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[Carsten Mattner]

On 5/16/16, karu.pruun <karu.pruun at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have to correct a mistake: I did get compton + uxa with xfce4
> working tearfree on a 4k monitor. I used this conf file

On Intel?

> http://duncanlock.net/blog/2013/06/07/how-to-switch-to-compton-for-beautiful-tear-free-compositing-in-xfce/
>
> with the glx backend.

Glad to hear it finally worked for you.

> On a different note: I was very much impressed by wayland/weston.
> Following these instructions
>
> https://github.com/DragonFlyBSD/DeltaPorts/pull/123
>
> one gets a teafree smooth graphical environment. No apps apart from a
> terminal but looks promising. I wonder if the xwayland module would
> allow run the usual xorg applications? The xwayland module did not
> load; complained about the missing X11 socket.

The bundled wayland terminal emulator isn't very good and it's a pain
that there's no xterm or rxvt-unicode yet since Konsole and all VTE-based
emulators are incompatible or bad in some way.

Were it not for that, I might consider using Weston.