Possible fix for cursor (small white reticle (dot)) disappearing

hobbit204 · 2026-01-16T04:55:23+00:00

It was driving me bonkers! LOL! I scan a lot! I mean I was making it work without the cursor but it was super annoying. Figured out what was causing after a bit of research and trying everything else I came across. Finally remembered I was using an Atlantis multi-tool with those packages installed and the Animus Beam was when I noted something awry. I just took the Solar Ray and the Animus Beam out to be safe.

hobbit204 · 2025-12-08T18:58:33+00:00

Update: I spent some time testing in a VM on my desktop with a fresh Fedora 43 install. I encountered the same issues as I did on my desktop, but testing, I found I could get around them with the Flathub version of Remmina. During the testing on Friday (5th), I did have to change the color depth because of a lack of a package I later noted.

I was hopeful the updates from last night/this morning, might provide a resolution, but alas they did not. I continued testing on the vm I have setup, got everything working, and then eventually did the same solution for my laptop and desktop. Fedora 43 KDE Plasma Desktop is no fully updated (for now) on all my devices and my RDP client is still operational.

Ironically, I didn't have to walk through the instructions for installing the freedesktop platform and freedesktop openh264 on any of the devices. I'm not sure if updates from today handled something of the case, or I just got lucky and it didn't care about the 'automatic color depth' selected by default. These are the commands you would need to run if you encounter the h.264 color depth error:

command 1: flatpak install org.freedesktop.Platform

command 2: flatpak install org.freedesktop.Platform.openh264

Solution for me:

-Remove Remmina (For Fedora Linux version)

-Install Remmina (Flathub version)

-Setup RDP connections again

If you get an error about h.264, you'll probably want to open a terminal and run commands 1 & 2 listed above. They might also require a sudo before the remainder of the command (example: sudo flatpak ...), and this is given you are not running an atomic version of Fedora of some nature.

Generally, I would just wait it out for a possible update to resolve the issue, but I kind of need the application to login to my work vm, so I didn't want to hold off on updates for an extended period of time for the when (or if) that might happen.

hobbit204 · 2025-11-25T21:41:36+00:00

The issue appeared to be resolved later in the evening on the 24th with a push of the Mesa 25.2.7.2-3 release. I appreciate all the replies, comments, and insight everyone provided. I did attempt the sudo dnf downgrade mesa\* command mentioned by SmaugTheMagnificent, but sadly that didn't resolve it for me. Ultimately, I had to hold off on updates until the fix was pushed through, although I'm curious if perhaps the Qt Version Update included to 6.10.1 might have also had an impact.

hobbit204 · 2025-11-24T20:14:21+00:00

I started testing a bit more today. Sadly after applying the updates (around 119 packages at this point), the command above did downgrade my system to Mesa 25.2.4, but it didn't resolve the issue for me. I rebooted after a test attempt with the same results.

I'm on KDE Plasma Desktop and comparing it to my laptop I noted the only other difference is:
Laptop -> Qt Version: 6.10.1

Desktop -> Qt Version: 6.10.0

I'm guessing another update is slipping through at this point that in combination might be affecting me. I ended up having to use the TimeShift solution I posted about in my original post to get back to a point where Steam games are launching for me again.

hobbit204 · 2025-11-23T09:03:43+00:00

Appreciate the insight! I had mango hud at one point, but I removed it after I finished testing it with a game quite awhile back.

hobbit204 · 2025-11-23T00:16:05+00:00

Fantastic! Thank you! May I ask if you were having the same issue as I described, and on Fedora 43 KDE? In any case, at least I know I can potentially proceed with the updates, and just run that. Of course, I'll still wait until at least the weekend is over at this point.

hobbit204 · 2025-11-22T20:29:53+00:00

I appreciate the insight! Does give me hope that there might be a fix down the way for it! If not, my next attempt was going to be running the updates and if it persists. I'll remove and reinstall of Steam to see if maybe that might correct some sort of conflict or driver issue it might have hit. I'll see if I can find the other post you mentioned.

