Screen Tearing 18.3 cinnamon

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I installed Linux a few days ago (I'm a newbie) and I'm having a lot of horizontal screen tearing issues, which I don't have when I boot into windows. How do I fix this?
System details

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System:    Host: HP-ENVY-Notebook Kernel: 4.10.0-38-generic x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 5.4.0)
           Desktop: Cinnamon 3.6.6 (Gtk 3.18.9-1ubuntu3.3)
           Distro: Linux Mint 18.3 Sylvia
Machine:   System: HP (portable) product: HP ENVY Notebook v: Type1ProductConfigId
           Mobo: HP model: 816D v: 91.1D Bios: Insyde v: F.82 date: 07/15/2016
CPU:       Dual core Intel Core i7-6500U (-HT-MCP-) cache: 4096 KB
           flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 10368
           clock speeds: max: 3100 MHz 1: 499 MHz 2: 499 MHz 3: 499 MHz
           4: 499 MHz
Graphics:  Card-1: Intel Sky Lake Integrated Graphics bus-ID: 00:02.0
           Card-2: NVIDIA GM108M [GeForce 940M] bus-ID: 01:00.0
           Display Server: X.Org 1.18.4 driver: nvidia
           Resolution: 1920x1080@60.05hz
           GLX Renderer: GeForce 940M/PCIe/SSE2
           GLX Version: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 387.34 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio:     Card Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio
           driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1f.3
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.10.0-38-generic
Network:   Card-1: Intel Wireless 3165 driver: iwlwifi bus-ID: 03:00.0
           IF: wlo1 state: up mac: b8:81:98:75:ee:cd
           Card-2: Realtek RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet controller
           driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: 3000 bus-ID: 04:00.0
           IF: eno1 state: down mac: ec:8e:b5:4f:88:44
           WAN IP: 76.126.230.59
           IF: wlo1 ip-v4: 192.168.1.11 ip-v6: fe80::55bc:c642:d14d:6788
           IF: eno1 ip-v4: N/A ip-v6: N/A
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 1000.2GB (96.4% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: WDC_WD10JPVX size: 1000.2GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 15G used: 11G (82%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda6
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 17.01GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda7
RAID:      No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 44.5C mobo: N/A gpu: 0.0:47C
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes: 221 Uptime: 17:25 Memory: 3499.1/15884.8MB
           Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 5.4.0
           Client: Shell (bash 4.3.481) inxi: 2.2.35 

[catweazel]

See this tutorial

It's for nvidia only so I son't know how it will go with your integrated Intel video. Nevertheless give it a try. If it creates problems you can always delete the xorg.conf the tutorial gets you to create, then reboot.

[trytip]

run this command and test the tear video again

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nvidia-settings --assign CurrentMetaMode="$(nvidia-settings -q CurrentMetaMode -t|tr '\n' ' '|sed -e 's/.*:: \(.*\)/\1\n/g' -e 's/}/, ForceCompositionPipeline = On}/g')" > /dev/null

ps: the tearing is caused by window manager so try changing it to compiz or if cinnamon has marco+compton

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I tried the command; it didn't do anything. How do I change the window manager?

[trytip]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM1W1h5dyQA

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I changed my graphics card to the Intel, which seems to have fixed the tearing. I still don't know if that would work for the Nvidia, though.