I’ve recently started experiencing a strange issue with my laptop (Dell XPS 9570) where the screen seems to flicker back between its current state and the state it was at a few frames ago. It’s really distracting when I’m typing because the text will seem to disappear, only to reappear if I type some more.
I don’t recall anything in particular I might have changed to cause this issue, and it only seems to be a problem when I’m typing. It’s especially bad when I’m typing into kitty
or Slack, occurs much less frequently in Firefox, and is nonexistent in Telegram. I don’t observe this artifact when watching videos or any other kind of moving content, only when I’m typing.
Here’s my inxi
output:
System: Kernel: 5.9.11-3-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.0 Desktop: GNOME 3.38.1 tk: GTK 3.24.23
wm: gnome-shell dm: GDM Distro: Manjaro Linux
Machine: Type: Laptop System: Dell product: XPS 15 9570 v: N/A serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <filter>
Mobo: Dell model: 02MJVY v: A00 serial: <filter> UEFI: Dell v: 1.17.1 date: 07/09/2020
Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 57.9 Wh condition: 64.3/97.0 Wh (66%) volts: 12.6/11.4 model: LGC-LGC8.33 DELL 5XJ28
serial: <filter> status: Charging
CPU: Info: 6-Core model: Intel Core i7-8750H bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Kaby Lake rev: A L2 cache: 9216 KiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 52815
Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 800/4100 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800 5: 800 6: 800 7: 800 8: 800
9: 800 10: 800 11: 800 12: 800
Graphics: Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 630 vendor: Dell driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:3e9b
Device-2: NVIDIA GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile] driver: nvidia v: 455.45.01 bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 10de:1c8c
Device-3: Microdia Integrated_Webcam_HD type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus ID: 1-12:4 chip ID: 0c45:671d
Display: x11 server: X.org 1.20.10 compositor: gnome-shell driver: modesetting,nvidia unloaded: intel,nouveau
alternate: fbdev,nv,vesa resolution: <xdpyinfo missing>
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 630 (CFL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.2.3 direct render: Yes
Audio: Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1f.3
chip ID: 8086:a348
Device-2: C-Media Q9-1 type: USB driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus ID: 1-5.3:10 chip ID: 0d8c:0135
Device-3: Razer USA Gaming Webcam [Kiyo] type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo bus ID: 1-2:8 chip ID: 1532:0e03
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.9.11-3-MANJARO
Network: Device-1: Intel Wireless-AC 9260 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: 3000 bus ID: 3b:00.0 chip ID: 8086:2526
IF: wlp59s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Device-2: Intel Wireless-AC 9260 Bluetooth Adapter type: USB driver: btusb bus ID: 1-4:2 chip ID: 8087:0025
IF-ID-1: vpn0 state: up speed: 10 Mbps duplex: full mac: N/A
Drives: Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 266.12 GiB (55.8%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Toshiba model: KXG50ZNV512G NVMe 512GB size: 476.94 GiB speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4
serial: <filter>
Partition: ID-1: / size: 210.47 GiB used: 69.56 GiB (33.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-0
Swap: ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 7.70 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p6
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 66.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 2490 fan-2: 2488
Info: Processes: 383 Uptime: 9h 22m Memory: 15.26 GiB used: 4.67 GiB (30.6%) Init: systemd v: 246 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0
clang: 11.0.0 Packages: pacman: 1522 Shell: Zsh v: 5.8 running in: kitty inxi: 3.1.08