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I have some serious tearing problems and I dont like Compton. And compiz is too heavy. Is there any WM alternatives?

Claudio Vasconcelos
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    Tearing problem is usually solved by installing the appropriate and supported graphic driver (usually proprietary). Compositing manager is just a workaround to alleviate the tearing problem, which may *not* work. –  Feb 18 '16 at 08:26
  • Xfce 4.14 has better compositor – jarno Feb 23 '20 at 14:31

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Picom

This is forked from the original Compton because it seems to have become unmaintained.

The current battle plan of this fork is to refactor it to make the code possible to maintain, so potential contributors won't be scared away when they take a look at the code.

We also try to fix bugs.

https://github.com/yshui/picom

Michal Przybylowicz
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If your just looking for composting, try xcompmgr. It's not a window manager though.

coteyr
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  • Isn't `Compton` the successor to `xcompmgr` which is no longer being developed? – DK Bose Feb 17 '16 at 13:45
  • Nope, not really, Compton is a fork (there are others) but xcompmgr is still being maintained (as of 2015-10-22 at quick glance). It's light weight and more of a proof of concept, so there's not a lot of dev work going to it, but if your wanting a lightweight compositor, it's worth a shot. – coteyr Feb 17 '16 at 14:01
  • Does it fix any tearing problems? – Claudio Vasconcelos Feb 17 '16 at 14:53
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    You will have to try and see, but usually tearing problems are not directly the compositors fault, but instead the drivers or configuration. – coteyr Feb 17 '16 at 15:40