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rpadovani
Asked: 2017-02-11 07:17:37 +0800 CST

Screen flickering with Webstorm autocomplete popup

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I have Ubuntu 16.04.1 fully updated.

Sometimes when in Webstorm the autocomplete popup is shown the monitor that has WebStorm flickers for a couple of seconds every time I press a key on the keyboard, making impossible to digit something. I have to change application and wait some minutes before I can use Webstorm again.

I haven't seen the problem with other programs

uname -a   
Linux *** 4.8.0-040800-generic #201610022031 SMP Mon Oct 3 00:32:57 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Graphic card: Intel® Iris Pro Graphics 580 (Skylake GT4e)

16.04

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Try these steps

    sudo gedit /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel-tearfree.conf

    Paste

    Section "Device"
  Identifier  "Intel Graphics"
  Driver      "intel"
  Option      "TearFree"     "true"
EndSection

    Save, and reboot.

    This fixed the screen flickering issue on a Sandy Bridge i5. It might help you too.

    If you want, you can revert the changes whenever you want by typing

    sudo rm /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel-tearfree.conf
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