mhbell Posted December 7, 2020 Posted December 7, 2020 Clean fresh install all updates. The resolution is 1920 x 1080 which is to small for these poor old eyes. When I go to settings and try to change it to 1360 x 768 which works fine in Mint 20 cinnamon de the screen tears and goes nuts. This happens no matter what resolution I try. here is my inxi Mel mhbell@mint-xfce:~$ inxi -Fxz System: Kernel: 5.4.0-56-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.3.0 Desktop: Xfce 4.14.2 Distro: Linux Mint 20 Ulyana base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal Machine: Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: PRIME B450M-A v: Rev X.0x serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 1002 date: 03/07/2019 Battery: Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse charge: 5% (should be ignored) status: Discharging CPU: Topology: Quad Core model: AMD Ryzen 3 2200G with Radeon Vega Graphics bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Zen L2 cache: 2048 KiB flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 27947 Speed: 1448 MHz min/max: 1600/3500 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1441 2: 1420 3: 1420 4: 1422 Graphics: Device-1: AMD Raven Ridge [Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Vega Mobile Series] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus ID: 08:00.0 Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.8 driver: amdgpu,ati unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz OpenGL: renderer: AMD RAVEN (DRM 3.35.0 5.4.0-56-generic LLVM 10.0.0) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.0.8 direct render: Yes Audio: Device-1: AMD Raven/Raven2/Fenghuang HDMI/DP Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 08:00.1 Device-2: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 08:00.6 Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.0-56-generic Network: Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: ASUSTeK driver: r8169 v: kernel port: f000 bus ID: 07:00.0 IF: enp7s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> Drives: Local Storage: total: 465.76 GiB used: 13.61 GiB (2.9%) ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO 500GB size: 465.76 GiB Partition: ID-1: / size: 22.79 GiB used: 6.77 GiB (29.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda11 ID-2: /home size: 22.79 GiB used: 6.84 GiB (30.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda13 ID-3: swap-1 size: 1.91 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda12 Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 38.6 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 38 C Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A Info: Processes: 198 Uptime: 33m Memory: 13.66 GiB used: 2.29 GiB (16.8%) Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 9.3.0 Shell: bash v: 5.0.17 inxi: 3.0.38 mhbell@mint-xfce:~$ Quote
securitybreach Posted December 7, 2020 Posted December 7, 2020 I am looking but you can always change the scaling (zoom level) Quote
securitybreach Posted December 7, 2020 Posted December 7, 2020 It sounds like a bug but I am still searching. Quote
mhbell Posted December 8, 2020 Author Posted December 8, 2020 I solved the problem. I changed the desktop settings from XFWM4 + Composting to Metacity + Composting. I guess the default was the XFWM4 and that won't work with my hardware. Thanks anyway security. Mel Quote
raymac46 Posted December 8, 2020 Posted December 8, 2020 https://www.slant.co/versus/1302/1310/~xfwm_vs_compiz 1 Quote
raymac46 Posted December 8, 2020 Posted December 8, 2020 http://duncanlock.net/blog/2013/06/07/how-to-switch-to-compton-for-beautiful-tear-free-compositing-in-xfce/ 1 Quote
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