Unexpected Stylus Behavior on Wacom (CTH-470) – Cursor disappears after lifting pen on Fedora 42 (Wayland)

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I’ve been trying to solve some strange behavior with my Wacom Bamboo CTH-470 tablet on Fedora 42, running under Wayland.

After days of testing and back-and-forth, I finally gave up on using alternative drivers like OpenTabletDriver and decided to stick with Fedora’s default Wacom drivers. I made sure to:

  • Fully uninstall OpenTabletDriver (including the user service, UX, udev rules, and all configuration files).
  • Restore the default setup using the wacom kernel module and confirm it loads properly at boot.

With the default drivers, the tablet almost works great, except for a strange issue with the pen:

  • When I use the stylus for the first time after logging in, the cursor appears in the top-left corner, regardless of the actual pen position on the tablet.
  • I can move the cursor around just fine, but as soon as I lift the pen, the cursor disappears from the screen.
  • If I hover the pen near the tablet again, the cursor reappears exactly where I left it. That helps a little, but it’s very disorienting to have the cursor vanish every time I lift the pen. This makes the stylus feel unreliable, even though it’s technically being detected.
  • The touch interface (finger input) works well with the default drivers.

Has anyone experienced this stylus cursor issue (disappearing after lifting the pen) on Wayland?
Is there a known workaround to keep the cursor visible or force better stylus tracking?
Is there a way to adjust the stylus pointer speed using the default drivers on Wayland? I couldn’t find a clear solution for that yet.

Any help would be massively appreciated. Thanks in advance!