2015-05-06, 23:25
Maybe I have found a solution to tearing in Unity.
In CompizConfig Setting Manager, under the section general-> composite, there are the settings that can be used to completely disable composite. In the same section there is an interesting line "unredirect match". The hint of this line says "Specifies which window will be unredirected when they are fullscreen. You might want to exclude video players to avoid tearing".
In fact, this line is populated with the most common videoplayer applications (vlc, totem, mplayer), but not with kodi. I have simply added the KODI item to the list of applications ( & !(class=Kodi) ) and now magically everything works! No tearing!
In CompizConfig Setting Manager, under the section general-> composite, there are the settings that can be used to completely disable composite. In the same section there is an interesting line "unredirect match". The hint of this line says "Specifies which window will be unredirected when they are fullscreen. You might want to exclude video players to avoid tearing".
In fact, this line is populated with the most common videoplayer applications (vlc, totem, mplayer), but not with kodi. I have simply added the KODI item to the list of applications ( & !(class=Kodi) ) and now magically everything works! No tearing!
