Questions tagged [flicker]
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."
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Screen Flicker issue
I am facing Ubuntu Screen flicking issue on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. I have searched on google and found a few of them but none of them work, a few work temporarily but I need a permanent solution. Kindly ...
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Laptop screen cuts out when hinge moved, only in Ubuntu 24.04, not Windows 11
The laptop is dual boot and it does not happen at all in Windows 11. Also when Ubuntu first boots it does not happen, only after a few hours. It's not heat related either as when it's happening in ...
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Text editor screen flickering after updating Ubuntu 22.04.1
A few days ago, I updated my Ubuntu 22.04.1 without paying much attention to the automatic update messages. Ever since then, I've been experiencing screen flickering issues with my NetBeans IDE 21. ...
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Screen flickering in Ubuntu 22
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My laptop screen suddenly started flickering few days ago like shown in the above image. I got my laptop cleaned up and the flickering went away for a few days but started again now. ...
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Screen Flickering and non-functional After suspend [Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS, Lenovo Thinkpad 14s gen3]
I was attempting to fix an issue where the HDMI port on my lenovo does not work with Ubuntu 22.04. Two suggestions I tried were attempting to select a different Nvidia driver in software updates, and ...
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HP elitebook (HP X360 1040 G10) screen flickering (LTS 22.04)
I see similar posts, and tried every solution, but no luck - can anyone help me what I might try to fix this? This is VERY disappointing to say the least.
Further information as requested:
$ lspci -...
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Lenovo Thinkpad AMD Radeon 680M randomly goes black for no obvious reason
The Laptop is new, it's running Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS.
Flickering and screen turning black while browsing, processing etc. More common during graphic related tasks, like raw converter.
Sounds like a ...
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Screen glitching when login user in Kubuntu 22.04 [temporary fixed?]
I just getting update & the system requires me to restart. I do it like the way it told me & everything is normal.
But right after my laptop shows the user login screen, it immediately ...
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Screen flashing/flickering on HP laptop
I am seeing the built-in display on my HP Elitebook Folio G1 (Intel Core m5-6Y57 with Intel HD Graphics 515) flickering after a fresh install of Ubuntu. It’s worth noting that this doesn’t happen on a ...
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Screen Flickering Issue on Incorrect Terminal Commands in Ubuntu
After recently installing Ubuntu on my laptop, I've encountered an unusual issue. Every time I mistakenly enter an incorrect command in the terminal, my entire screen flickers momentarily. To help ...
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Screen flickers after installing Ubuntu 22.04
I installed Ubuntu 22.04 with Windows 11 using Dual Boot on a Lenovo computer and when I log in the screen flickers, not being able to interact well with the OS.
The equipment has the following ...
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My external monitor randomly flickers for between a one and five seconds. Ubuntu 22.04
I am a very yellow guy when it comes to linux so please, explain in to me like I am five.
My external monitor is MSI MAG301 CR2, although the resolution and quality are on point it just randomly ...
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Desktop icons keeps getting re-animated forever
I've recently updated Ubuntu to version 22.04.2. However, the desktop icons keeps re-animated forever. I tried to upgrade my system but it doesn't work. And the opening of files has become really slow....
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Ubuntu 22.04.2 - Screen flickering / glitches
I've been struggling with that for the last week. I've checked similar questions, and the proposed solutions worked only for a moment or reduced the glitches, but they didn't fix the issue. Also, I ...
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Ubuntu Flickering While Installing & Booting
I am an ubuntu user. I installed Ubuntu a few months ago. It worked properly for me. But after about 1 week later, it randomly started flickering while booting, it almost flickered for 10 minutes and ...
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Jammy 22.04 new install with Kubuntu gets flickering screen
I'm running a new install of Jammy (22.04) on Ubuntu with KDE installed, X11, and a NVIDIA 470 driver. I've started noticing that some small parts of the screen start flickering with content from ...
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Flickering Ubuntu after changing mother board
Today I had to change the motherboard in my Dell XPS 13 7390.
Since then the screen is constantly flickering and showing weird lines.
