I was having screen tearing on Ubuntu 14.04 with XBMC 12.3 & 13.0. Never had tearing on VLC or smplayer though but no matter what I did it continued on XBMC. Once I added the ppa, exited XBMC and reopened it, tearing is gone. Thank you for the immediate fix!
Devs - *please* merge this into 14.04. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1280665 Title: libsdl1.2 always uses backingstore which causes tearing in modern X servers To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/libsdl/+bug/1280665/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
