NVidia XFWM Display Flicker

2026-02-14 15:16:56 PST

Bart Massey 2026-02-14

Is your NVidia 3060 running open-source X11 drivers version 580.119 or later? Are you using Xfce4 xfwm4 as your window manager with compositing turned on? Are you seeing weird flickering and display artifacts all the time?

xfconf-query -c xfwm4 -p /general/vblank_mode -s xpresent

and then restart X (or at least the window manager).

Fixed it for me. Thanks Claude.

Honestly, I should probably just stop running xfwm4 or at least turn off compositing. It seems to be massively fragile and buggy. But the XPresent extension is the right way to do this anyhow, so yay I guess?