Screen flicker on F8 and GNOME

[Aravind Seshadri]

On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 16:15 -0200, Mauricio Pretto wrote:
> Check if you dont have the visual system beep enabled in the sound
> preferences.
> 
> Pretto
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MauricioPretto
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Aravind Seshadri wrote:
> > With Fedora 8 and GNOME I see screen flicker. The screen does not
> > flicker always but happens during certain events. Like for example 
> >
> > (1) if I type a command in Terminal and press tab to auto complete the
> > command, the screen flickers. Or when I press backspace without anything
> > typed in the command line.
> >
> > (2) in gedit (or System log viewer) when I am at the end of the file and
> > when I press the down arrow or when I press the page down button.
> >
> > (3) when new mail arrives in Evolution. I have a mail notification setup
> > and whenever a new mail arrives the screen flickers.
> >
> > (4) pressing backspace in an empty text filed (in Evolution To, Cc, Bcc
> > and subject filed also in Run Application text field etc.)
> >
> > It seems like the screen flicker occurs only in GNOME. I installed Xfce
> > and I did not encounter this behavior. Does not look like a graphics
> > card problem since it happens only when these events are triggered and
> > also I did not see this in Fedora 7 or in Fedora Core 6 on this same
> > computer.
> >
> > Anyone know what might be going wrong?
> >
> >   
> 
Thanks. That was it. I did not realize that was causing it.

-- 
Best Regards,
Aravind 
http://www.aravind.name
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