New budgie install issues

Axios

Installed budgie on Lenovo ideapad FLEX 4-1470
Have couple issues can not set to auto login I can toggle it but it wont stay set
and random screen flickers.

Note somehow autologin changed works now (but still have the flickers)
Intel® HD Graphics 510 (SKL GT1)
Had the flickering issue with plasma to when I tested it.

BuzzPCSOS

Flickering screen, maybe when your mouse cursor is at a particular position on the screen?
This was a fix for my Intel 620 graphics card. The patch can be applied to the Live system and then logging off and back on again.

FIXING SCREEN FLICKER INTEL HD520 & 620 GRAPHICS CARDS
~~At /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ Create a file~~
At /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ Create a file

You should name your file.conf: 20-intel_flicker_fix.conf

And place the following inside:

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

Log off and back on again (live session) or reboot (installed).

Edited to reflect advice from @ReillyBrogan

WetGeek

BuzzPCSOS

Thank you for posting that again! I didn't bother the first time I saw it, figuring it would be cured by a later update, but it hasn't been, and it's been annoying me ever since.

Axios

BuzzPCSOS Ya late last nite after I posted that I remb the 20-intel.conf
did it and all is well.
Thanks for posting anyways.

ReillyBrogan

BuzzPCSOS Slight correction, /usr/ is for system-installed files and you should generally not put things there directly. Instead, use /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d for configuration files like that.

laurker

BuzzPCSOS Just wanna add that I tried your suggestion from the original thread, and it fixed a similar issues I was having on my Intel HD 520. I'm extremely grateful! But this isn't a Budgie issue, as I couldn't make Fedora or Ubuntu Budgie editions flicker. OTOH it seemed common to all flavours of Solus. Can the fix be packaged with future releases of the distro, so other Intel iGPU users don't face the same problem? Or would it cause problems for other hardware configurations? In which case, what are Fedora and Ubuntu doing right?

BuzzPCSOS

ReillyBrogan Thank you for that. I will update my notes so that if I reinstall in the future then the file will be in the right place.

Axios

laurker Yes I think that little issue could be taken care of but dont know the ramifications
of doing so.
Seems like all the intel stuff on solus has it (I just forgot about it.)

BuzzPCSOS

laurker

laurker I spent a lot of time trying to get to the bottom of this a year or so ago and eventually found the fix on a Ubuntu forum. In the process I ran a lot of other distros that did not have the flickering issue, in fact the only one I found that had the same problem was Linux Light OS, which was ironic because I had moved on to Solus because of the flickering screen issues with Linux Light OS.
Very glad to have found a fix and to still be with Solus in 2024, it is a great OS with a wonderful community.
It would be interesting to see if building the intel_flicker_fix into the distros has any detrimental effects for users without Intel HD Graphics cards.
Maybe an enablement package could be added to the repository so that the fix could be applied by less skilled users. Just a thought.
Edit
Quite correct this is not a Budgie issue as I found the same glitch on all flavours of Solus. As I remember applying the patch to Live sessions and logging off and back on again fixed it on all of them.

Axios

BuzzPCSOS I had those issues way back when using linux lite but did not know about fix
it got so bad I gave up on linux.
But got be fair didnt have the hardware I got today more current.