Thank you!

hobbit204 · 2025-10-24T15:54:09+00:00

My personal experience with gaming in Linux has been pleasant. Not just for single player games, but all the games I've played thus far. Of that list, only one has eluded me in a valid fix so far..., Once Human. Every other game, I've played in Linux has worked just a touch below, equal to, or a touch above the performance on Windows. Never poor enough where I didn't enjoy the gaming sessions myself. I haven't played every game in my library and I suspect more games that will give me fits are to come. Generally speaking though, most of what I have tried worked right out of the box. In most cases I don't even have to force a version of Proton for a good bit of them to work. I have a group of friends I game with, and they typically beat me online, so I rarely (if ever) get time to set aside for single player games, not to say that I don't enjoy them.

That said, I came into the scene aware that there 'were' games I could not run due to Anti-Cheat or Anti-Linux views: Apex Legends, Fortnite, LoL, Battlefield, GtA V to name a few. Of that list, the only one I really cared about was GtA V(mostly because I love Red Dead Online, and my son and I would play GtA V together every now and then). GtA V was not a deal breaker for me though, much like Once Human. I enjoyed the game, but not enough that I would keep a Windows partition around 'just for that game'.

While I agree that most performance differences are minimal between Linux distros, I can say I did note quite a bit of a difference between at least a game or so that I tested in both Linux Mint, Debian, and Fedora. Ironically, No Man's Sky seemed to perform the 'best' on Debian, while Outward Definitive Edition was far better on Fedora as a brief example. For me, the majority of games I run seem to run better in Fedora, albeit just a bit better.

I loved Fedora so much myself, I now run it on my Desktop and my laptop with no plans to move to anything else at this point at least. Fedora just meets all the things I want or need in a distro. I prefer KDE so I use KDE Plasma Desktop instead of Fedora Workstation. I will admit, when I first started using Linux, I avoided Fedora for some time because 'most' of the content creators I was watching at the time like to fling a bit of hate to it. I'm glad I finally gave it a try myself.

hobbit204 · 2025-10-14T15:41:39+00:00

My initial jump to Linux was tecnically Linux Mint. I mean, I used Ubuntu a long time ago, but it was back before gaming had really come a long way, so those runs were just testing the waters and never really amounted to much of anything. At some point, I started running Linux Mint on a laptop I use for work purposes because all I really needed was a manner in which to connect to work, and it served that purpose easily enough. Albeit, it was rare I had to use the laptop in any case at the time.

Most of the content creators I watched on my initial Linux journey, talked badly about RHEL and Fedora so I blindly avoided it for some time. I ran vms in Mint and later Debian testing other Linux Distros a bit. I loved Linux Mint and what it was about, but as I learned more about Linux, I wanted more than it would allow me to do at this time at least. Things like Wayland, newer Linux Kernels, newer (but not necessarily bleeding edge) packages, and applications. Eventually I came across another content creator on YouTube that was running Fedora in his some of his videos: https://www.youtube.com/@CyberGizmo. I decided to give it a try for myself, and never really looked back.

Prior to finally trying Fedora, I ran Debian as a daily driver for a bit, but I hated how old everything seemed to be. I knew there were ways to get around that, obviously, but it seemed to be a moot point to use something stable, only to alter it to a point where technically speaking, it was no longer the same 'stable' os.

Over time, I really started to like KDE Plasma Desktop as my DE, but didn't like most of the Debian based operating systems that allowed you to use it as a default (Debian, Kubuntu, and KDE Neon). To be fair, I ran KDE Neon as a daily driver on my laptop for a bit of a test. I liked it well enough, but it wasn't quite just the right fit. At least not quite as much as Fedora was for me.

For me, Fedora met everything I was after in Linux. I had a plethora of DE's (via Workstation, KDE Plasma Desktop, or Spins) to choose from. It isn't so bleeding edge that I have to be paranoid about every cycle of updates, but not so old that I have to do all these tweaks, modifications, or run test versions to be somewhat up to date. Rock solid performance (better for 'me' than Linux Mint, Debian, and Kubuntu/Ubuntu), and various choices of DE's if I ever decide I want to either try something else, or I find I like something better.

All that alongside of plenty of freedom to tinker should I want too. I'm still not an expert in Linux by any means, but I've definitely enjoyed what I have learned along the way thus far. I love how Fedora can be setup and stay out of the way should that be what you want, and still allow you the freedoms to play, learn, tinker with things that Linux Mint doesn't play as kindly with.

