I'm told that the *dm tells plymouth (the boot progress screen) to stop. So that's probably what the flicker is related to.
** Summary changed: - gdm3 causes login screen to flickerty with verbos page script + Using gdm3 causes plymouth to ficker to/from VT text ** Summary changed: - Using gdm3 causes plymouth to ficker to/from VT text + Using gdm3 causes plymouth to flicker to/from VT text ** Changed in: gdm3 (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gdm3 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1719002 Title: Using gdm3 causes plymouth to flicker to/from VT text To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm3/+bug/1719002/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs