Manjaro Gnome is very slow and not responding

Hi, since yesterday my Manjaro is running very slow and freezes, or when I click it takes a few seconds to react. here is some info from my laptop:

**inxi -Fxxx**
System:
  Host: dary Kernel: 5.10.109-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
    v: 11.2.0 Desktop: GNOME v: 41.5 tk: GTK v: 3.24.33 wm: gnome-shell dm: GDM
    v: 41.3 Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 80K5 v: Lenovo Z41-70
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 v: Lenovo Z41-70
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: LENOVO model: Lenovo Z41-70 v: No DPK serial: <superuser required>
    UEFI: LENOVO v: C2CN19WW(V2.00) date: 07/14/2015
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 37.6 Wh (100.0%) condition: 37.6/39.6 Wh (95.1%)
    volts: 16.7 min: 14.9 model: LENOVO PABAS0241231 type: Li-ion serial: 41167
    status: full
CPU:
  Info: dual core model: Intel Core i7-5500U bits: 64 type: MT MCP
    smt: enabled arch: Broadwell rev: 4 cache: L1: 128 KiB L2: 512 KiB
    L3: 4 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 2934 high: 2992 min/max: 500/3000 cores: 1: 2895
    2: 2992 3: 2894 4: 2957 bogomips: 19161
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 5500 vendor: Lenovo driver: i915 v: kernel
    ports: active: HDMI-A-1,eDP-1 empty: DP-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0
    chip-ID: 8086:1616 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: AMD Topaz XT [Radeon R7 M260/M265 / M340/M360 M440/M445 530/535
    620/625 Mobile]
    driver: amdgpu v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 4 bus-ID: 04:00.0
    chip-ID: 1002:6900 class-ID: 0380
  Device-3: Chicony Lenovo EasyCamera type: USB driver: uvcvideo
    bus-ID: 2-6:5 chip-ID: 04f2:b50f class-ID: 0e02 serial: 0001
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.3 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.1
    compositor: gnome-shell driver: X: loaded: amdgpu,modesetting
    unloaded: radeon alternate: fbdev,vesa gpu: i915 display-ID: :1
    screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3840x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 1016x285mm (40.00x11.22")
    s-diag: 1055mm (41.54")
  Monitor-1: HDMI-A-1 mapped: HDMI-1 pos: right model: Dell S2719HS
    serial: 8QQ2Y13 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 82
    size: 598x336mm (23.54x13.23") diag: 686mm (27") modes: max: 1920x1080
    min: 720x400
  Monitor-2: eDP-1 pos: primary,left model: AU Optronics 0x1b3d
    res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 158 size: 309x173mm (12.17x6.81")
    diag: 354mm (13.9") modes: 1920x1080
  Message: Unable to show GL data. Required tool glxinfo missing.
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Broadwell-U Audio vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel
    v: kernel bus-ID: 00:03.0 chip-ID: 8086:160c class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: Intel Wildcat Point-LP High Definition Audio vendor: Lenovo
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:9ca0
    class-ID: 0403
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.109-1-MANJARO running: yes
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.20 running: no
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.49 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: Lenovo driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1
    port: 4000 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp2s0 state: down mac: f0:76:1c:dc:40:fe
  Device-2: Intel Wireless 3160 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel pcie:
    speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:08b4 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlp3s0 state: up mac: e4:f8:9c:2d:78:ff
  IF-ID-1: virbr0 state: down mac: 52:54:00:bb:f7:5e
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
    bus-ID: 2-7:6 chip-ID: 8087:07dc class-ID: e001
  Report: bt-adapter ID: hci0 rfk-id: 4 state: up
    address: E4:F8:9C:2D:79:03
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 455.1 GiB (48.9%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD10JPVX-08JC3T5
    size: 931.51 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 5400
    serial: WD-WX21AA4RNEJE rev: 1A05 scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 530.63 GiB used: 383.57 GiB (72.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 299.4 MiB used: 284 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/sda1
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 53.0 C mobo: 27.8 C gpu: amdgpu temp: 40.0 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 275 Uptime: 3h 9m wakeups: 6 Memory: 7.68 GiB
  used: 2.39 GiB (31.1%) Init: systemd v: 250 Compilers: gcc: 11.2.0
  clang: 13.0.1 Packages: 1874 pacman: 1868 flatpak: 6 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16
  running-in: terminator inxi: 3.3.15

**df -H**
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
dev             4,2G     0  4,2G   0% /dev
run             4,2G  2,0M  4,2G   1% /run
/dev/sda2       570G  416G  126G  77% /
tmpfs           4,2G   65M  4,1G   2% /dev/shm
tmpfs           4,2G  7,2M  4,2G   1% /tmp
/dev/loop0      132k  132k     0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/bare/5
/dev/loop2      116M  116M     0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/core/12834
/dev/loop4      118M  118M     0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/core/12941
/dev/loop1      230M  230M     0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/code/93
/dev/loop3      230M  230M     0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/code/94
/dev/loop5       59M   59M     0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/core18/2284
/dev/loop7       66M   66M     0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/core20/1376
/dev/loop6       59M   59M     0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/core18/2344
/dev/loop8      123M  123M     0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/docker/1690
/dev/loop9       66M   66M     0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/core20/1405
/dev/loop11     171M  171M     0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/gnome-3-28-1804/145
/dev/loop10     123M  123M     0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/docker/1767
/dev/loop13     230M  230M     0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/gnome-3-34-1804/77
/dev/loop12     173M  173M     0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/gnome-3-28-1804/161
/dev/loop15      69M   69M     0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/gtk-common-themes/1519
/dev/loop14      69M   69M     0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/gtk-common-themes/1515
/dev/loop16     340M  340M     0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/kde-frameworks-5-qt-5-15-core20/14
/dev/loop18      47M   47M     0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/snapd/15314
/dev/loop17      46M   46M     0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/snapd/15177
/dev/loop20      69M   69M     0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/sublime-text/112
/dev/loop19      68M   68M     0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/sublime-text/110
/dev/sda1       314M  291k  314M   1% /boot/efi
/dev/sda3       413G   77G  315G  20% /mnt/E
tmpfs           826M  123k  825M   1% /run/user/1000

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I just realized something that might be helpful! when I unplug my external monitor HDMI cable, the system acts normally and with an adequate speed. once I plug that cable in, it is again slow.