Qubes.dom0.icon update fails and interface starts flickering

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#1

this happens after some time after every reboot, mostly when i open a lot of vm’s simultaneously, or one vm has been on for a long time.
there are multiple notifications in the lower corner that qubes icon update has failed ,
And the whole kde interface becomes very jittery and flickery.
The menu’s flicker, i cannott read the launcher, not even the titles of the applications.
And nothing i do sets this right apart from restart.

i am on a 12700k on a testing build. and it is stable so far, but just this little glitch, and my default gpu is gt 730 gdddr5 2gb
so i t can be a video ram issue ??
i have just now set the video ram configuration suggested in qubes docs.

is there anything else you can think of that can cause this?
Please help

#2

KDE is not official in Qubes as far as I know, so the fact should be kept on mind while 'blaming" Qubes and the devs.
I am sure you agree with this.

#3

didn’t blame anyone, just need help…
Tell me which part of my writeup is blaming and i will edit it

#4

New users reading this would be discouraged to use Qubes, right?

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#5

changed! sorry

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#6

seems to be a videoram issue, ill update if solved

#7

Until someone come up with a suggestion, feel free to search the forum for flickering, maybe you can find something helpful. There are only 23 results for the term:

https://forum.qubes-os.org/search?q=flickering

#8

this seems to have something to do with vm’s that have been running for sometime in the background.
And happens more with whonix vms

#9

i noticed i have qubes installed without swap and this issue happens more when i wake system from suspend and windows have been ongoing for sometime.
Could this be a swap issue??/
how do i now decrease size of my encrypted disk and add swap

#10

Is actually zswap used for hibernation in Qubes?

#11

don’t know …