Weird blink on Splash Screen

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I’m seeing this oddly blinking on the splash screen since the fresh install. I’ve also tried switching kernel & everything neither it’s a downloaded splash screen bug.

https://giphy.com/gifs/5DsJmpX5S3NlfOZKZ4

System:
  Kernel: 5.14.0-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0 
  parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.14-x86_64 
  root=UUID=261e3e34-3aa2-4cb0-85bb-1358fb778207 rw quiet udev.log_priority=3 
  acpi_backlight=native idle=nomwait processor.max_cstate=5 
  Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.22.4 tk: Qt 5.15.2 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM 
  Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: VivoBook_ASUS Laptop X505ZA_X505ZA 
  v: 1.0 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: ASUSTeK model: X505ZA v: 1.0 serial: <filter> 
  UEFI: American Megatrends v: X505ZA.313 date: 02/25/2020 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 22.3 Wh (95.7%) condition: 23.3/42.1 Wh (55.4%) 
  volts: 11.5 min: 11.5 model: ASUSTeK ASUS Battery type: Li-ion serial: N/A 
  status: Discharging cycles: 1041 
Memory:
  RAM: total: 6.73 GiB used: 3.02 GiB (44.8%) 
  RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
CPU:
  Info: Quad Core model: AMD Ryzen 5 2500U with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx 
  bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen family: 17 (23) model-id: 11 (17) 
  stepping: 0 microcode: 8101007 cache: L2: 2 MiB bogomips: 31952 
  Speed: 1549 MHz min/max: 1600/2000 MHz boost: disabled Core speeds (MHz): 
  1: 1549 2: 1504 3: 1609 4: 1369 5: 1564 6: 1260 7: 1403 8: 1449 
  Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm adx aes aperfmperf apic arat avic avx avx2 bmi1 
  bmi2 bpext clflush clflushopt clzero cmov cmp_legacy constant_tsc cpb cpuid 
  cr8_legacy cx16 cx8 de decodeassists extapic extd_apicid f16c flushbyasid 
  fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr fxsr_opt ht hw_pstate ibpb irperf lahf_lm lbrv lm mca 
  mce misalignsse mmx mmxext monitor movbe msr mtrr mwaitx nonstop_tsc nopl 
  npt nrip_save nx osvw overflow_recov pae pat pausefilter pclmulqdq pdpe1gb 
  perfctr_core perfctr_llc perfctr_nb pfthreshold pge pni popcnt pse pse36 
  rapl rdrand rdseed rdtscp rep_good sep sev sev_es sha_ni skinit smap smca 
  sme smep ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 succor svm svm_lock syscall 
  tce topoext tsc tsc_scale v_vmsave_vmload vgif vmcb_clean vme vmmcall wdt 
  xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveerptr xsaveopt xsaves 
  Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected 
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected 
  Type: mds status: Not affected 
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected 
  Type: spec_store_bypass 
  mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
  Type: spectre_v1 
  mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full AMD retpoline, IBPB: conditional, STIBP: 
  disabled, RSB filling 
  Type: srbds status: Not affected 
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Raven Ridge [Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Vega Mobile Series] 
  vendor: ASUSTeK driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:15dd 
  class-ID: 0300 
  Device-2: IMC Networks USB2.0 VGA UVC WebCam type: USB driver: uvcvideo 
  bus-ID: 3-2.1:3 chip-ID: 13d3:5a03 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter> 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: 
  loaded: amdgpu display-ID: :0 screens: 1 
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.0x11.2") 
  s-diag: 582mm (22.9") 
  Monitor-1: eDP res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 142 size: 344x193mm (13.5x7.6") 
  diag: 394mm (15.5") 
  OpenGL: renderer: AMD Radeon Vega 8 Graphics (RAVEN DRM 3.42.0 
  5.14.0-1-MANJARO LLVM 12.0.1) 
  v: 4.6 Mesa 21.1.5 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD Raven/Raven2/Fenghuang HDMI/DP Audio driver: snd_hda_intel 
  v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:15de class-ID: 0403 
  Device-2: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel 
  v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3 class-ID: 0403 
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.14.0-1-MANJARO running: yes 
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.19 running: no 
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: no 
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.32 running: yes 
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Wireless 8265 / 8275 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel 
  bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:24fd class-ID: 0280 
  IF: wlp1s0 state: up mac: <filter> 
  IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global 
  broadcast: <filter> 
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link 
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
  vendor: ASUSTeK driver: r8169 v: kernel port: f000 bus-ID: 02:00.0 
  chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200 
  IF: enp2s0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  WAN IP: <filter> 
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 
  bus-ID: 3-2.2:4 chip-ID: 8087:0a2b class-ID: e001 
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: down bt-service: enabled,running 
  rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: see --recommends 
Logical:
  Message: No logical block device data found. 
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data found. 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 48.45 GiB (5.2%) 
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Seagate model: ST1000LM035-1RK172 
  size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s 
  type: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter> rev: 0001 scheme: GPT 
  Message: No optical or floppy data found. 
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 82.12 GiB size: 80.28 GiB (97.76%) used: 48.41 GiB (60.3%) 
  fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda4 maj-min: 8:4 label: N/A 
  uuid: 261e3e34-3aa2-4cb0-85bb-1358fb778207 
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 260 MiB size: 256 MiB (98.46%) 
  used: 36.6 MiB (14.3%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 label: SYSTEM 
  uuid: 226E-201B 
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found. 
Unmounted:
  ID-1: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 size: 16 MiB fs: <superuser required> 
  label: N/A uuid: N/A 
  ID-2: /dev/sda3 maj-min: 8:3 size: 356.67 GiB fs: ntfs label: OS 
  uuid: DE1E71131E70E5C5 
  ID-3: /dev/sda5 maj-min: 8:5 size: 468.6 GiB fs: ntfs label: New Volume 
  uuid: 0402A78D02A78272 
  ID-4: /dev/sda7 maj-min: 8:7 size: 850 MiB fs: ntfs label: RECOVERY 
  uuid: A04AD8624AD8372E 
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s 
  chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-3: 3-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-4: 3-2:2 info: Alcor Micro USB Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s 
  power: 100mA chip-ID: 058f:6254 class-ID: 0900 
  Device-1: 3-2.1:3 info: IMC Networks USB2.0 VGA UVC WebCam type: Video 
  driver: uvcvideo interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA 
  chip-ID: 13d3:5a03 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter> 
  Device-2: 3-2.2:4 info: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface type: Bluetooth 
  driver: btusb interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA 
  chip-ID: 8087:0a2b class-ID: e001 
  Hub-5: 4-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 1 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s 
  chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 71.6 C mobo: 71.0 C gpu: amdgpu temp: 71.0 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0 
Info:
  Processes: 276 Uptime: 3m wakeups: 1 Init: systemd v: 248 tool: systemctl 
  Compilers: gcc: 11.1.0 Packages: pacman: 1149 lib: 298 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.8 
  running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.06
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Does this happen only when you use this splash screen? Have you seen this blinking on the preinstalled ones?

