Sublime now flashing when it has the focus

[steadyonabix]

Hi

New to the forum and sublime text so if you want any extra debug info, please tell me how to get it when you ask. Thanks

I have an issue with Sublime Text running on my MAC in that the window title bar and footer now pulse or flash continuously when the window has the focus. This isn’t just irritating, I have issues with my eyes that leave me dependent on rock steady hi def images when using a screen.

Is this a known bug? I haven’t found any mention of it when searching for “flashing” or “pulsing” in the posts.

My Sublime Text version is - 3.2.1 Build 3207
My Laptop - Mac Pro running Mojave 10.14.4

Thanks

Brad

[zachfeldman]

Just got this issue after updating! It’s super annoying. Is there a fix being worked on? Thanks for your help!

[deathaxe]

This Mac build is known to be very buggy with regards of OpenGL support.

For a possible workaround please refere to:

Crash or Memory Leak on macOS Mojave 10.14.4?

If you are experiencing crashes or memory leaks on macOS 10.14.4, please try changing the gpu_window_buffer setting in Preferences to false, and then restart Sublime Text. Example settings: { "gpu_window_buffer": false, } Unfortunately it appears that Apple’s NSOpenGLView is rather buggy in 10.14.4 and can easily lead to crashes with DisplayLink adapters, eGPUs, some graphics cards and in other unconfirmed situations. Disabling the gpu_window_buffer optimization works around this issue unt…

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duplicate of Screen flickering?

[regex_yoda]

I got this, too. MacOS Catalina 10.15.1. I added gpu_window_buffer=false, restarted and it fixed. Then I removed the line and restarted and it is still fixed. Maybe something needed resetting somehow.

Details: It was flashing/pulsing a few times per second (ie constantly) which is extremely annoying. It is like a visual-beep/screen-brightening flash like it is trying to alert me I did something wrong. Only I am not even typing or moving the mouse and it never stops. Last week it was flashing just once in a while maybe every 20 seconds but it just got worse today.