Here we go! The logs are attached. I turned TearFree to `on` from `auto`,
dragged some windows around, and captured them.
AFAIK, I haven't made any changes via xrandr, except for toggling the
TearFree property.

-Dawson Dias

On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 2:47 PM, Michel Dänzer <michel-otUistvHUpPR7s880joybQ@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> On 2018-03-15 08:51 AM, Dawson Dias wrote:
> > I managed to pinpoint the issue. The stuttering is caused by enabling
> > TearFree via xrandr. When on `auto`, there is no stuttering, but when
> > enabled by setting it to `on`, there is intense stuttering noticeable
> > when dragging windows around, but it's also very noticeable when just
> > moving the mouse around on the desktop with no windows open.
>
> Please share the Xorg log and output of dmesg and
>
>  xrandr --verbose
>
> captured while the stuttering is occurring.
>
>
> > I use Openbox with Compton for compositing.
>
> FWIW, with compton you shouldn't need TearFree (unless you use rotation
> or other RandR transformations, but in that case it's active with auto
> as well). But it's supposed to work without stuttering anyway, obviously.
>
>
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