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I've been getting screen tearing that is only present in Ubuntu (MATE 16.04).

Often when scrolling on pages, I get a horizontal line that tears through, and the same goes for games, particularly Minecraft (whenever I look around there is a horizontal tear)

It is extremely frustrating because the issue is not present in Windows.

I am using an i5-3570k with a NVIDIA GTX 670. Currently using the NVIDIA 361.42 proprietary drivers available through the driver options.

I tried the solution here by putting a configuration file in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d as well as this solution to no avail.

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Giovanni
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    Try opening "MATE Tweak" from the preferences menu. What is selected as your compositor? Try the other options one-by-one to see what works best – Nick Weinberg May 31 '16 at 00:09

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I might be a little late here, but since you are using a NVIDIA graphics card the problem can be solved by editing nvidia-settings (make sure nvidia-settings is installed):

  • Open nvidia-settings (as root, via sudo).

  • Go to XServer Display Configuration.

  • Click on Advanced.

  • Enable Force full composition pipeline or Force composition pipeline (depends on what feels best for you). If you can't see the checkbox for these options, you have to click "Advanced" in the lower-right of the window: screenshot showing "Advanced" button

  • Click Apply and check if the tearing is gone. Remember you have to do above step for each monitor.

  • Make sure to hit Save to x configuration file. If you don't have write permission for /etc/X11/xorg.conf then save to your home directory and afterwards do:

    sudo cp /home/<username>/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf

  • Restart your PC after following these steps.

This solves almost all screen-tearing related problems with proprietary NVIDIA drivers.

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