I encountered an issue where adding a smooth caret animation in the atom editor caused the background to start blinking uncontrollably.
Below is the code snippet I used to add the animation in my style.less file:
atom-text-editor .cursor {
transition: all 80ms;
}
Feel free to check out this gif to see what was happening: https://i.sstatic.net/AIXMK.gif
Does anyone know of any CSS that could be used to prevent this issue?
Update:
It turns out that this issue was specific to Ubuntu 18.04. Refer to the answer for a workaround solution.