Fair point, didn’t think of it 
Here’s the inxi output:
System:
Kernel: 5.10.34-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10-x86_64
root=UUID=6cbf34ac-36f3-4ec1-a4d0-0dc6f3b26531 ro quiet
cryptdevice=UUID=85ee25bd-8d97-440e-9e82-1235b1e0950c:luks-85ee25bd-8d97-440e-9e82-1235b1e0950c
root=/dev/mapper/luks-85ee25bd-8d97-440e-9e82-1235b1e0950c
resume=/dev/mapper/luks-bc35ce15-8ea1-489a-81b5-85b05600277b
udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: GNOME 3.38.4 tk: GTK 3.24.29 wm: gnome-shell dm: GDM 3.38.2
Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Precision 5540 v: N/A serial: <filter>
Chassis: type: 10 serial: <filter>
Mobo: Dell model: 0FMYX6 v: A00 serial: <filter> UEFI: Dell v: 1.8.1
date: 07/03/2020
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 70.5 Wh (92.6%) condition: 76.1/97.0 Wh (78.4%)
volts: 12.1 min: 11.4 model: SMP DELL GPM0365 type: Li-ion serial: <filter>
status: Discharging
Memory:
RAM: total: 31 GiB used: 2.89 GiB (9.3%)
RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
Info: 8-Core model: Intel Core i9-9880H bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Kaby Lake note: check family: 6 model-id: 9E (158) stepping: D (13)
microcode: DE cache: L2: 16 MiB bogomips: 73598
Speed: 900 MHz min/max: 800/2300 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 900 2: 900 3: 901
4: 901 5: 900 6: 901 7: 900 8: 900 9: 901 10: 900 11: 900 12: 900 13: 900
14: 900 15: 900 16: 900
Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acpi adx aes aperfmperf apic arat arch_capabilities
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 ht hwp hwp_act_window
hwp_epp hwp_notify ibpb ibrs ibrs_enhanced 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
pts rdrand rdseed rdtscp rep_good 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 status: Not affected
Type: mds status: Not affected
Type: meltdown status: Not affected
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: Enhanced IBRS, IBPB: conditional, RSB filling
Type: srbds mitigation: TSX disabled
Type: tsx_async_abort mitigation: TSX disabled
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 630 vendor: Dell driver: i915 v: kernel
bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:3e9b class-ID: 0300
Device-2: NVIDIA TU117GLM [Quadro T2000 Mobile / Max-Q] driver: nvidia
v: 460.73.01 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm bus-ID: 01:00.0
chip-ID: 10de:1fb8 class-ID: 0302
Device-3: Microdia Integrated_Webcam_HD type: USB driver: uvcvideo
bus-ID: 1-12:4 chip-ID: 0c45:6723 class-ID: 0e02
Display: x11 server: X.org 1.20.11 compositor: gnome-shell driver:
loaded: modesetting,nvidia resolution: <missing: xdpyinfo>
OpenGL: renderer: Quadro T2000/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 460.73.01
direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_skl,snd_sof_pci bus-ID: 00:1f.3
chip-ID: 8086:a348 class-ID: 0403
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.34-1-MANJARO running: yes
Sound Server-2: JACK v: 0.125.0 running: no
Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes
Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.26 running: no
Network:
Device-1: Intel Wireless-AC 9260 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: 3000
bus-ID: 3b:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:2526 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp59s0 state: up mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
broadcast: <filter>
IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
IF-ID-1: docker0 state: down mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> scope: global broadcast: <filter>
WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel Wireless-AC 9260 Bluetooth Adapter type: USB driver: btusb
v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-4:2 chip-ID: 8087:0025 class-ID: e001
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 3 state: up address: see --recommends
Logical:
Message: No logical block device data found.
Device-1: luks-bc35ce15-8ea1-489a-81b5-85b05600277b maj-min: 254:1
type: LUKS dm: dm-1 size: 34.1 GiB
Components:
p-1: nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3 size: 34.1 GiB
Device-2: luks-85ee25bd-8d97-440e-9e82-1235b1e0950c maj-min: 254:0
type: LUKS dm: dm-0 size: 919.47 GiB
Components:
p-1: nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2 size: 919.47 GiB
RAID:
Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 953.87 GiB used: 53.33 GiB (5.6%)
SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Intel
model: SSDPEMKF010T8 NVMe 1024GB size: 953.87 GiB block-size:
physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 rotation: SSD
serial: <filter> rev: 7003 temp: 28.9 C scheme: GPT
Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 919.47 GiB size: 904.04 GiB (98.32%)
used: 53.33 GiB (5.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 254:0
mapped: luks-85ee25bd-8d97-440e-9e82-1235b1e0950c label: N/A
uuid: 6cbf34ac-36f3-4ec1-a4d0-0dc6f3b26531
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
used: 480 KiB (0.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1 label: N/A
uuid: A1E2-118F
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 34.1 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
dev: /dev/dm-1 maj-min: 254:1
mapped: luks-bc35ce15-8ea1-489a-81b5-85b05600277b label: N/A
uuid: bd5c68f1-d6ff-4e08-bcd3-398fbfaf2fa7
Unmounted:
Message: No unmounted partitions found.
USB:
Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 16 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 1-4:2 info: Intel Wireless-AC 9260 Bluetooth Adapter
type: Bluetooth driver: btusb interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s
power: 100mA chip-ID: 8087:0025 class-ID: e001
Device-2: 1-7:3 info: Shenzhen Goodix Fingerprint Reader
type: Abstract (modem),CDC-Data driver: N/A interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0
speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 27c6:5395 class-ID: 0a00
serial: <filter>
Device-3: 1-12:4 info: Microdia Integrated_Webcam_HD type: Video
driver: uvcvideo interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA
chip-ID: 0c45:6723 class-ID: 0e02
Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 10 rev: 3.1
speed: 10 Gb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Hub-3: 3-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Hub-4: 4-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 40.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 48 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0 fan-2: 0
Info:
Processes: 356 Uptime: 18m wakeups: 473 Init: systemd v: 247 tool: systemctl
Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0 Packages: 1205 pacman: 1174 lib: 375 flatpak: 23
snap: 8 Shell: Zsh v: 5.8 running-in: tilix inxi: 3.3.04
I have narrowed it down to three issues:
- On intel/hybrid: I notice some “cuts” when for example scrolling in my browser. It’s like someone made a diagonal/horizontal cut through my screen. Sometimes it’s just glitches like the content of the page get’s distorted. The best way I can describe it is that it’s like the page is scrolling so laggy that it’s trying to catch up or something.
- On intel/hybrid: my cursor glitches a lot. It’s like it’s blinking along with some kind of frequency. This only happens on my main monitor. My secondary display is okay. It doesn’t happen without the external display.
- On nvidia: my cursor tends to “hang”. When I don’t use my trackpad for x-amount of time (can’t figure it out) the cursor takes a second or two to catch up with my movements again.
So these strange things are happening on specific optimus-manager modes. I have the proprietary drivers installed and everything seems to work fine except for these minor issues. I now work on nvidia 100% because the cursor hanging is the least intrusive to my daily workflow.
As for the theme. Except for one gnome extension and display scaling, I changed nothing about my installation. Tbf, Manjaro Gnome came pretty close to how I want my workflow to be.