Retropie on x86 GalliumOS - Menu Flickering

g2000

Hello everyone. After having success with my last Chromebook / Retropie build, I came across another (slightly better model) chromebook which I decided to give a go. Its an Acer R11 which uses a Braswell processor (as opposed to the Baytrail version I did a while back). Slightly better specs but again nothing to write home about ;) Has at least a touch screen which doesnt help any for retropie, cool when I'm using it to just surf and fold it over like a tablet.

So the issue I am having is as follows: While on the menu, I noticed a slight flicker of the screen. As I went into any menu selections the flickering would get worse. Flickering seems to happen even when I switch it over to HDMI.

Played with the VRAM settings, didn't help.
Disabled all power management settings, screensaver etc.
Added xset s off && xset -dpms in the xsession
Tried using other themes like carbon, no luck
Tried changing the resolution to 1280x720 (native its 1336x768), seemed like that made it worse.
In the shortcut (desktop) added -profile=RetroPie as someone suggested in another post I was reading, didnt make any difference.

The good news is emulation is perfectly fine. Anything I tried worked flawless. Any ideas or thoughts? As always, thanks in advance for any assistance :D :)

mitu

Try disabling the compositor (compton/weston ?) or run EmulationStation as a fullscreen borderless window with:

emulationstation --windowed --resolution 1336 768

g2000

@mitu - Thanks! So adjusting the transparency didn't help (set terminal and panel to solid colors). Tried in windowed mode and that flickering stopped. It seems compton is messing things up. Killed the task: pkill compton and it worked. I'll play around with it some more and let you guys know. Thanks again!!! :D

g2000

Update: Disabled compton from startup and everything works like a charm! Thank you again. :)

jameelperkins31

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