Bug 424896 - My cursor flicker (part of it appear and disappear quickly)
Summary: My cursor flicker (part of it appear and disappear quickly)
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Alias: None
Product: kwin
Classification: Plasma
Component: compositing (show other bugs)
Version: 5.18.5
Platform: openSUSE Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: KWin default assignee
URL:
Keywords:
: 393639 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2020-08-01 13:55 UTC by pier andre
Modified: 2023-09-06 10:38 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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cursor that disappear in a 3mm strip at 2-3cm from the top of the screen (154.93 KB, image/jpeg)
2020-08-01 16:31 UTC, pier andre
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Description pier andre 2020-08-01 13:55:24 UTC
SUMMARY=My cursor flicker (part of it appear and disappear quickly) using opensuse leap 15.2 with KDE, mainly when pass over tabs in web browsers and also dolphin and a bit less also if it is stationary, in leap 15.1 everything is ok.
may laptop is TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 15 v4, ssd disk=2Tb, /home EXT3 partition=58Gb, processor= Intel Core i7-8565U, RAM=32Gb, graphics card Model: Intel UHD Graphics 620 (Whiskey Lake), it happens with all the cursor themes I used, breeze, breeze green, oxygen yellow, blue and many other. I tried also with plasma wayland and plasma full wayland, cursor doesn't flicker but in both wayland some applications (telegram desktop and brave prowser and other) doesn't works.


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. open a web browser and move the cursor on tabs


OBSERVED RESULT
cursor flicker

EXPECTED RESULT
cursor do not flicker

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: 
opensuse leap 15.2
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Comment 1 pier andre 2020-08-01 16:31:11 UTC
Created attachment 130557 [details]
cursor that disappear in a 3mm strip at 2-3cm from the top of the screen

the cursor flicker disappearing in this zone along all the screen
Comment 2 pier andre 2020-08-01 17:29:02 UTC
cursor flickering 
https://youtu.be/QtNh6hlzLCg
cursor flicker on the blue strip of facebook page viewed at full window
Comment 3 Zamundaaa 2022-02-20 14:33:37 UTC
If you stop kwin with "killall kwin_x11", does the bug still happen? (you can start it again with "kwin_x11 & disown" after testing)
Comment 4 David Edmundson 2022-07-21 09:50:10 UTC
*** Bug 393639 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 David Edmundson 2023-09-06 10:38:26 UTC
This bug was reported against an outdated version of KWin. We have made many changes since the. 
If the issue persists in newer versions can you reopen the bug report updating the version number.