Show HN: Bonk, a command-line tool for X11 window management

Re:Show HN: Bonk, a command-line tool for X11 window management by t-3 on Sunday April 07, 2024 @11:57PM (#39966080)

What are you running when you experience screen tearing? I've literally never once encountered it in over 20 years of using X.

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Re:Show HN: Bonk, a command-line tool for X11 window management by bee_rider on Monday April 08, 2024 @02:21AM (#39966754)

IIRC I get it in Firefox occasionally. I vaguely suspect some combination of smooth scrolling, video, and a portrait mode screen but it isn’t annoying enough to investigate

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Re:Show HN: Bonk, a command-line tool for X11 window management by omnimus on Monday April 08, 2024 @02:49AM (#39966917)

Maybe you are not sensitive to it. Some people dont percieve tearing as much as others. I run base PopOS (ubintu derivative with gnome) and i get tearing in x. I don’t know much about linux jist that when i login i can choose x/wayland and wayland seems to be a lot better at everything (fractional scaling also works).

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Re:Show HN: Bonk, a command-line tool for X11 window management by tetris11 on Monday April 08, 2024 @05:45AM (#39967984)

mpv running an anime for example, where the scene pans to the left or right

Sometimes adding a compositor like Compton helps, but you still see it

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Re:Show HN: Bonk, a command-line tool for X11 window management by kiwijamo on Monday April 08, 2024 @02:52PM (#39972618)

I can consistently trigger it playing a video in any player under X11 e.g. videos in Firefox or in a standalone player like mpv/VLC etc. It's pretty damn obvious in certain types of videos e.g. action movies. But always on Intel GPU so it's possible it's not so noticeable with other GPU due to hardware or driver software differences. The Intel driver for xorg has a configuration flag that stops screen tearing.

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