Bug 509302

Summary:	flickering in fullscreen applications on notebook screen
Product:	[Plasma] kwin	Reporter:	Jernej <jernej.srebrnic>
Component:	wayland-generic	Assignee:	KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	normal	CC:	xaver.hugl
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	6.4.4
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Jernej 2025-09-09 11:03:14 UTC

SUMMARY
Full screen chome or eletron based app flikers.


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. tems meting -> fullscreen 
2. starts bilking


OBSERVED RESULT
notebook screen blinks, attached external monitor (display port) does not
night mode color do no effect behavior 
not all aplications , FF(143.0b9 (64-bit)) in full screen  mode works  as expected (played you tube and static content)

EXPECTED RESULT
stable screen on bouth

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: KDE neon User Edition
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU -> driver 570.181
KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.17.0
Qt Version: 6.9.2
Kernel Version: 6.14.0-29-generic (64-bit)
Processors:  13th Gen Intel® Core™ i9-13900HX

solution 1:
notebook display 240Hz , to make it stop flickering when full screen , lowered refresh to 60Hz (only other option (240/60) )

solution 2:
240Hz, but adaptive sync set to off

ralated forum entry:
https://discuss.kde.org/t/flickering-in-fullscreen-applications-on-wayland-with-night-light-enabled/30822

Comment 1 Zamundaaa 2025-09-09 13:57:31 UTC

This is almost certainly a driver bug, please report it at https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/c/gpu-graphics/linux/148