When something flickers it flashes repeatedly. Flickering in Ask Ubuntu is generally referring to screen issues, or to describe an LED, such as, "The hard disk access light flickered."
Questions tagged [flicker]
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Annoying flickering in 16.04 LTS - Chrome
I've upgraded from 4.4.0 to 4.4.8 and then 4.5.2 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 64-bit, and it's still happening.
At 4.5.2 it's even more frequent, and mainly in Chrome (haven't tried firefox or opera just yet). Every time I open a new web page. Any way to…
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Flickering in KDE Plasma 5.4
I am facing flickering in KDE Plasma 5.4. Flickering stops when I change Compositor Rendering Back-end To OpenGL 3 and then change again to OpenGL 2.
OS: KUbuntu 15.04
Graphics: Intel HD 4000
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Ubuntu screen flickering
I have installed ubuntu 20.04 on my laptop specification are intel i3 6th gen with intel graphics card 520,screen resolution 1366×768.
when i lock desktop to temporarily turn off the screen but when i press power button to wakeup the screen my…
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Weird partial screen flickering after upgrade to 14.04
I have been bothered by this issue for few weeks already. The problem started when I upgraded to 14.04. Parts of my screen are sometimes flickering like shown on 2 videos that links I attach below:…
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Google Chrome "Flickering"
I am having a problem with Google Chrome on Ubuntu 12.10 64.
On about 20-30% of web sites the page comes up and starts "flickering". It seems like there is a different or partial rendering of the page in a different buffer and several times per…
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Fixing the Nvidia Graphics Screen Flicker Issue
I know there are a lot of questions about this -- I've read at least 100 questions about it but still can't find a solution to the Nvidia screen flicker issue. I've had this issue since 11.10. The screen jitters and flickers about every 3-5 seconds.…
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AMD RX480 Screen flicker after update to 18.04
As mentioned in the title. Was upgrading from 17.10. Having this screen flickering.
My GPU is AMD RX480
What I did:
Search for similar issues for 18.04, can't find any
Perform fresh install. Still the same.
Please help. It is very annoying. I…
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Cursor flickers on primary display when fractional scaling is enable for dual monitors on Ubuntu Desktop 20.04
I am experiencing a mouse cursor flickering on my primary display when I enable fractional scaling. I am running Ubuntu 20.04 desktop on a Dell Inspiron XPS 9380 with Intel UHD620 graphics.
I have a dual monitor set-up and, as such, I have 200%…
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Why are Abiword documents flickering since the upgrade to Lubuntu 16?
Lubuntu offered to upgrade itself the other day. I think I was on 14-something and now it's 16-something. All well and good but now all Abiword docs are flickering constantly. (I've noticed it doesn't happen with a new document until something is…
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Black screen flickering after update to 22.04
I've been using 20.04 and I updated to 22.04. After a few days a black flickering appears randomly, it's very annoying and it didn't happen before. Any idea what might be the cause?
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Ubuntu 16.10 screen flicker after monitor wake up
In Ubuntu 16.10, when my monitors wake up on my 3rd generation Intel Core i7 laptop (HD 4000 graphics), I get flickering on both my built in laptop screen and my external display. It goes away when I bring a full screen window to the front.
It only…
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Upgrade to 16.10 causes desktop backlight flickering
I just upgraded to Ubuntu 16.10 and after the restart the display light flickers constantly, regardless of the application running. The flickering
starts when the login screen is shown. I am using a Lenovo Thinkpad E540.
I have NVIDIA GeForce…
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Screen flickering on mouse move (Ubuntu 20/21, Lenovo IdeaPad 5i Pro)
I recently purchased a Lenovo IdeaPad 5i Pro (16IHU6) with the following configuration
CPU: i5-11300H
GPU: nVidia MX450
Display: 2k@120Hz
and I fail to run Ubuntu 20.04/21.10 (to be honest, any Linux so far) on it, without having serious screen…
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Partial flicker/redraw problems on dual-monitor setup
Ever had a time when it seemed that part of your screen couldn't figure out quite what it wanted to display? If so, you'll probably be able to help me out on this question.
I have an HP Elitebook 850 laptop running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (64-bit), and…
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Ubuntu 16.04/17.04/17.10 & CENTOS 6,7: screen flickering and random shutdowns (Lenovo Thinkpad T410)
I ask the same question a couple of weeks ago but the question was closed because it was related to Ubuntu 17.10 which is under development.
However, I have the same (and worse) issues for the LTS 16.04 and for the new Ubuntu 17.04 or 17.10.…
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