Cursor Problems - too....

[silent coral]

hey there, may i politely ask for some help here...

Mint Cinnamon Kernel 6.8.0-48-generic

I'm running a 13" Dell XPS 2in1 with an additional external display.
internal is 3840x2400 native
external is 2560x1600 native
i'd like to run both in native resolution with independent scaling (fractional scaling controls enabled)

this causes my cursor to flicker on the internal display as soon as i have some video content running (like netflix on firefox).
when i close firefox (and netflix) it's almost gone, but not completely

when i turn off the incremental scaling the cursor is quite stable, but appearance is not very good (too big on the external/too small on the internal)

i can exclude hardware, since exactly the same hardware works flawless (with individual scaling) under Win11Pro

any suggestion very appreciated (even how to communicate this behavior to the developers)

regards... 🖖

[river crescent]

instead of fussing with Display scaling, use Themes, advanced to put cursor theme bigger

if no option there, install a specifically large high visibility cursor theme from pling.com

such extracted theme folders will go in user home's .icons folder

or into usr/share/icons using root permissions

[silent coral]

ya, i've tried this... the problem is, i'd like to run both displays in native resolution, which means appearance in size is different, since themes work global not individual/display. so, the incremental scaling is not "unimportant" to me...

and as i mentioned, it works flawless under Win11Pro

and pls don't tell me to go back to Win11 then... 😉
i'm glad to tetox from MS

[river crescent]

use kde plasma then

and I mean plasma 6.1

which is only available in wayland distros, such as the Ubuntu-based Tuxedo OS

[blazing schooner]

ok so scaling actually works right except for cursor flicker on video, have you tried disabling or enabling hardware accelerated decoding in Firefox to see if this makes a difference?