niri Tearing flip support

Useful for games and stuff to get the lowest input latency.

We're mainly waiting for https://github.com/Smithay/smithay/pull/1335 which is waiting for some driver stuff (?). Then on the niri side we can make tearing a window rule just like on-demand VRR.

There's also https://github.com/Smithay/smithay/pull/1325 for the Wayland protocol, which is needed so windows can automatically request tearing without a manual window rule.

Dec 08 '24 11:12 YaLTeR

Any update on this one? I migrated to niri and i'm loving it but i sure miss the tearing protocol.

Jul 14 '25 12:07 witchlliee

Yeah, I also migrated back to niri, it would be cool if we had tearing support for da gamerz!

Oct 25 '25 21:10 shibahaczix

Just migrated, and I also would like this.

Nov 15 '25 09:11 exodist

https://github.com/Smithay/smithay/pull/1335 kinda annoying that this isn't higher priority.

Not everyone has VRR.

Nov 15 '25 19:11 shibahaczix

If you're a paying system76 customer then I suppose there might be some way for you to inform them of what should be "higher priority" in cosmic, and by extension Smithay

Nov 15 '25 19:11 YaLTeR

this seriously needs to be higher priority

Dec 14 '25 02:12 Gapva