I’m using Fedora 43 KDE Plasma, and recently the text input cursor has been acting strangely:
Does anyone know what’s going on?
Merci.
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There should be a menu item under Settings where you can change the cursor shape and size. It may have been altered by an update.
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I’ll try that out (for now I’m on my Windows partition, for school…)
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The shape of the caret is indeed strange, usually just a vertical line, without any serifs.
But unfortunately, I have no clue either what caused this.
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New information:
I notice that this form of input cursor appears in all web input fields, on Firefox, for example my webmail or the discourse forms that I use.
However, in the Firefox interface in other KDE applications, there is no problem, the cursor is normal: |.
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Then I would strip down all add-ons for locating the issue.
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Looks like a font issue to me
But reading your other comments if its the same in other applications then its a setting on your system.
Menu button, Open Settings, then search ‘Display’ Context menu on the desktop should have ‘Display Configuration’. Look for the cursor option
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No, actually, it’s only in web pages displayed in FF, not in other apps or the Firefox UI.
Did you try FF with a newly created profile?
Froz1x @Froz1x ,
If it’s only in Firefox, you could check the following:
Open Menu → Settings
see what fonts you are using (post a screenshot)
Click on Advanced…, a window will open and check that you have checked Allow pages choose own fonts, instead of your selections above (post a screenshot)
Jorge
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No, actually, it’s only in web pages displayed in Firefox, not in other apps or the Firefox UI.
Did you try the fonts change in Firefox i suggested ?
What language do you have your system and firefox set too ?
If you use google chrome on the same site does it look the same ?
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Thanks jorge better images and directions than my pointing to another site.
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Froz1X @Froz1x,
Can you select 
Autoriser les page web à utilizer leurs propes polices au lieu de celles choisies ci-dessus, exit Firefox, log back in, and test if the cursor is working properly?
Jorge
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