D. R. Evans wrote on 12/6/19 2:30 PM:
> D. R. Evans wrote on 12/6/19 10:54 AM:
>> I just installed TDE on a new-to-me system running debian stable (buster).
>>
>> All the initial system installation was done from a live CD, and it installed
>> KDE. That installed version of KDE works as well as KDE ever works these days.
>> In particular, though, the screen looks fine (1920x1200) and everything works
>> as expected.
>>
>> In the newly-installed TDE, though, the desktop flickers wildly and the
>> desktop is simply unusable: input is lost during the flickers, so most
>> keyboard/mouse input is not even seen by the desktop.
>>
>> Where should I look to try to eliminate all the flickering so that I can get a
>> usable TDE?
>>
>
> 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.
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