Near freeze after activating Zoom in Accessibility menu

After activating Zoom in Accessibility menu, the mouse is nearly frozen, the desktop becomes sluggish.

Restarting the computer does not help.

mv ~/.config ~/.config-disabled (in Console) and restarting does not help.

I thought user settings were in ~/.config, apparently not, so where are they?

Restoring completely the Manjaro root partition solves the problem, which excludes a hardware breakdown.

Then, the problem can be reproduced.

Is there any way to start Gnome safely (with all custom settings disabled) from the console?

How to turn off zoom from the console or Alt F2 with gsettings or dconf?

Please excuse my superficial knowledge. I am only a hobbyist, thanks.

alba@mac2011-manjaro% inxi --full
System:
  Host: mac2011-manjaro Kernel: 6.1.69-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64
    Desktop: GNOME v: 45.2 Distro: Manjaro Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Apple product: MacBookPro8,1 v: 1.0
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Apple model: Mac-94245B3640C91C81 v: MacBookPro8,1
    serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Apple v: MBP81.88Z.0050.B00.1804101331
    date: 04/10/18
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 63.3 Wh (100.0%) condition: 63.3/62.9 Wh (100.7%)
CPU:
  Info: dual core model: Intel Core i5-2415M bits: 64 type: MT MCP cache:
    L2: 512 KiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 798 min/max: 800/2900 cores: 1: 798 2: 798 3: 798 4: 798
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics
    driver: i915 v: kernel
  Device-2: Apple FaceTime HD Camera driver: uvcvideo type: USB
  Display: x11 server: X.org v: 1.21.1.10 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.3 driver:
    X: loaded: modesetting dri: crocus gpu: i915 resolution: 1: 1920x1200~60Hz
    2: 1280x800~60Hz
  API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: crocus,swrast
    platforms: gbm,x11,surfaceless,device
  API: OpenGL v: 4.5 compat-v: 3.3 vendor: intel mesa v: 23.1.9-manjaro1.1
    renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 3000 (SNB GT2)
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition Audio
    driver: snd_hda_intel
  API: ALSA v: k6.1.69-1-MANJARO status: kernel-api
  Server-1: PulseAudio v: 16.1 status: active
Network:
  Device-1: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM57765 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe driver: tg3
  IF: enp2s0f0 state: down mac: 3c:07:54:20:0c:57
  Device-2: Broadcom BCM4331 802.11a/b/g/n driver: wl
  IF: wlp3s0 state: up mac: 28:cf:da:f2:ff:5c
  IF-ID-1: eth0 state: down mac: 16:20:5e:3c:b9:53
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Apple Bluetooth Host Controller driver: btusb type: USB
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 state: up address: see --recommends
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.36 TiB used: 477.96 GiB (34.2%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Crucial model: CT1000MX500SSD1 size: 931.51 GiB
  ID-2: /dev/sdb model: Disk size: 465.76 GiB type: FireWire
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 457.23 GiB used: 239.02 GiB (52.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 299.4 MiB used: 15.3 MiB (5.1%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/sda1
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 93.0 C mobo: 0.0 C
  Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 332 Uptime: 29m Memory: total: 16 GiB available: 15.54 GiB
  used: 6.84 GiB (44.0%) Shell: Zsh inxi: 3.3.31

This may be helpful:

I used the above method to find a repair.

Go to Console with Control Alt F3.

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.a11y.applications screen-magnifier-enabled false
sudo systemctl restart gdm

Moderator edit: Fixed it for you.

That setting is default, by the way…

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