Comment 1 for bug 1362606

I stumbled across this almost on accident on my 14.04 rig, which acts as a home theatre PC in the living room. Netflix proved to be quite choppy with lots of tearing in Chrome. I tried a multitude of settings before coming to find the very setting Xiang spoke about above ended up being the fix.

Likewise, I just spun up a fresh install of 15.04. Right away, YouTube video tearing. Like before, I fired up compizconfig-settings-manager and switched Composite >> Unredirect Fullscreen Windows to be unchecked.

Just like that, tearing is gone.

In all reality, this should default to uncheck. It would alleviate a multitude of headaches that users have with screen tearing. After all, not everybody knows that compizconfig-settings-manager exists, or that they should install it post-Ubuntu-install just to flip a checkbox to rectify this issue.