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December 27, 2022, 7:11am
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Relevant comment. I know that tanky0u has already replied to it but perhaps others haven’t seen it yet.
FWIW, after spending quite a bit of time trying to solve graphical issues I had, I found that there were quite a few issues/posts scattered around reporting crashes with intel /i915 that in hindisght seem closely related or even downright duplicates.
So far: issues # 4782 , 7507 , 7664 , 7902 , 7894 . Forum post . Blog post (+ I remember reading another two but haven’t written down their urls).
The issue is that there’s tearing/glitches/artifacts/corruption with the fb driver when there’s no composi…
Emphasis on SOME people having problems with the intel fix for tearing. taradiddles, the one who wrote this comment, has made some suggestions like installing a compositing manager with this default “fb” driver.
AFAIK neither AwesomeWM nor DWM provide compositing so like i3wm you’d need to install a compositing manager. But more importantly, I don’t think AwesomeWM / DWM are supported by Qubes OS - eg. you won’t see the qubes’ window colors/labels which is a no-go for most security-conscious users.
Do these window managers require the (now commonplace) fix: I3 not working properly video/graphic issues - #4 by bungali
If you don’t install a compositing manager and you experience tearing, then yes (…
Some more explanation. It’s especially interesting that removing xfce’s compositor led to similar crashes as i3 users experience with the intel fix:
i3wm doesn’t provide a compositor like xfce/gnome/kde do (to enable fancy effects), so you’ll have to install a standalone compositing manager. An old i3wm faq mentions compton as compositing manager but there’s also picom (the last fork in a long chain ). It seems it’s only a matter of running the manager alongside i3wm (or awesomewm or dwm for that matter).
Sorry, I’m not a i3wm user so I can’t be of more help - I got hit by the same bugs as i3wm users because I had disabled compositing in x…
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