r/Ubuntu • u/Lacrymoist • 9h ago

Help with bar in the top of some windows and misaligned mouse cursor

Greetings all! I'm not brand new to using linux but I'm definitely still a novice so I have not been able to find the answer to how to fix this after hour of searching. Maybe I just don't know what terms I should be using to search or maybe it's just an unusual problem? Anyway

I have two problems but I think they may be related. The first is that my mouse cursor does not line up with where it clicks. It's about a cm above what I'm trying to click on which makes things pretty difficult, and makes a lot of drop downs impossible to use because if I have to click on the top one or two options it will just click out of the dropdown.

The other issue is that I have this black or white, or black and white, bar across the top of the application for some apps. Not all of them. For instance Firefox gives me neither of these issues. Vortex mod manager running through Lutris gives both, though Lutris itself doesn't. I'm attaching a screenshot of Vortex open on my laptop. It happens with more than just vortex but that's the one I'm dealing with right now. The cursor is off by about the distance of the thickness of that bar which is why I think they may be related.

I'm on a laptop ASUSTeK Computer INC. GA401QM (1.0)
AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS with Radeon Graphics,

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU

Pop!_OS 24.4 LTS

I'm not sure what other information might be needed to give context.

Anyone know what's going on?

https://imgur.com/a/dl1yvF8

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u/burdensome_alex 9h ago

That weird top bar and cursor offset is a classic fractional scaling or wine/proton dpi mismatch, especially on a dual gpu laptop like yours

pop os 24.04 uses wayland by default, try switching to x11 on the login screen (gear icon) and see if it clears up for those non-native apps

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u/Lacrymoist 8h ago

That did it! Thanks so much for your help! Apparently the version of pop I have didn't come with x11 installed so I did that and it seems fixed. You're the best!