Updating all packages breaks some programmes in gnome-shell

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I just upgraded my Manjaro and all of its packages. It has been some time (ok, maybe 5 months, but still).
Unfortunately, this has broken my gnome-shell somehow. I am using Manjaro with Gnome (also a gnome extention called Dash to dock)

After the update, the OS’s functionality is still there, dotnet and my development environments still work, firefox and thunderbird still work, but there are some programmes, which do not open graphically. If I open them, I just get an empty window showing the window behind as the UI. This happens for programmes like Slack, the Settings-app, the gnome extentions and nautilus.

I actually managed to open Slack by using this command:

__NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=0 __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=mesa slack

But not the others.

Is there anything I need to do with my graphics? I feel like I should know this.

This is my system info

inxi -F
System:
  Host: Moriarty Kernel: 6.1.131-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64
  Desktop: GNOME v: 47.5 Distro: Manjaro Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 21FA000KMX v: ThinkPad P16 Gen 2
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: LENOVO model: 21FA000KMX v: SDK0T76530 WIN
    serial: <superuser required> UEFI: LENOVO v: N3TET23W (1.10 )
    date: 11/21/2023
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 101.3 Wh (99.8%) condition: 101.5/93.5 Wh (108.5%)
CPU:
  Info: 16-core (8-mt/8-st) model: 13th Gen Intel Core i7-13700HX bits: 64
    type: MST AMCP cache: L2: 14 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1197 min/max: 800/4800:5000:3700 cores: 1: 1197 2: 1197
    3: 1197 4: 1197 5: 1197 6: 1197 7: 1197 8: 1197 9: 1197 10: 1197 11: 1197
    12: 1197 13: 1197 14: 1197 15: 1197 16: 1197 17: 1197 18: 1197 19: 1197
    20: 1197 21: 1197 22: 1197 23: 1197 24: 1197
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Alder Lake-HX GT1 [UHD Graphics 770] driver: i915 v: kernel
  Device-2: NVIDIA AD107GLM [RTX 2000 Ada Generation Laptop GPU]
    driver: nvidia v: 570.133.07
  Device-3: Syntek Integrated Camera driver: uvcvideo type: USB
  Display: x11 server: X.org v: 1.21.1.16 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.6 driver:
    X: loaded: modesetting,nvidia unloaded: nouveau dri: iris
    gpu: i915,nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch resolution: 1: 5120x1440~70Hz
    2: 2560x1600~165Hz
  API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: iris,nvidia platforms: gbm,x11,surfaceless,device
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.6 vendor: intel mesa v: 25.0.1-arch1.2
    renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics (ADL-S GT1)
  Info: Tools: api: eglinfo,glxinfo gpu: nvidia-settings,nvidia-smi
    x11: xprop,xrandr
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Raptor Lake High Definition Audio
    driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl
  Device-2: NVIDIA AD107 High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
  API: ALSA v: k6.1.131-1-MANJARO status: kernel-api
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.4.1 status: active
  Server-2: PulseAudio v: 17.0-43-g3e2bb status: active
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Raptor Lake-S PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi
  IF: wlp0s20f3 state: down mac: 32:c7:4c:f4:78:a7
  Device-2: ASIX AX88179 Gigabit Ethernet driver: ax88179_178a type: USB
  IF: enp0s20f0u1 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full
    mac: 7c:c2:c6:53:2a:53
  IF-ID-1: tailscale0 state: unknown speed: -1 duplex: full mac: N/A
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel AX211 Bluetooth driver: btusb type: USB
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 state: up address: see --recommends
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 953.87 GiB used: 191.67 GiB (20.1%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: MZVL21T0HDLU-00BLL
    size: 953.87 GiB
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 937.53 GiB used: 191.67 GiB (20.4%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 299.4 MiB used: 312 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 61.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (rpm): fan-1: 2539 fan-2: 2309
Info:
  Memory: total: 96 GiB note: est. available: 93.98 GiB used: 26.9 GiB (28.6%)
  Processes: 476 Uptime: 21m Shell: Zsh inxi: 3.3.37

And my graphics info

➜  ~ inxi -G
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Alder Lake-HX GT1 [UHD Graphics 770] driver: i915 v: kernel
  Device-2: NVIDIA AD107GLM [RTX 2000 Ada Generation Laptop GPU]
    driver: nvidia v: 570.133.07
  Device-3: Syntek Integrated Camera driver: uvcvideo type: USB
  Display: x11 server: X.org v: 1.21.1.16 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.6 driver:
    X: loaded: modesetting,nvidia unloaded: nouveau dri: iris
    gpu: i915,nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch resolution: 1: 5120x1440~70Hz
    2: 2560x1600~165Hz
  API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: iris,nvidia platforms: gbm,x11,surfaceless,device
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.6 vendor: intel mesa v: 25.0.1-arch1.2
    renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics (ADL-S GT1)
  Info: Tools: api: eglinfo,glxinfo gpu: nvidia-settings,nvidia-smi
    x11: xprop,xrandr

Is there anybody who has a solution for this?

I tried to search myself through the forums, but cannot identify my specific problem with an old topic. But I guess people have had this before

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When gnome misbehaves after an update - the most probable cause is a shell extension.

Disable all extensions - check if the issue persist - then enable your extensions one by one until you find the malfunctioning part.

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Sometimes it helps to switch temporarely from x11 to wayland and back.

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Failure to maintain your system as generally required for a rolling release distribution is likely also a factor.

As a matter of course, much has changed in that 5 months since you say you performed your last sync/update.

One might expect issues such as this.

Regards.

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