i discovered that killing krunner after startkde has been executed fixes the problems this is a stupid hack, but it does the job - if you don't rely on krunner to start your programs
starting it again makes the screen flashes re-appear. -- Monitor screen flashes on use of keyboard and mouse https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/291691 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs