Cursor offset misalignment under Ubuntu/Wayland

A quickie: I switched back to Wayland but noticed that the mouse cursor appears misaligned for some apps [that is as specific as I’d like to be right now :-)]. It’s like the cursor is actually pointing a cm below where it appears on the screen. This is a known issue [1] and there is a fix:

apt remove xserver-xorg-input-libinput

That worked for me after a reboot. For posterity, the original post mentions a sequence of steps. I didn’t try them out, the version probably should be adjusted to 24.04.

apt install xserver-xorg-input-synaptics-hwe-18.04
apt install xserver-xorg-input-evdev-hwe-18.04
apt remove xserver-xorg-input-libinput

References

[1] GNOME mouse pointer misaligned/offset between visble cursor location and actual clicking location
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1509981/gnome-mouse-pointer-misaligned-offset-between-visble-cursor-location-and-actual

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