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I'm in the same boat as you -- on i3, the Spotify client flickers and just eats CPU. It used to work fine with i3; it was an update about a month ago which caused the issues for me.
I have no idea what spotify-client could be dependant on which isn't available in an i3 session.
With your isse of flickering, I've had the same problem. It seems with a recent update, Spotify doesn't play well with being tiled, if you change it to floating, the flickering stops.
Spotify 0.9.11.27
i3 on Archlinux x64
Exactly the same issue here. Arch Linux with dwm window manager. Issues disappear when starting in floating mode.
I have exactly the same issue, using Debian Wheezy and i3 version 4.2.
Starting spotify using primusrun gets me just black screen. Using optirun i get the flickering.
Also tried running Spotify with "--disable-accelerated-layers --disable-accelerated-fixed-root-background", but no use either.
When you switch to floating mode (Mod+Shift+Space by default) Spotify runs just fine.
I am using an nVidia laptop. Today i installed the bumblebee-nvidia package and it solved the graphical glitches completely.
I had this terrible flickering. It went away using hlwm. Changing to floating mode made it work, but that sucks, mainly because Spotify wanted to be the size of my entire monitor, and would not allow hlwm to resize it. I found a fix though. This is what I did:
This setup seems to work for me, but *NOT* with "Enable 3D Acceleration". In VirtualBox (5.0.26) on Windows 7, if I "Enable 3D Acceleration", launching Spotify on Debian Jessie immediately crashes the VM.
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