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Re:Announcing flicker-free boot for Fedora 29 by Someone on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @03:29AM (#18128239)
”it shows you the desktop as it was when you put it to sleep”

Bad idea, security-wise.

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Re:Announcing flicker-free boot for Fedora 29 by kiriakasis on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @03:38AM (#18128271)
All my gnome setup always did this. I find it deeply broken
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Re:Announcing flicker-free boot for Fedora 29 by audidude on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @05:38PM (#18135051)
My understanding when looking back at those bugs, is that they were driver bugs where the driver lied about having committed to the back-buffer. GNOME, at least, tries to blank things and submit the right commands to ensure it's cleared before releasing the suspend lock.

But if the GPU driver is broken about command committal, then there is only so much you can do short of fixing those .

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Re:Announcing flicker-free boot for Fedora 29 by puzzlingcaptcha on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @03:58AM (#18128350)
reminds me of https://url.rw/?https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jwz.org%2Fblog%2F2014%2F04... (jwz's blog doesn't like HN as a referer)
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