Why is Display flickering in Chrome/Chromium of Zenbook UX303UA with Google Plus?

Solution 1:

It's a bug in Xorg 1.18 that 16.04 ships with.

You can fix it like so:

sudo nano /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf

Paste this:

Section "Device"
   Identifier "Intel Graphics"
   Driver "intel"
   Option "AccelMethod" "sna"
   Option "TearFree" "true"
   Option "DRI" "3"
EndSection

Save (CTRL + O) and reboot.

Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/1586539 and https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=606152

If this does not work, try this:

1. sudo apt-get purge xserver-xorg-video-intel
2. sudo rm /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf (for those who created this file before)
3. reboot

If this also does not work, please install xserver-xorg-video-intel again.

sudo apt install xserver-xorg-video-intel