Fixing Xfce4 compositor issue with Nvidia Graphics Card

Hey everyone! In this post I’m gonna explain you about an issue I have with the latest version of Nvidia driver (at the time of writing) 580.126.18 and Xfce4 compositor. The solution is very simple command, but if you want to understand a little bit more about desktop environments and some concepts behind, I will give a broader explanation of the bug and why the fix worked. tl;dr In order to fix my issue with the compositor, which is something that is recommended on multiple forums is to set the vblank_mode to xpresent and restart in my case lightdm. ...

March 3, 2026 · 3 min · donkeysharp