One thing I found during troubleshooting - for my hardware at least the fix in #8:
Section "Device" Identifier "Intel Graphics" Driver "intel" Option "AccelMethod" "sna" Option "TearFree" "true" Option "DRI" "3" EndSection For me adding the Option "DRI" "3 line caused Chrome to begin locking up when right clicking on pages (the menu would begin to display then Chrome would freeze requiring it to be killed - I think it was also causing issues with Xorg / Unity as the desktop itself would not be responsive at the time. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1586539 Title: Major screen flickering in Chromium and Google Chrome To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xorg-server/+bug/1586539/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs