Bug 431084 - Cursor flickers when hovering text in Chromium/Falkon
Summary: Cursor flickers when hovering text in Chromium/Falkon
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 5.20.4
Platform: Arch Linux Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: David Edmundson
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Reported: 2021-01-02 23:27 UTC by Vuk Mirovic
Modified: 2021-01-04 12:26 UTC (History)
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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
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KDE Plasma Version: 5.20.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.77.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2

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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