On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 5:20 PM, Martin Flöser <mgraess...@kde.org> wrote: >> yep, i like it and i'll try! >> some times tough some help is needed to even figure out where the problem >> is... >> for tme the thing that makes my laptop unusable with wayland is a very bad >> flicker in many qwidget apps, especially kate and to a lesse extent >> dolphin are >> pretty much blinking like disco lights just by moving the mouse on top of >> the >> app window. >> >> Where should i start to look about that? > > > Most likely in Qt. I had seen this once in kate as well and it looked to me > like either Qt is not updating correctly (single buffering?) or what I > consider more likely this is a tooltip issue. At least in dolphin I see that > tooltips open and are not properly marked as a transient. If it is now under > the mouse we get flicker, because it opens, gains focus and dolphin then > destroys it again and the complete process repeats. I hope that the Qt 5.9.2 > fixes that.
one thing i noticed which i don't know if it's of any indication, is that on weston (and kate still using the wayland qpa) that flicker doesn't happen -- Marco Martin
