Well, first of all, i am not on XFCE, i am on KDE Plasma. But, still, i used to have mouse cursor rendering issues “before” (not anymore). So maybe something have been fixed in plasma but not on xfce yet, i don’t know. I think mouse cursor issues were related to RPI Linux kernel, so maybe if you update to the new “release candidate” kernel, things might get fixed. Just try it. Install the following two packages:
linux-rpi5-rc
linux-rpi5-rc-headers
In any case, i have been using the Pi as my main desktop for the last 4 years or so. First, it was a Pi-4 and now it is a Pi-5 (Pi 5 is so much better). The most important thing, in my experience, if you don’t need it for specific applications, do not use wayland on a Pi. Wayland halves the graphical performance in video playback and other rendering tasks in any application. When you switch to X11, you will experience a much faster and responsive Pi. Wayland might be good for powerful machines or x86 computers, but for the Pi, it is not good. At least not yet.
You can test my claim by playing a youtube video of 1080p 60fps in Chromium with both X11 as backend and then the same video with wayland. You will realize that on X11, the video plays so much smoother with near to no frame skips. On wayland it turns into a stop motion animation.
Also, in order to get proper hw acceleration in Chromium, you need to create a file named “chromium-flags.conf” in the folder "/home/username/.config/ (enter your username) with the following content:
--ozone-platform-hint=auto
--in-process-gpu
--ignore-gpu-blocklist
--enable-zero-copy
--use-angle=gles