Hi!
I’ve been experiencing screen tearing on i3wm for a while and I can’t seem to be able to figure out the source. I’ve checked that the refresh rate of xrandr matches the one of my monitor, I’ve made sure that I’ve got the drivers I need installed (at least that I know of, manually installed xf86-video-intel on top of what came with base installation), and I doubt it could be a compositor issue given that I haven’t done anything to it and no one else seems to be having the same issue.
I mostly notice this when I’m scrolling on news websites and other websites that has a lot of text when my screen starts being distorted here and there in horizontal lines. This is not an issue I have on KDE Wayland or KDE X11 but exclusively on i3wm.
Any and all help is appreciated.
system info dump
./sssso- -----------------
`:osssssss+- OS: EndeavourOS Linux x86_64
`:+sssssssssso/. Host: 20X2S0DL00 ThinkPad L14 Gen 2
`-/ossssssssssssso/. Kernel: 6.2.8-arch1-1
`-/+sssssssssssssssso+:` Uptime: 5 mins
`-:/+sssssssssssssssssso+/. Packages: 1384 (pacman), 6 (flatpak)
`.://osssssssssssssssssssso++- Shell: bash 5.1.16
.://+ssssssssssssssssssssssso++: Resolution: 1920x1080
.:///ossssssssssssssssssssssssso++: WM: i3
`:////ssssssssssssssssssssssssssso+++. Theme: Breeze [GTK2], Arc-Darker [GTK3]
`-////+ssssssssssssssssssssssssssso++++- Icons: Papirus-Dark [GTK2/3]
`..-+oosssssssssssssssssssssssso+++++/` Terminal: xfce4-terminal
./++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++/:. Terminal Font: Source Code Pro 10
`:::::::::::::::::::::::::------`` CPU: 11th Gen Intel i3-1115G4 (4) @ 4.100GHz
GPU: Intel Tiger Lake-LP GT2 [UHD Graphics G4]
Memory: 1495MiB / 7598MiB
[runarcn@endeavour ~]$ xrandr --query
Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 32767 x 32767
eDP1 connected primary 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 310mm x 170mm
1920x1080 60.05*+
DP1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP3 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP4 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
VIRTUAL1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)