS/

If you are new to PeppermintOS, please also go the Whisker Menu, look for --> Favourites --> PepHub and run both GUI commands from the Update Mgr. Then click on hblock this will reduce the unwelcome tracking bots that follow you when browsing the internet.

Intel only

Edit this config file: sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf or sudo mousepad /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf

Section "Device"

    Identifier "Intel Graphics"

    Driver "intel"

    Option "TearFree" "true"

Other graphic cards systems refer here: https://www.maketecheasier.com/get-rid-screen-tearing-linux/