On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 1:11 PM, David Edmundson <da...@davidedmundson.co.uk> wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 12:13 PM, Marco Martin <notm...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> 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 > > > I have this kate problem sometimes. > > I'll track here: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=385692 >
I'm running since a while with https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/208449/ and the problem is gone, is a breezenow to use =D -- Marco Martin
