After reading other comments I’d say that you should also get checked out by a doctor, and maybe an optician just to be on the safe side.

Sorry you thought I was offended. I hope I didn’t imply that, because I wasn’t — I loved it!

If one is offended by a couple of words, one shouldn’t go anywhere near the hellhole known as the internet.

general.smoothScroll

(in about:config)

to false, if you haven’t tried that already.

I don’t know where you got the idea that I was offended — I loved it. If I was easily offended I would stay away from this hellhole known as the internet!

I’m usually very resistant to motion sickness (planes, gliders, cars, boats, whatever), but I’ve had two cases where I had problems: one was using VR-goggles, and the other was playing half-life 2 on a big screen.

Couldn’t do anything about the former, but for the latter, I had to make sure to light the room properly, and sit further away from the screen so it doesn’t take the entire field of vision. (the “bobbing” while walking and vehicle movement in the game also made things worse for me – but once I moved back it was manageable).

Funny thing for me, if I get motion sickness like that, i’m usually ok the first 10mins, and then the nausea overwhelms me very suddenly – nothing gradual like you (or most people) describe.

Anyway, compiz does show a bit blurry image whenever windows are in motion. I’m not sure if it’s only with cube+wobbly, but they tend to ’snap in sharpness’ as soon as dragging/desktop switch stops. That caused me some confusion until I looked closely and saw it happening.

Also scrolling in firefox works very badly for me, it’s just slow, laggy and does not follow mouse very evenly. So I get a bit of hand/eye coordination distortion when scrolling with scrollbar, sometimes with wheel too.

I hope you find yourself a suitable workaround.

I wasn’t offended. I come from a medical family and it is always prudent to seek medical advice for adverse symptoms.

Michael,

I’m pretty sure they are related. I have the same issues with low refresh rates.

Sorry you’re offended at my message, but my sister-in-law was recently diagnosed with this kind of problem (inner-ear problem causing vertigo). It can be a real issue.

That’s independent of whether compiz needs fixing; by all means if it literally induces nausea, that’s a real issue.

Maybe because the window is rendered on an offscreen pixmap which is then transformed (Might kill lcd freetype enhancements).

I have no clue though just guessing.