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  1. Bug #880707
  2. Comment #23

Comment 23 for bug 880707

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Leuke (leuke) wrote : Re: [regression] Visible tearing is worse in 11.10 than 11.04, even when "Sync To VBlank" is enabled, but only when Unity is active.

In Gnome Shell adding this line to /etc/environment:
    CLUTTER_PAINT=disable-clipped-redraws:disable-culling
totally solves both tearing and performance issues in the same time on my configuration, Nvidia ION.
Though I don't know what exactly this line does, I hope this information can be useful for compiz development too.