This also happens for me on i965, r600 and radeonsi, especially when running a background window with moving pixels (something like GNOME System Monitor on the Graphs tab for instance). Enabling force_swap_buffers indeed seems to make the problem go away.
As part of the big bug review for 16.04 LTS I have tested this on 15.10 and the bug is still there. ** Tags added: desktop-bugscrub-triaged -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1293243 Title: Compiz causes vertical tearing To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/1293243/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
