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Cursor under Night Light has issues with changes in Linux 6.19 #813
Description
Distribution
Debian 13 trixie
Package version
6.4.10
Graphics hardware in use
AMD Radeon RX 6600
Frequency
Always
Bug description
i recently upgraded to Linux 6.19.6 from Liquorix (https://liquorix.net), and noticed that the color temperature of the mouse cursor was much warmer than the rest of the display.
the issue does not occur on Linux 6.18 (from Liquorix) or earlier, so i believe this is an issue with some of the changes to the amdgpu driver in Linux 6.19.
someone on the Linux Mint forums had a similar issue to me, and the solution from there is to disable the hardware cursor, but i would like to avoid doing that for numerous reasons, one of them addressed in the forum post replies.
this image was hard to capture properly due to white balance, but it should still illustrate the issue enough

Steps to reproduce
- use an AMD graphics card with kernel 6.19+
- enable Night Light
- observe how the mouse cursor color temperature is much higher than it should be
Expected behavior
cursor changes temperature uniformly with the rest of the display
Additional information
i believe this merge contains the breaking change- unsure as to which commit inside of this merge
the issue does not happen under Gamescope inside of my X11 Cinnamon session, so i can only assume it does not occur under the Cinnamon Wayland session either, but i can't test at this time as my Cinnamon Wayland session is broken
apologies if my desktop is a little out of date because of Debian, but i couldn't find any commits that might have fixed this between 6.4.10 and the latest Cinnamon version anyway.
p.s. sorry if this is poorly worded or not descriptive- it's very late, and i've had to type out this bug report twice due to me not submitting this bug report BEFORE testing further, crashing my desktop, and my browser with it, lol.