Bug 431084

Summary:	Cursor flickers when hovering text in Chromium/Falkon
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Vuk Mirovic <contact>
Component:	general	Assignee:	David Edmundson <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal	CC:	plasma-bugs
Priority:	NOR
Version:	5.20.4
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Vuk Mirovic 2021-01-02 23:27:37 UTC

SUMMARY
When hovering with cursor over paragraphs of text like on distrowatch.com, cursor is mostly text selection cursor, but often quickly changes to normal cursor and back, when moving over paragraph. 
I can reproduce behavior in Chromium and Falkon which uses Qt5 WebEngine, but not Firefox 

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Install Chromium or Falkon
2. Open distrowatch.com
3. Move cursor over text paragraphs

OBSERVED RESULT

Cursor flickers

EXPECTED RESULT

Cursor does not flicker

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows: 
macOS: 
Linux/KDE Plasma: Arch Linux
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 5.20.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.77.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Comment 1 Vuk Mirovic 2021-01-04 12:26:11 UTC

Tested in Gnome and it happens there also, so it's browser engine issue probably