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Ancient X11 scaling technology

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rwmj ◴[24 Jun 25 21:13 UTC] No.44371126[source]▶
It's like the "oh no, X11 suffers from tearing video" problem that they pull out all the time. (A) I have no idea what "video tear" is and (B) I play video all the time on my crappy laptop running X11 and it seems fine for me. But can I ssh to my remote server and run emacs or another program completely transparently yet with Wayland? Nope. I do that with X11 continuously.
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nullc ◴[25 Jun 25 00:02 UTC] No.44372354[source]▶
If someone shows it to you, you'll recognize it. It's when one frame shows part of the prior frame and part of the next. It's most visible in moderate speed horizontal pans as an interruption in vertical lines in the picture.

It's nice to not have tearing. But IMO the functionality loss vs X11 isn't worth it for anything but a dedicated media playback/editing device.

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1. simoncion ◴[25 Jun 25 09:44 UTC] No.44375359[source]▶
> It's nice to not have tearing.

If you're running AMD hardware, try enabling the TearFree option. [0] I've been using this for years and years and years and it works fine.

[0] See this for a config file you could plop into place: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44375247>