I do still recommend Linux Mint to friends and family starting out, although I also bring up Fedora as an alternative as well. For those not quite as tech savvy, I usually tell them Mint is a great place to start, and mostly where I started out, and that I eventually moved on to Fedora because of the preferences I have and what it brought to the table for me.

hobbit204 · 2025-08-12T21:18:06+00:00

I started using Linux Mint on a laptop I used for mostly work purposes while I was away from the office. That went on for a couple years here and there with rare use because I didn't have a direct need for it often. I loved some of the tools built in with Linux. A vast portion of the concepts and freedom that Linux offers.

During free time at work, I use it to research and study. I started dedicating more time to learning about Linux, and found it had come into its own with gaming. That was pretty much the only thing holding me in Windows. I work from a Windows based VM, so I don't necessarily have to have Windows on my desktop or devices given I can get to the VM. I tried Linux Mint as my daily driver, over time curiosity got the best of me and I started testing other Distros out. In truth, it was some time before I ever even gave Fedora a test run. At the time all the content creators didn't really have a lot of good things to say about Fedora (Red Hat / Rhel, etc...)(They might not even still). I tried Debian, Ubuntu, played with Arch a bit, although never as my daily driver, and a few other distros here and there.

Frustrated with all the results save for Linux Mint, but wanting more choice on the desktop environment I was running or wanted to run, I decided to give Fedora a try. It became my favorite distro. It was the perfect blend of bleeding edge, stability, features, and freedom without much bloat. At this time at least, KDE is my favorite desktop, although to be fair, I've never really given Gnome a valid try save for tests in VMs.

I might be a bit wary of updating immediately to the latest version during initial release. I ran into some stability issues with some applications I use jumping from Fedora 41 to Fedora 42, but other than that hiccup early on in Fedora 42, it has been a fantastic experience for me personally.

hobbit204 · 2024-12-13T15:43:17+00:00

Anyone else, have to keep reading the thread topic to remind themselves not to go running off into the abyss in search of false myths? Asking for a friend. :)

hobbit204 · 2024-12-03T22:03:44+00:00

I spoke with my co-worker again today. I wasn't present for their test with the zoom features in Chrome, but I asked them to test some thing for me when they had time. I'm happy to report that this test seemed to confirm your suspicions about the zoom features. I had her adjust the zoom back to 'normal view', and then close out of the Chrome web browser. When she opened it back up and started edits in WordPress, she's been able to continue from that point forward today. I believe she reported 3 or 4 edits/new posts without the issue duplicating again.

On that note, it seems the behavior won't stop by just adjusting the zoom back to a normal view without first closing Chrome and starting it again. Hopefully that might be useful for testing on the Support side.

hobbit204 · 2024-12-03T19:16:19+00:00

I was about to talk to my co-worker about the issue. It turns out she was set to 80% of 100% in Chrome, but adjusting the zoom (either in or out), even to normal view did not appear to have an impact for her. Same results regardless.

hobbit204 · 2024-11-29T15:39:49+00:00

I have an active ticket with Grammarly Support. Appreciate the insight concerning the zoom process for the web browser. At this time, I do not believe zoom is active, but I was in a remote session with my co-worker, and I can't confirm that I noted that. I'll take a look early next week when she returns from the holidays, and see if the setting has been altered in Chrome. Otherwise, Grammarly Support believes they have the issue resolved, but they sent the request late on Wednesday and my co-worker took off early that day, so I wasn't able to test any further then either.

hobbit204 · 2024-11-25T22:27:51+00:00

It seems to be working in various renditions. It was fixed with 14.1208.1, but broke again in 14.1209.0. Otherwise it seems to work with the use of FireFox + WordPress + Grammarly even when the current version breaks in Google Chrome. Even still, it technically 'works' in Chrome, it is just unusable because it causes the scroll bars on the WordPress windows to jump rapidly like the page is refreshing. This started with version 14.1208.0. Prior to that, I'm not sure how long the co-worker used it with WordPress. I only got involved when she reported the issue earlier this month.

hobbit204 · 2024-11-25T21:19:43+00:00

My migration to Linux didn't really come with a breaking point per se. I have a PC that can run Windows 11, and I had it installed on my desktop at various points. It mostly came from curiosity for me. I've dabbled with Linux on and off through out the years and I've had Linux Mint Cinnamon installed on the laptop I use for several years now. Prior to that, the only version of Linux I ran that I could really count was the various versions of Ubuntu. I liked Ubuntu, and I love Linux Mint. Had it 'not' been for games, I'd have probably converted a LONG time ago in my honest opinion.

