Screen Tearing Problem in i3wm

[arch]

I’m facing screen tearing problem whenever I watch videos on mpv or scroll through articles or search results in browsers
Can anyone help me in this?

Im using i3wm with ryzen 5 3rd gen cpu and 2gb integrated amd-radeon gaphics and 4gb nvidia external graphics card

[ishaan2479]

Share your i3 config file and output of inxi -Fazy.

[arch]

Here is the output of inxi -Fazy

And here is my i3 config file

[mithrial]

You don’t have a compositor (probably because you didn’t list your autostarts)

picom is your keyword to look for in the Arch wiki

[arch]

adding picom to my autostart script will fix my screen tearing problem?

[ishaan2479]

Probably. If it doesn’t see this video as you have a Nvidia gpu.

[arch]

The person is having Xserver display configuration option in his nvidia-settings

which is not there in my nvidia-settings

[ishaan2479]

@arch

The person is having Xserver display configuration option in his nvidia-settings

NVIDIA X Server Settings has several options missing

Yes … at the same wiki page. nvidia is … a jerk … so you must use sudo. and then you can also save the file at the pertinent location. And possibly also run sudo mhwd-gpu --setmod nvidia --setxorg /etc/X11/mhwd.d/nvidia.conf

Edit - I think your problem isn’t related to GPU. Have you tried picom yet? See picom - ArchWiki

[arch]

I ran these commands to generate a xorg.conf file as described in that forum and rebooted the system

But no change in the nvidia-settings

[arch]

yeh I added this command in my autostart script as given in this forum

picom --experimental-backends --config $HOME/.config/i3/picom.conf &

but it didnt worked

Edit:

I accedently directly copied the /usr/share/doc/picom/picom.conf.example directly to ~/.config/i3/ without renaming it to picom.conf .

So thats why picom was not starting. Renaming that picom.conf.example file to picom.conf started picom and my screen tearing issue solve