I have seen the name flickering on occasion, but hard to reproduce. I could only get the name in the mini-buffer to flicker after just starting the REPL (with LSP on). Otherwise the function argument hints work well with Cider and LSP together using practicalli/clojure-deps-edn config I assume both LSP and a REPL session (Cider jack-in or connect) have been run. Does the issue happen with only LSP (no REPL - , m q q to kill the REPL) Or try with just the REPL and shut down LSP with , b s (`lsp-workspace-shutdown`)

Try updating the LSP server SPC SPC lsp-update-server and then restart LSP , b r (`lsp-workspace-restart`) as there are lots of regular improvements. Check there isnt an older installed version of clojure-lsp on the operating system execution path (i.e. from a manually installed clojure-lsp binary outside of emacs)

Maybe i have to versions of clojure lsp. I have been using update-lsp: aliased to sudo bash < <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/clojure-lsp/clojure-lsp/master/install) to update clojure lsp.

drewverlee@drewverlee  ~/.spacemacs.d   live  clojure-lsp --version clojure-lsp 2022.04.18-00.59.32 clj-kondo 2022.04.09-SNAPSHOT

@U05254DQM wanted to follow up and say thanks. I think your right, my version of lsp might have been old? I reinstalled like you said and it fixed itself. It's possible your config looks for lsp different then i was doing in the past. Unclear, but it seems better now.

If all the checked out projects are under a common directory, e.g /projects/ the add a .projectile file to /projects root and start a search A .projectile file can also include patterns to control what files are included (similar to gitignore)

Thanks again, John

Emacs 29 has just introduced its own implementation of restart-emacs function. Spacemacs uses a package that includes restart-emacs Unfortunately the emacs29 function takes no arguments (and at present has less functionality)