I'm using ubuntu 22.04. I've already checked this issue and other ...
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Dell XPS 17: Weird console/firefox issue as I type characters, where the cursor jumps back in time - but only with an external monitor attached
I'm using Ubuntu 22.04 with the latest updates as of today, on a Dell XPS 9710 (late 2021, early 2022 model) laptop with the UHD 17" LCD screen.
I have a second monitor, a Dell P2715Q 4-K monitor ...
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"[[17~^" is auto added in terminal
When I open the terminal and press 6, it start typing "[[17~^" automatically and it continues. I also noticed that sometime it starts without pressing 6 or any key. Additional issue to that, ...
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Very fast flickering screen (Xubuntu on Lenovo Yoga)
I installed Xubuntu (i.e. ubuntu light) on a (laptop/tablet) Lenovo Yoga 900S 12ISK with HD Graphics 915 video card. After bios update (to allow for Linux) installation went fine but the login screen (...
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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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Screen flickers in Ubuntu 20.04
My screen flickers when I open the lid after having closed the lid earlier, it keeps on flickering and doesn't stop. It flickers even when I go to shell (Ctrl+Alt+F3), but if I lock it again (Super+L) ...
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Screen Flicker on 20.04 with AMD CPU/ Nvidia GPU
I am having a serious screen flicker problem on a laptop with 20.04 and Kernel 5.13.0-27-gneric. I am not sure if the problem came with the recent Kernel upgrade or a little earlier, but it started ...
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How do I revert the last installed updates?
Today I just clicked yes to a few updates that my Ubuntu 20.04 LTS suggested. Since then, when I boot up my laptop everything is fine. But when it goes to suspend and wakes up the screen is flickering ...
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Screen repeatedly goes blank, flickering off and on. Lubuntu 20.04
My screen keeps switching off for about a second, then switching back on. This is getting increasingly annoying. It can happen several times a minute, or not happen at all for an hour or so. It always ...
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Screen flickering on Ubuntu 20.04 with Nvidia 495 under high CPU
I'm having a strange issue for the past couple of months.
I run an Ubuntu 20.04 on a Lenovo Y740 laptop (RTX 2070). With the latest Nvidia drivers (currently, I'm testing with 495), I'm having an ...
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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 ...
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Display flicker on new HP 14S laptop with Ubuntu 20.04
Dual boot installation on new HP 14S laptop using latest Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on a USB stick. The machine has Intel i5 processor with Intel iRIS Xe graphics. When running from the USB it is necessary to ...
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Ubuntu 21.10 Flickering Screen on Wake or Screen Resolution Change
When I wake my computer, the login screen and DE looks like the graphics card is broken (it's not). the screen has flickering lines and blocks of the screen flickering off an on. The manual resolution ...
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Ubuntu lts display is zoomed/scaled after changing dell screen
I used to have screen flickering problem and it became frequent. When I visited the service center they said it is the screen problem and changed the screen in 1 day. Next day when I booted into ...
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Screen flickering on Ubuntu 20.04 - HP Spectre X360 with Intel Skylake GT2 [HD Graphics 520]
I am using Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS on my HP Spectre X360 with Intel Skylake GT2 [HD Graphics 520] and I am having flickering graphics.
Unlike similar entries that have been reported, my flickering is ...
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Screen flickering black after upgrade from 19.04 to 21.04 (ubuntu emulated on virtualbox)
I have a macbook with 10.15.7 and virtualbox 6.1
I just updated ubuntu from 19.04 to 21.04
Now when I login into ubuntu every few (randomly) seconds I get a black screen for a while. It seems a black ...
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Ubuntu flashing screan on power off and turn on after suspend
I installed ubuntu 20.04 on my Dell Studio 1555 laptop and It flashes two or three times when I try to turn it off and when It woke up after suspend.
I had this problem with older versions of Ubuntu ...
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Intense screen flickering, vertical rainbow bars, display problems on Ubuntu 20.04, Lenovo X1 Carbon
Starting today (Aug 24) I observed intense screen flickering and tearing on my Ubuntu 20.04.3 on the Lenovo X1 Carbon. As far as I know, there were no shutdowns, updates, or changes. I observed this ...
