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Old 05-31-2026, 09:05 PM   #1
Aminy
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Having problems with the viewer and multiple monitors

When I have a book open in full screen, clicking outside of the monitor to a different monitor, causes flickering as I switch focus from one monitor to another. This behaviour does not appear when the viewer is not in fullscreen mode.

Sometimes the viewer also becomes distorted as I lose focus on the program. Another way to word is when I alt-tab to a something on my second monitor, the viewer has graphical bugs. This bug doesn't have a permanent effect or long term, simply focusing/alt-tabbing/clicking back onto the program will fix the graphical bug. It does cause a lot of annoyance though.

https://imgur.com/a/3kmSdFN (image of the problem)

The first image is what it looks like when I alt-tab, the second image is what the viewer looks like normally. The first image actually shows the previous page somehow as well, it doesn't seem to even show the current page I was viewing.

This bug appears even on the default book that comes along with the calibre as this is the "Quick Start Guide" that is pre-installed when you install calibre.

For the screen flickering issue, a suggestion would be some sort of "full-screen borderless" mode as commonly seen in video games. This sort of viewing option seems to fix a lot of problems when the user wants to use switch programs or use multiple monitors. I am not sure what is causing the graphical bug that causes the viewer to shrink and only display 25% of a screen and also show the prior page.

edit: I am on version 9.8 but this issue has been happening for a while now. My PC is very high end with
Processor AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8-Core Processor 4.20 GHz
Installed RAM 32.0 GB (31.2 GB usable)
Storage 1.82 TB SSD Samsung SSD 980 PRO 2TB
Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER (16 GB)

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