On Fri, 6 Dec 2019 16:30:14 -0700
"D. R. Evans" <doc.evans@...> wrote:

> > 
> > More info:
> > 
> > The background doesn't flicker at all. What is flickering are the panel
> > and the default icons on the desktop, many times a second.
> > 
> > If I succeed in bringing up the TDE menu (which, if I click enough
> > times, eventually does appear when I succeed in timing a click at a
> > moment when the desktop is accepting input), then the flickering stops
> > for as long as the menu is visible.
> 
> More info:
> 
> After a few minutes of I trying to use this (basically unsable :-( ) TDE,
> it suddenly popped up a dialog that said that the screen was locked and
> requested that I enter my password. When I did that, I was returned to
> the session, but the flickering had stopped.
> 
> So that suggests the question: what causes the screen to lock and the
> popup requesting unlocking to appear? Somehow that seems to be related to
> the flickering problem.
> 
>   Doc
> 
> PS I have no screensaver set.
> 

By any chance, do you have multiple monitors setup via Xorg.conf (not
randr)? Anyway, rename /opt/trinity/bin/kdesktop_lock to something (like
add .NO to it), restart pc and see if it helped.



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  Nick Koretsky (nick.koretsky@...)