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Top row of pixels flicker magenta on any version after 20.04.2 LTS
(For specs please see below)
Hi,
I dualboot Ubuntu and Windows 10 on my laptop. I installed Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS from a live USB and I was using it for quite a while without any problems.
My frustration-...
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Frequent screen flicker after kernel update
Been running Ubuntu for many years. After kernel 5.8.0.55 update to 5.8.0.59 screen flickers once or twice a second. It's variable but is continuous.
Rebooted into kernel 5.8.0.55 and all is well.
New ...
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Screen flickers when opening/closing apps in wayland
I am using Ubuntu 21.04, with AMD Ryzen 5 processor and RX 560X graphic card.
When I open/close any app (Brave,VSCode,Slack etc) screen flicker with a delay of 1 sec it only happens in wayland never ...
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How to stop screen from vibrating?
Couldn't find anybody else with the same or similar problem.
After rebooting my computer one time, it just randomly started flickering all over. It's like my LCD screen is a CRT that's not set up ...
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After Upgrade to ubuntu 18.04 laptop screen was flickering
I am using Dell latitude 3580 model recently i upgrade Ubuntu 18 .After upgrade my laptop screen was flickering frequently i checked Hardware that's fine no issues .Any solution for this to fix ? i ...
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Kubuntu 20.04 - Notification flicker
I am using Kubuntu 20.04 with KDE Plasma 5.18.4
My issue is: The notifications are flickering and I want to get rid of this.
I tried various themes, compositors (OpenGL 3.1, OpenGL 2, XRender) and ...
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Strange graphics issues such as flickering application windows and inconsistent display lagging [duplicate]
My computer was acting really strange; the windows were flickering and parts of windows of different applications were partly appearing at random places. Also when I was typing, my computer seemed to ...
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Flickering GUI Ubuntu 20.04 Desktop
I installed fresh copy of Ubuntu 20.04 Desktop version for more than a month, and everything was okay. Suddenly 3 days ago (without any new installations), everything became crazy whenever (specially ...
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Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS flickering and flashing on/off problem
Hi I have an issue with my laptop. At first I reboot for some reason and the ubuntu login screen didn't show up. Then I have to change the display manager to light-dm. It was gdm3 and it was working ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS flickering screen
I just installed a fresh Ubuntu 20.04 on my Lenovo Z580 laptop and it’s dual boot with Windows 10.
Windows 10 runs fine, but whenever I launch Ubuntu, my PC screen starts flashing continuously. The ...
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Unable to install proprietary nvidia drivers on Xubuntu 20.04
I upgraded a bunch of old machines from Xubuntu 18.04 to 20.04, everything going smooth except a distressing flickering when windows go on focus or scroll (i can briefly see other windows that are in ...
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Colours dots move around when using firefox
Green, blue and black dots show on the screen when I use firefox. They move around and quicker when I write or do a search. Sometimes they appear thicker somtimes less. They don't appear in other ...
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Samsung TV blinking/blanking when connected via a HDMI cable - how do I get it stable?
I'm attempting to use a TV as an external monitor for my laptop, connecting with a HDMI cable. When I plug the cable into HDMI 1 (on the TV, the laptop only has a single HDMI port) both the laptop ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 window flickering/strobing white for specific applications
I've been having lots of graphical issues with specific applications on Ubuntu 18.04 using my Dell Latitude 7490. For instance on GitKraken:
The same thing happens on:
Zoom
Slack
Signal
Skype
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Display weirdness after update, PC unusable
Please forgive me if this is already covered somewhere, I'm using the Stack exchange app on my phone because my PC is unusable.
Today, I ran the usual updates Ubuntu provides me with, but when I ...
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Screen Flickering in 20.04
It wasn't much of a concern at the time, but now I'm forced to use Ubuntu.
There are periods of time where the screen "flickers". By ''flicker'', I mean something refreshing the screen in ...
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