Compositor for X based window managers

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  1. These standalone compositors are are really buggy/experimental and not well maintained. I cannot recommend them. You also won’t find compton or picom in Rocky or epel.

  2. You say you don’t see any tearing. A good test is to shake a terminal window horizontaly as fast as you can. (I’m assuming your window manager will move the window as a whole not only a frame around it.) If this doesn’t give you visible tearing, then you don’t have a problem to solve.

  3. Nvidia’s proprietary driver actually has some sort of built-in compositor, but it’s normally not used by default. To activate it you need something like this:

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Videocard0"
        Driver      "nvidia"
        Option      "metamodes" "nvidia-auto-select +0+0 {ForceCompositionPipeline=On}"
        Option      "UseNvKmsCompositionPipeline" "false"
EndSection

The last line is optional. You’re either getting better results with or without it.

See also Reddit - Dive into anything for what this really does.

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