I use i3wm for a couple of years now on Ubuntu. Never had an issue like this one before. I just upgraded to 22.10, but after the update, while in i3wm, I have the following issues:

1. Whenever I open an application, the screen will temporarily tear, showing other (or previous) applications on some parts of the screen.

   
   



2. In a terminal there is a lot of keyboard input lag.

   
   



3. Emacs is particularly bad, the input lag is horrendous, at one point even looked like the laptop froze for a bit.

   
   



4. Actually, the lag is especially bad on any Desktop where I have Vim OR Emacs open. So bad that the laptop actually freezes for about 5 seconds before I can do anything.

   
   

5. New Information: I discovered that, on a clean boot directly into i3wm, this lag will happen. If however I log into a normal Ubuntu Gnome session first, then log out of that and back into gnome, then suddenly this lag disappears.

This did not happen on 22.04 (i3wm) and if I log into a normal gnome session this is also not a problem.

Also, I should point out that I did try compton, since some people mention that this might be the cause on other forums... This did not resolve the issue.

Anyone knows what the issue is here?

$ neofetch

            .-/+oossssoo+/-.               andre@andre-framework 

        `:+ssssssssssssssssss+:`           --------------------- 

      -+ssssssssssssssssssyyssss+-         OS: Ubuntu 22.10 x86_64 

    .ossssssssssssssssssdMMMNysssso.       Host: Laptop (12th Gen Intel Core) A4 

   /ssssssssssshdmmNNmmyNMMMMhssssss/      Kernel: 5.19.0-23-generic 

  +ssssssssshmydMMMMMMMNddddyssssssss+     Uptime: 22 mins 

 /sssssssshNMMMyhhyyyyhmNMMMNhssssssss/    Packages: 1690 (dpkg), 23 (snap) 

.ssssssssdMMMNhsssssssssshNMMMdssssssss.   Shell: bash 5.2.2 

+sssshhhyNMMNyssssssssssssyNMMMysssssss+   Resolution: 2256x1504 

ossyNMMMNyMMhsssssssssssssshmmmhssssssso   WM: i3 

ossyNMMMNyMMhsssssssssssssshmmmhssssssso   Theme: Yaru [GTK3] 

+sssshhhyNMMNyssssssssssssyNMMMysssssss+   Icons: Yaru [GTK3] 

.ssssssssdMMMNhsssssssssshNMMMdssssssss.   Terminal: gnome-terminal 

 /sssssssshNMMMyhhyyyyhdNMMMNhssssssss/    CPU: 12th Gen Intel i5-1240P (16) @ 4.400GHz 

  +sssssssssdmydMMMMMMMMddddyssssssss+     GPU: Intel Alder Lake-P 

   /ssssssssssshdmNNNNmyNMMMMhssssss/      Memory: 2029MiB / 15708MiB

PS: Do not tell me to use gnome session instead, non-tiling window managers became very cumbersome to me by now and it slows my work down significantly. I would much rather format and reinstall 22.04 and i3wm, than use any non-tiling wm at this stage.