[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1939211] [NEW] Screen flickering after upgrading from 5.8 kernel to 5.11 kernel

2021-08-07 Thread Ben Bromley
Public bug reported: Hello! After the upgrade to the 5.8 series kernel to the 5.11 series kernel, I have noticed some screen flickering. I had the same problem previously on Fedora after upgrading to the 5.0 series kernel, but this was not present on Ubuntu 20.04 on either the 5.4 or 5.8 series

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1857191] Re: Dark themes don't work well with highlighted current line in gedit

2020-07-22 Thread Ben Bromley
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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1888574] [NEW] Dark mode highlight is too similar to text color

2020-07-22 Thread Ben Bromley
Public bug reported: Hi all! This is just a wishlist bug, but the dark mode in Gedit on Ubuntu doesn't work well for me. In dark mode, the highlight color and the text color are very similar, and the lack of contrast makes it difficult to the see text. Perhaps changing the highlight color to

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1827790] Re: Dell XPS 13 9380 - Screen brightness flashes

2019-09-16 Thread Ben Bromley
I also hit Fn-A, which I saw somewhere (sorry to not have the link) that would disable adaptive brightness. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-settings-daemon in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1827790 Title:

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1827790] Re: Dell XPS 13 9380 - Screen brightness flashes

2019-09-16 Thread Ben Bromley
Alright, here we go. I have the kernel listed above installed: Linux shadeball 5.2.0-9-generic #10~bfo110511 SMP Tue Jul 16 13:17:28 CST 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux I then went into the Power settings and turned Dim Screen When Inactive to off, Blank Screen to Never and so far there have

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1827790] Re: Dell XPS 13 9380 - Screen brightness flashes

2019-09-15 Thread Ben Bromley
But just to confirm, I think the patched kernel did improve the amount of flickering. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-settings-daemon in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1827790 Title: Dell XPS 13 9380 -

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1827790] Re: Dell XPS 13 9380 - Screen brightness flashes

2019-09-15 Thread Ben Bromley
Huh, I wonder if this is a Gnome Shell issue and not a kernel issue after all. After switching to Ubuntu Mate, and uninstalling the kernel mentioned above, I have not had a flicker yet. Anecdotally, I have also heard of people installing KDE on an XPS 13 9380 and also not having this issue. --

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1827790] Re: Dell XPS 13 9380 - Screen brightness flashes

2019-09-12 Thread Ben Bromley
Another error message from a flicker Sep 12 20:28:01 shadeball org.gnome.Shell.desktop[5959]: [6514:6514:0912/202801.632870:ERROR:gl_surface_presentation_helper.cc(259)] GetVSyncParametersIfAvailable() failed for 1280 times! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1827790] Re: Dell XPS 13 9380 - Screen brightness flashes

2019-09-12 Thread Ben Bromley
I ran "journalctl --user" after the last flicker and this is the output from the time around the flicker Sep 12 20:12:34 shadeball org.gnome.Shell.desktop[5959]: [1:1:0912/201234.077664:ERROR:child_process_sandbox_support_impl_linux.cc(81)] FontService unique font name matching request did not

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1827790] Re: Dell XPS 13 9380 - Screen brightness flashes

2019-09-12 Thread Ben Bromley
I am running Ubuntu 19.04 with an XPS 13 9380 with Intel graphics. I installed the kernel mentioned above, and the problem is still occurring. I do a dmesg everytime I see it happen, but I don't see a consistent message every time it happens. I am more than willing to do any and all testing you