Cursor freezes for several minutes on startup and randomly during use on ubuntu gnome with nvidia gpu and external monitor

[deanrie]

Hey, thanks for the report.

This is a known Electron/Chromium compatibility issue with NVIDIA on Wayland. Please try these options:

1. Disable GPU acceleration:

cursor --disable-gpu

2. Force XWayland instead of native Wayland:

cursor --ozone-platform=x11

3. If you’re using the proprietary NVIDIA driver, try:

cursor --disable-gpu-compositing --disable-software-rasterizer

You can add the needed flags to the .desktop file to apply them permanently.

Also, can you confirm:

• Which NVIDIA driver are you using (proprietary or nouveau) and what version?
• Your GPU model?

Let me know if any of these helped.