Warp constantly flickering-blinking

[jplferreyra-smf]

Warp constantly flickering-blinking

[acarl005]

Hi @jplferreyra-smf thanks for reporting and posting your logs. We believe it's an issue with the Mesa 21.2 drivers. We see similar reports in #4533. Can you try a couple of things that might solve the issue?

1. From a different terminal, start Warp from the CLI with WGPU_BACKEND=gl warp-terminal. This issue might be specific to the vulkan backend and forcing GL might fix it.
2. Run Warp with experimental Wayland support WARP_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 warp-terminal.

Apart from that, the more extreme resolution would be to try upgrading your Mesa drivers to the latest version.

[jplferreyra-smf]

Hello @acarl005, I can help in anything you need.
I already saw the #4533 issue, but the problem here is not exactly the same. My blinking problem happens everytime, not just when selecting text. Already checked and not flashing when selecting text.
I have a coworker with the same issue as mine, I will ask to check the same.

At first glance, using WGPU_BACKEND=gl warp-terminal solved the problem. I've used warp for ten mins and no flickering ocurred, before there was no time without the issue. Is there a way to set this flag to any running instance of warp so I can run it as my default terminal without having to execute it from another one everytime?

[dannyneira]

You can export WGPU_BACKEND=gl in your .profile or .zprofile to load the variables so you can just run Warp from your desktop

[alokedesai]

Hi @jplferreyra-smf, would you mind trying on the newest release of Warp without the WGPU_BACKEND=gl env var? We just pushed a new release that should have fixed these issues. Thanks!

[Jplferreyra]

Hello @alokedesai, already updated warp to version v0.2024.04.16.08.02.stable_03. Unfortunately it didn't solved the issue.
Let me share the logs with you.
log2.txt

[michaelgarciam1]

I updated the Mesa graphics drivers on my Ubuntu system, and the error has been resolved.

[Jplferreyra]

Hello everyone, I updated Mesa drivers and everything looks fine.

[acarl005]

Thanks for the updates y'all! On our end, it looks like we need to adjust how we choose our graphics adapter to try and automatically avoid known buggy graphics adapters.