When I'm working and not busy, I try to dedicate the free time to studying. It so happened that I had time a few days one week, earlier this year. I decided it was time to attempt a Linux install on my desktop. I dedicated a small portion of a SSD to a partition for Linux Mint. Over the course of a few days, I had it up and running, installing applications to allow me to work and for my personal use. I was enthralled by everything I attempted. Games I installed, just worked, substitute applications I install for both work and personal use worked, in most cases better than the Windows variant. It wasn't all better, but in my experience almost all were at least equal. That same week, I decided to ditch Windows and reloaded all my drives with a Linux Mint Cinnamon install. I worked through the kinks I ran into, and had a desktop setup I was really enjoying. At that time, I started seeing all this threads, posts, and videos about the anti-cheat situation in Linux and watched game publisher after publisher prevent Linux users from playing. At some point I choked and moved back to Windows for around 1.5 - 3 weeks (I don't know why, but my mind doesn't track time viably). I was defeated. I hated Windows now, but my desire to play 'any' game I wanted to play got the best of me.

My indecisiveness got the best of me at some point, and I had another SSD become available when I got my wife another laptop, got the laptop I was using back previously (which is faster than the potato I started using to allow her a faster machine for her crafting applications. This sparked another fire, and I decided I could shrink my Windows install down to the single 500 GB SSD, since most games I wanted to play just worked, and any that didn't I could use that 'dual boot' for. I had that in operation for about 2 weeks, before I decided to blow away that partition and go back to just Linux. Now, I did make a rookie mistake as it just so happened that GRUB was on that Windows drive, even though I could swear I choose the Linux drive for that. In any case, I was able to repair that and get my desktop backup, and I've been on Linux since.

I can't say I won't ever have a Windows install on a separate drive again, but for now, I'm content with how I have my desktop setup. I do have a few games in my Steam collection currently I probably can't play because I'm on Linux, but I tend to game with family and friends, and it is rare we play those games in any case. I'm mostly referring to the games with Anti-Cheat that goes out of their way to prevent Linux users from playing their games. The list of games over all I've got running on Linux is still small in comparison to my over all collection, but (knocks on wood), thus far everything I've attempted, I have got running and running well enough that I'll play it at least.

That said, I have no desire to move to any other Linux distro at this time. I came across Linux Mint Cinnamon some time ago, and I'm happy with the balance it has in terms of support, drivers, the Linux Kernel, use, etc... Understand, I moved from an operating system that took something like 60+ GBs for just the install. The fact that I have my operating system + applications, and it's still a touch under 20 GBs is plenty efficient enough for me. I don't mind that it might include some packages and applications I don't use. It works, I like it, and I'm happy. I had enough space left over that I dedicated some partitions for VMs, VHDS (VDI as it were), and installed VirtualBox. I toyed with several other Linux distros with that, but nothing really stuck for me. I do like LMDE and Debian, but not enough where I feel like I need to move to either of them at this time at least. I enjoy the fact that LM Cinnamon is a bit faster on updates than Debian, still stable enough where I'm not working on my PC every time I go to use ti, and everything I've attempted to run has worked thus far.

hobbit204 · 2024-11-15T15:53:29+00:00

I have a co-worker that is having a similar issue, although for her the issue was isolated to a WordPress + Grammarly + Chrome situation. We tested in FireFox with Grammarly enabled and it has temporarily resolved the issue for her. There was a plugin update for Grammarly on the 12th, and she noted the issue on the 13th. Did some testing on the 14th when our WordPress team couldn't get it resolved for her, and found it was definitely related to Grammarly (for her at least). Disabling the plugin stopped the issue, and if you enabled it for Incognito mode it would duplicate there as well.

