I’ve encountered a rather strange issue that i just cant pin down
A few days ago i had done some updates as i hadn’t done any in a while and after doing those updates ive been having issues with windows on my desktop flashing in and out of existence or certain parts of the window flashing, strangely this doesn’t affect all windows though. Specifically ive found it doesnt affect the Libre office suite, Firefox, Spotify, full screen games, Discord or Thunderbird however it has affected pretty much everything else i have tried.
The issue persists over multiple conditions and doesnt change if its the active window or not or if the cursor is on the window or not.
To fix this i have since completely updated everything that im able to (only things i cant update are Mullvad VPN and r2modman)
Manually removed and re-installed Nvidia drivers
Downgraded my kernel and upgraded it (now sitting on kernel618)
And removed and re-installed xwfm4
I believe this may be due to an update with xwfm4 as thats the window manager im using however i dont know of this for sure as alot of updates were done at the time and im not sure if it was among them but with it being the window manager it seems to be the most likely culprit to me.
Any advice would be much appreciated as im starting to lose my mind trying to fix this issue, thanks.
Edit: Figured i should probably add my specs from neofetch
Current 580xx driver seems to be super unstable. Users who face issues are
recommended to report to NVIDIA
For 580.119.02 the current workaround to avoid issues with flickering under XFCE is to
disable compositing under Settings → Window Manager Tweaks → Compositor → Enable display compositing.
NVIDIA is actively working on fixing this issue
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