Bug 496904

Summary: Cursor shape often does not change to hand when first hovering over a link
Product: [Applications] Falkon Reporter: thomholwerda <thomholwerda>
Component: generalAssignee: Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: normal CC: john.kizer, kokochu
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 24.12.3   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Fedora RPMs   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:
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Description thomholwerda@osnews.com 2024-12-01 20:10:39 UTC 
SUMMARY
The cursor often does not change to the hand shape when hovering over a link. Weirdly enough, if you jiggle the cursor over the link a bit, it will sometimes properly change to the hand cursor, but not always. On rare occasions, it *will* properly change to the hand cursor. I can find no rhyme or reason behind it.

This is way more annoying than a mere description makes it seem, especially with how visually cluttered modern web "design" is.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Take your lovely pointy arrow cursor.
2. Hover it over a link.

OBSERVED RESULT
It remains a lovely pointy arrow cursor.

EXPECTED RESULT
It turns into the hand cursor.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: Fedora Linux 41 (kernel 6.11.10-300.fc41.x86_64)
KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.4 (Wayland)
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.8.0
Qt Version: 6.8.0
Comment 1 John Kizer 2024-12-11 04:43:14 UTC 
I can confirm this on the Flatpak package of 24.08.3.
Comment 2 kokochu 2025-03-16 16:10:24 UTC 
This still happens on 24.12.3 from Arch/Extra repo.

It is the main reason I rarely use Falkon as it's annoying having to keep an eye on the bottom left of the screen to see if something is a link or not.