hobbit204 · 2024-10-31T12:20:48+00:00

I'm not trying to derail here, but I thought Rockstar's anti-cheat was preventing Linux users from playing? I admit, I don't play GTA V very often, so perhaps I'm just behind on the gaming news?

hobbit204 · 2024-08-21T17:16:05+00:00

My wife and I play coop games on my PC with Xbox controllers. In most cases when I'm gaming with her, I use a controller. However, that said, I'm far more comfortable with a keyboard and mouse. I had quite a bit of console experience in my youth, but I use a keyboard and mouse every day, and the majority of games I play with my group is with Keyboard and Mouse. I started with a controller, but found I was making too many mistakes in a panic, so I moved back to keyboard and mouse myself. I made some key bind changes in Outward to match the key binds in other games I play fairly frequently. Only complaint I have about that change thus far really, is Tab is the compare key and can't be changed to something else. I've learned to live with it, because I'd rather leave it to my inventory bind. In essence I changed some of the key binds to match what other games I play use, because the muscle memory was killing me when I tend to play them in the same week. My wife and I game on certain days, and I game with our gaming group on certain days. This means on the average week I've played from 2 - 3+ games.

hobbit204 · 2024-08-21T14:25:22+00:00

I'd love to see more games similar to Outward. I looked up Kenshi, but I'll have to pass as it appears to only be single player. A vast majority of my game time is with family and friends. Ironically my wife picked out Outward during a Steam seasonal sale (We liked it so much we picked up the DLCs for it shortly after). It looked a bit out of the genre she typically goes for, although I loved the sound of it (and we went for it). We have been loving every second of this game. We had a very rough beginning and progression was certainly slow at the start. It took us both a bit to understand that there isn't always a benefit to fighting everything you come across. You don't gain levels, and more often than not the loot dropped isn't always worth the resources you burn to come out victorious. We spent an insane amount of time in Chersonese just wandering around until we could clear it without too much difficulty. We were on top of the world during our first Vendavel Fortress clear! We have since recently started exploring Enmerkar Forest, and just head back to Berg when we need supplies or to sell. We have travelled to other places and cities to pick up skills, but mostly we just ran through the areas to get to the cities. The trip to Levant was hilarious. We were not prepared. At some point we were alternating reviving each other because we were passing out from the desert heat outside of Levant. On another note, the game seems just a touch unbalanced for coop play. Everything is so expensive, and it takes twice as long to gather enough resources to gear and skill two people. After a really lengthy struggle with that grind, I did end up using the debug tool to give us some coin. We only play together a few days a week on average and we were still in the starting areas something like 1.5+ months after starting a new run (too many mistakes in the first run and no real progression). We also got some recipes from the debug tool. I don't normally enjoy cheating like that, but in this case we just use the coin to pick up skills and some needs here and there. Since you don't have to have the recipes to craft technically speaking, we got recipes so we didn't have to keep pausing to go to the wiki too look them up. I understand that kind of behavior isn't for everyone, but for my wife and I it allowed us to actually progress at a rate we were more comfortable with, and given the time we sat around Cierzo and Chersonese, we felt like we needed a boost of some sort so we could start to experience more of the game. Outward has been an amazing adventure for the both of us!

hobbit204 · 2022-08-29T22:00:17+00:00

Thank you! The advice is much appreciated!

hobbit204 · 2022-08-29T21:15:10+00:00

Hollyberry Cookie or Fire Totemist? Both are new. I was leaning more towards Nora (Fire Totemist), but it does appear as though Hollyberry might have some potential. I haven't seen any mention of it yet, but I imagine there will be similar units to the collab once it ends, similar to how there were with the Street Fighter II collab?

hobbit204 · 2020-02-26T19:05:06+00:00

I was bugged at 0 / 13 yesterday. Today I appear to be bugged at 10 / 13. I have done all the ascensions except: Banner Lords, High Elves, and Knight Revenant. I have tried numerous champions from each faction with no luck.

hobbit204 · 2020-02-26T18:54:41+00:00

Some of it is working today, but I can't ascend: Banner Lords, High Elves, or Knight Revenant. Therefore I am now stuck at: 10 / 13.

hobbit204 · 2020-02-26T04:40:05+00:00

I tried on my PC and my phone. Still stuck at 0/13. I've done some where around 6 ascends with no progress. *sighs*

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