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Screen distorts (shimmers, wavy lines/appearance) when scrolling in any web page.

Disabling hardware acceleration and smooth scrolling, doesn't make any difference.

Problem doesn't exist in Chromium on Xubuntu 16.04 or in Firefox 46 running on Ubuntu 14.04.

Edit: Re-installed Xubuntu 16.04 (including Firefox) and thin wavy line still experienced when scrolling, usually near the middle of the screen. Disabling hardware acceleration and smooth scrolling now makes the display usable but jerky.

Looking back, there appears to have been similar problems with various versions of Firefox and releases of Ubuntu/Xubuntu in the past, so suspect there is no solution as might be hardware (display driver) related.

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Compositor in xfce causes display problems sometimes. Go to Settings → Window Manager Tweak → Compositor and uncheck the Enable display compositing (if you don't need any of the visual effects) and see if that helps. I'm not sure (correct me if I'm wrong), but I believe that before xubuntu 14.04 compositor was disabled by default.

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  • Tried it and made no difference. Thanks anyway.
    – Blue66
    May 22, 2016 at 15:11
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Turning off Compositor worked for my laptop, I have been trying to fix this for so long ! Laptop: Thinkpad T450s with Xubuntu 16.04

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