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Bug 609953 - Flicker with notifications and clock interaction
Flicker with notifications and clock interaction
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 613936
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: drivers
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-02-15 00:25 UTC by António Lima
Modified: 2010-03-31 11:43 UTC
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Description António Lima 2010-02-15 00:25:08 UTC 
I'm having gnome-shell flickering many times when notifications pop-up or when I open the panel clock.

The screen just gets dark for very short periods of time (e.g. less then a second.

I'm using the proprietary nvidia drivers with fedora 12.
Comment 1 Piotr Podgorski 2010-02-28 11:01:49 UTC 
I confirm this.

I'm having the exact same issues on Ubuntu Karmic with Gnome Shell from the Ricotz PPA. My graphics card is GeForce FX5700 and I use the newest binary drivers available for this card (from the Karmic repos).

I've been advised on the Gnome Shell IRC channel to try using the CLUTTER_VBLANK=none environment variable. This does makes things a little better as the flickering is far less frequent, but it still happens, mainly with notifications.
Comment 2 drago01 2010-03-31 11:43:21 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 613936 ***