Nicholas A. FerrellI ran a full upgrade on my desktop workstation (EndeavourOS, which is based on Arch). One of the upgraded packages was nvidia-open-dkms. After the upgrade was complete, applications were flickering on my desktop. The same thing happened last week (I fixed with a “downgrade”). I decided that I did not want to downgrade again, so I investigated. Some posts in the EndeavourOS forum indicated that the issue was particular to XFCE. I decided to try a different desktop environment, preferably one I could set up quickly to go with my workflow and one that would not come with a whole slate of stuff I do not need. I landed on Cinnamon. I had only used Cinnamon for about 10 minutes before, but it works well (no flickering) and I configured some of my shortcuts from XFCE. It will do.
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