It could. It would not cause electrical interference. The desktop environment controls the display manager.
-- Jerry Feldman <[email protected]> Boston Linux and Unix http://www.blu.org PGP key id: 6F6BB6E7 PGP Key fingerprint: 0EDC 2FF5 53A6 8EED 84D1 3050 5715 B88D 6F6 B B6E7 On Tue, Jul 28, 2020, 7:09 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > I was logged in with the MATE desktop and after I opened an Incognito > window in Chromium - thus displaying a (mostly) black window, I noticed > waves in the display, as if there were some sort of electrical interference > affecting the monitor. The analog video cable running from the PC to the > monitor has one of those magnets built into the cable. > > I eventually logged out of MATE and logged in with LXQt. When I checked > the Incognito window in Chromium under LXQt, the waves in the display were > gone. > > The video chip (onboard) is: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS780L > [Radeon 3000] > > The monitor is a Sceptre X9g Naga III (19"). > > Could something in MATE - or that loaded in with it, could have caused the > video interference? > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