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Do you use Plymouth? Maybe try bootsplash.
How to use bootsplash:

  1. Install bootsplash-systemd
  2. Install whatever bootsplash-theme you’d like. You can search for bootsplash-theme in the repository.
  3. Add the below command to your kernel command for your boot loader (grub or systemd-boot):
bootsplash.bootfile=bootsplash-themes/<THEME-NAME>/bootsplash

You can check the theme file in

/usr/lib/firmware/bootsplash-themes
  1. Add <THEME-NAME> to HOOKS in /etc/mkinitcipo.conf to make it like this,
HOOKS=(base udev autodetect modconf block keyboard zfs filesystems bootsplash-<THEME-NAME>)

and then regenerate the initramfs:

sudo mkinitcpio -P
  1. Reboot and you’re good to go.

Let us know if it solves your problem. For me it only blinks once when SDDM is ready.

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Don’t we also need to edit the /etc/mkinitcpio.conf file and add <THEME-NAME> to HOOKS and also regenerate initramfs before reboot using

sudo mkinitcpio -p linux###

[where ### is the kernel version being used]? :thinking:

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no, i get blink in splash screen after i login from SDDM

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yes, it only blinks when i boot first time after that if i logout the session and login again it goes normally & i remember this does’t use to happen years ago but then i tried other distros and then i went back to manjaro KDE & i’m seeing this

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I’m not sure if it’s related, but after the most recent Manjaro stable updates (which included KDE packages) I see a brief flash/interruption before logging into KDE the first time after a reboot. It lasts only a second and other than that nothing else is affected.

I write it off as some minor cosmetic issue.

UPDATE: As a “hint”, sometimes I’ll notice during this quick interruption that the “generic X11 crosshair cursor” appears near the bottom of the screen very briefly. Not sure what it means, but interesting to note.

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IDK but it’s happening for a very long time. I’ve disabled the splash screen for now.