Heavy flickering on wayland (workaround)

gacuxz · Post by **gacuxz** » 19. Sep 2024, 16:19

There are some topics about Heavy flickering with likely different reasons. In my case flickering started after updating Virtualbox to 7.1.0.

Both Guest/Host are Garuda Linux (based on Arch)

In VM settings 3D Acceleration can't be enabled at the moment like described here viewtopic.php?t=112390 (can't remember it was enabled earlier)

Tried to reinstall Guest from scratch updating it till the date with no results

Guest has up to date Guest Additions installed from Arch's extra repository

Host is always working on Wayland

Flickering is only present if I login into Guest using Wayland session. And it flicks heavily if I move the mouse. There is no flickering if I login into Guest using X11 session.

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Workaround
After logging in into Guest using Wayland sessions, just logout and re-login using the same Wayland session. Hope this will help someone.