Strange mouse 'X' cursor

[MR ZenWiz]

On Sun, Jul 16, 2023 at 4:06 AM Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 15 Jul 2023 at 20:43, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > However, I noticed that sometimes the cursor goes into a X shape, and
> > it seems to stick across numerous window and workspace boundaries -
> > but not consistently.
>
> The X cursor is the default cursor for X11. All the arrows and things
> are styling imposed by your desktop or window manager.
>
> This suggests to me that some part of your stack is not working
> correctly or is occasionally dying. But you *must* do the legwork to
> isolate when and where it happens, or it will be hard to go much
> further.
>
> What GPU? What graphics driver?

GPU: Not entirely sure. Here's what I have:
CPU:    AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core Processor (no GPU)
vid:    Gigabyte NVidia GEForce GT 1030

$ lshw -c video
  *-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: GP108 [GeForce GT 1030]
       vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci at 0000:03:00.0
       version: a1
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
       resources: irq:37 memory:fb000000-fbffffff
memory:d0000000-dfffffff memory:e0000000-e1ffffff
ioport:f000(size=128) memory:fc000000-fc07ffff
 *-graphics
       product: EFI VGA
       physical id: 1
       logical name: /dev/fb0
       capabilities: fb
       configuration: depth=32 resolution=2560,1440

$ glxinfo -B
name of display: :0.0
display: :0  screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
Extended renderer info (GLX_MESA_query_renderer):
    Vendor: Mesa (0xffffffff)
    Device: llvmpipe (LLVM 15.0.7, 256 bits) (0xffffffff)
    Version: 23.0.4
    Accelerated: no
    Video memory: 31978MB
    Unified memory: yes
    Preferred profile: core (0x1)
    Max core profile version: 4.5
    Max compat profile version: 4.5
    Max GLES1 profile version: 1.1
    Max GLES[23] profile version: 3.2
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa
OpenGL renderer string: llvmpipe (LLVM 15.0.7, 256 bits)
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.5 (Core Profile) Mesa
23.0.4-0ubuntu1~22.04.1
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.50
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile

OpenGL version string: 4.5 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 23.0.4-0ubuntu1~22.04.1
OpenGL shading language version string: 4.50
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL profile mask: compatibility profile

OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.2 Mesa 23.0.4-0ubuntu1~22.04.1
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.20

My "Additional Drivers" GUI app says I am using a manually installed
driver, but it won't let me change it to anything else.

???

Thanks,

Mark