Short flicker during program load when on the Main Display

[guyyst]

I am writing a small image viewer and when I start my program it shows the image I loaded, flickers to black, and back to the image.
Strangely, when I set up my window to start on a secondary monitor the flickering goes away.

I filmed my left monitor (configured as the main display) while opening an image (for testing it's just a green BG) with my editor. A series of images of the launch (~200 ms):
http://i.imgur.com/s9jc8n7.png
As you can see the screen starts out green but then flashes to black and back to green.

This is what it looks like when I set my other monitor (right) as the main display but make sure that the window is still being displayed on the left monitor using window.setPosition(sf::Vector2i(-1920, 0)).
http://i.imgur.com/F8W38I9.png
No flickering.

I stripped down my code to this and it's still happening:

int main()
{
        sf::RenderWindow window(sf::VideoMode(1920, 1080), "Test", sf::Style::None);
        window.setPosition(sf::Vector2i(0, 0));

        //window.setPosition(sf::Vector2i(-1920, 0));
        //This would make it work for my left monitor if it were configured as a secondary display

        while (window.isOpen())
        {
                sf::Event event;
                while (window.pollEvent(event))
                {
                        switch (event.type)
                        {
                        case sf::Event::Closed:
                                return 0;
                        }
                }
                window.clear(sf::Color::Green);
                window.display();
        }
        return 0;
}
 

Changing the window style to full screen doesn't help either.
If I were to offset the window by 1+ pixel, so that the task bar is overlapping the window, the issue is gone.
Is this a problem with full screen/borderless full screen (achieved with sf::style::None) on the main display, or just the expected behavior for such an application?

[Rhimlock]

Just a wild guess:
Is your graphics-driver up to date?

[guyyst]

Just a wild guess:
Is your graphics-driver up to date?

Yes, I'm using the driver version 353.82 on the GTX 780.

[mkalex777]

at a glance, it seems that your issue related to display mode change.
Try to replace Style.None with Style.Default. I think it will eliminate your flicks.

Something like that:

sf::RenderWindow window(sf::VideoMode(800, 600), "Test", sf::Style::Default);
 

If you need to switch into fullscreen mode, then use this code:

sf::RenderWindow window(sf::VideoMode::DesktopMode, "Test", sf::Style::Fullscreen);
 

But the last code leads to display flicker due display mode change