Mouse flickering issues

My cursor flickers or sometimes disappears entirely, though it’s entirely graphical as i can still click and use it. I haven’t figured out what exactly causes it, but it happens mainly in games, specifically buttons or tabs.

inxi info

System:
Kernel: 5.10.96-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10-x86_64
root=UUID=1483c215-247d-4f95-a3ed-69fb7ff732df rw quiet apparmor=1
security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 tk: Gtk 3.24.29 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm 4.16.1
vt: 7 dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Latitude 5480 v: N/A
serial: Chassis: type: 10 serial:
Mobo: Dell model: 08J661 v: A01 serial:
UEFI-[Legacy]: Dell v: 1.8.1 date: 12/13/2017
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 33.0 Wh (100.0%) condition: 33.0/68.0 Wh (48.6%)
volts: 8.4 min: 7.6 model: SMP DELL GD1JP65 type: Li-poly serial:
status: Full
Memory:
RAM: total: 7.42 GiB used: 4.55 GiB (61.3%)
RAM Report:
permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
Info: model: Intel Core i5-7440HQ bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Kaby Lake
family: 6 model-id: 0x9E (158) stepping: 9 microcode: 0xEA
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 4 smt: cache: L1: 256 KiB
desc: d-4x32 KiB; i-4x32 KiB L2: 1024 KiB desc: 4x256 KiB L3: 6 MiB
desc: 1x6 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1599 high: 1600 min/max: 800/3800 scaling:
driver: intel_pstate governor: powersave cores: 1: 1596 2: 1600 3: 1600
4: 1600 bogomips: 22408
Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acpi adx aes aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon
art avx avx2 bmi1 bmi2 bts clflush clflushopt cmov constant_tsc cpuid
cpuid_fault cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts epb ept ept_ad erms est
f16c flexpriority flush_l1d fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr hle ht hwp
hwp_act_window hwp_epp hwp_notify ibpb ibrs ida intel_pt invpcid
invpcid_single lahf_lm lm mca mce md_clear mmx monitor movbe mpx msr mtrr
nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat pbe pcid pclmulqdq pdcm pdpe1gb pebs pge pln
pni popcnt pse pse36 pti pts rdrand rdseed rdtscp rep_good rtm sdbg sep
smap smep smx ss ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 stibp syscall tm tm2
tpr_shadow tsc tsc_adjust tsc_deadline_timer vme vmx vnmi vpid x2apic
xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveopt xsaves xtopology xtpr
Vulnerabilities:
Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
Type: l1tf
mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT disabled
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT disabled
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: spec_store_bypass
mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
Type: spectre_v1
mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional,
IBRS_FW, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling
Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT disabled
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 630 vendor: Dell driver: i915 v: kernel
bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:591b class-ID: 0300
Device-2: NVIDIA GM108M [GeForce 930MX] vendor: Dell driver: nvidia
v: 510.47.03 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm bus-ID: 02:00.0
chip-ID: 10de:134e class-ID: 0302
Device-3: Microdia Integrated_Webcam_HD type: USB driver: uvcvideo
bus-ID: 1-11:4 chip-ID: 0c45:6717 class-ID: 0e02
Display: x11 server: X Org 1.21.1.3 compositor: xfwm4 v: 4.16.1 driver:
loaded: modesetting,nvidia alternate: fbdev,nouveau,nv,vesa display-ID: :0.0
screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3264x1333 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 864x353mm (34.0x13.9")
s-diag: 933mm (36.7")
Monitor-1: eDP-1 res: 1344x756 hz: 60 dpi: 110 size: 309x173mm (12.2x6.8")
diag: 354mm (13.9")
Monitor-2: HDMI-1 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 92
size: 531x299mm (20.9x11.8") diag: 609mm (24")
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 630 (KBL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 21.3.5
direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel CM238 HD Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a171 class-ID: 0403
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.96-1-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: 0.3.45 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-LM vendor: Dell driver: e1000e v: kernel
port: N/A bus-ID: 00:1f.6 chip-ID: 8086:15e3 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp0s31f6 state: down mac:
Device-2: Intel Wireless 8265 / 8275 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:24fd class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp3s0 state: up mac:
IP v4: type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
broadcast:
IP v6: type: noprefixroute scope: link
WAN IP:
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
bus-ID: 1-6:3 chip-ID: 8087:0a2b class-ID: e001
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 3 state: up address: see --recommends
Logical:
Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
Hardware-1: Intel SATA Controller [RAID mode] driver: ahci v: 3.0 port: f060
bus-ID: 00:17.0 chip-ID: 8086:2822 rev: N/A class-ID: 0104
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 238.47 GiB used: 185.22 GiB (77.7%)
SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: SanDisk model: X400 M.2 2280 256GB
size: 238.47 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
type: SSD serial: rev: 2012 scheme: MBR
Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 238.47 GiB size: 233.67 GiB (97.99%)
used: 185.22 GiB (79.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 label: N/A
uuid: 1483c215-247d-4f95-a3ed-69fb7ff732df
Swap:
Alert: No swap data was found.
Unmounted:
Message: No unmounted partitions found.
USB:
Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 16 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 1-2:2 info: Microsoft Sidewinder X4 type: Keyboard,HID
driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s
power: 500mA chip-ID: 045e:0768 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: 1-6:3 info: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface type: Bluetooth
driver: btusb interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA
chip-ID: 8087:0a2b class-ID: e001
Device-3: 1-11:4 info: Microdia Integrated_Webcam_HD type: Video
driver: uvcvideo interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA
chip-ID: 0c45:6717 class-ID: 0e02
Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 10 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 52.0 C pch: 38.5 C mobo: 42.0 C sodimm: SODIMM C
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 2402
Info:
Processes: 256 Uptime: 4h 15m wakeups: 1 Init: systemd v: 250
tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 11.1.0 clang: 13.0.0 Packages: 1189
pacman: 1182 lib: 348 flatpak: 0 snap: 7 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16
running-in: xfce4-terminal inxi: 3.3.12