Cursor flickering issue fix?

I have had the cursor flickering issue for a while now mentioned in this post with all my set up info (only changes since then have been staying updated to latest kernel and drivers on fedora 42): Gray screen flickering and duplicate cursor glitching again?

My solution since then has just been putting my computer to sleep for a second and waking it up again, then the cursor flickering goes away unless I change display settings or something, like connecting my other monitor (have to put computer to sleep and wake it again to fix it when I do this).

I was wondering if a more permanent solution exists (updates haven’t fixed it for me, idk why), would disabling hardware cursor composition with this command work (are there any draw backs?):
sudo grubby --update-kernel=ALL --args=“amdgpu.hwcursor=0”

I’d try:

sudo -e /etc/profile.d/general-tweaks.sh
export MUTTER_DEBUG_FORCE_KMS_MODE=simple

Iirc there’s another thing like that too for the cursor.


Edit: Yeah it’s GNOME-specific. I’m not sure I’ve seen a KDE/Kwin-equivalent mentioned but it seems like they’d have something.

I’m using KDE so KWIN is the window compositor. I don’t think that would work because that’s gnome specific right?

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