Description of problem: Under GNOME on Wayland, the text cursor is invisible. It is therefore awkward to edit a text. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): abiword-3.0.2-3.fc25 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start GNOME on Wayland. 2. Launch abiword and select text window. Actual results: No text cursor is visible. Expected results: Text cursor is visible. Additional info: Issue absent when using the X11 backend, e.g. when running 'GDK_BACKEND=x11 abiword'.
I can confirm the same exact bug is present in Fedora 26.
Upstream bugreport: https://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13767 (upstream apparently uses "caret" where this report uses "cursor").
Precision : tried installing abiword on my desktop Fedora 26 PC : there the flickering screen bug is present but the caret is displayed. The caret was not displayed on my laptop but the screen was not flickering. The difference in behaviour might be related to hardware discrepancies : intel IGP (open-source default driver) on the laptop, NVIDIA GPU (using proprietary driver) on the Desktop.
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