Windows Locking Up, Nemo, Firefox, xed, etc..

[mintyblue]

These issues are not application specific. Whenever I click the minimize button the application will not minimize. It will freeze the application window and the other buttons or cause the application window to disappear when clicking the maximize button. The exit button does not function at all. I have to click the application on the task bar to restore functionality and not all functions are always restored. When acting up, If I try to drag and drop a file into a folder, it acts like the folder isn't there and drops the file on the desktop behind the folder. It started after I did the latest update, with apt. I suspected a kernel issue and I booted with an older kernel and the same issue occurs. As you can see below, I'm currently using 5.15.0-60 and not 5.15.0-69, which is also installed. I created a new user and the new user did not seem to be affected. Searching the Linux Mint Forums and Google did not help me get any closer to finding an answer. Any help is appreciated, thanks!

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System:
  Kernel: 5.15.0-60-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.3.0
    Desktop: Cinnamon 5.4.12 tk: GTK 3.24.33 wm: Mutter vt: 7
    dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Linux Mint 21 Vanessa base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: LENOVO product: 10FH002DUS v: ThinkCentre M900
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 3 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: LENOVO model: 30BC v: SDK0J40705 WIN 3425052813143
    serial: <superuser required> UEFI: LENOVO v: FWKTB5A date: 01/05/2021
Battery:
  Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse M325
    serial: <filter> charge: 100% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes
    status: Discharging
CPU:
  Info: quad core model: Intel Core i7-6700 bits: 64 type: MT MCP
    smt: enabled arch: Skylake-S rev: 3 cache: L1: 256 KiB L2: 1024 KiB
    L3: 8 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1486 high: 3042 min/max: 800/4000 cores: 1: 1000
    2: 1006 3: 1052 4: 1081 5: 1000 6: 1029 7: 3042 8: 2685 bogomips: 54398
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GK208B [GeForce GT 720] vendor: Micro-Star MSI
    driver: nvidia v: 470.161.03 pcie: speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 8 bus-ID: 01:00.0
    chip-ID: 10de:1288 class-ID: 0300
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.3 driver: X: loaded: nvidia
    unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa gpu: nvidia display-ID: :0
    screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3840x1080 s-dpi: 92 s-size: 1060x301mm (41.7x11.9")
    s-diag: 1102mm (43.4")
  Monitor-1: DP-0 pos: right res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 93
    size: 527x296mm (20.7x11.7") diag: 604mm (23.8")
  Monitor-2: DP-1 pos: primary,left res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 93
    size: 527x296mm (20.7x11.7") diag: 604mm (23.8")
  OpenGL: renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GT 720/PCIe/SSE2
    v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 470.161.03 direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 100 Series/C230 Series Family HD Audio vendor: Lenovo
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a170
    class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: NVIDIA GK208 HDMI/DP Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 8
    bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0e0f class-ID: 0403
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.0-60-generic running: yes
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-LM vendor: Lenovo driver: e1000e v: kernel
    port: N/A bus-ID: 00:1f.6 chip-ID: 8086:15b7 class-ID: 0200
  IF: eno1 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 465.76 GiB used: 421.1 GiB (90.4%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WDBNCE5000PNC
    size: 465.76 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 20RL
    scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 456.89 GiB used: 421.09 GiB (92.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 511 MiB used: 6.1 MiB (1.2%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/sda1
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 2 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
    file: /swapfile
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 29.8 C mobo: 27.8 C gpu: nvidia temp: 42 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 43%
Repos:
  Packages: 2839 apt: 2813 flatpak: 26
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/crowdsec_crowdsec.list
    1: deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/crowdsec_crowdsec-archive-keyring.gpg] https://packagecloud.io/crowdsec/crowdsec/ubuntu/ jammy main
    2: deb-src [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/crowdsec_crowdsec-archive-keyring.gpg] https://packagecloud.io/crowdsec/crowdsec/ubuntu/ jammy main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list
    1: deb [arch=amd64] https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/obsproject-obs-studio-jammy.list
    1: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/obsproject/obs-studio/ubuntu jammy main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
    1: deb http://packages.linuxmint.com vanessa main upstream import backport
    2: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy main restricted universe multiverse
    3: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
    4: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
    5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-security main restricted universe multiverse
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/teamviewer.list
    1: deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/teamviewer-keyring.gpg] https://linux.teamviewer.com/deb stable main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vivaldi.list
    1: deb [arch=amd64] https://repo.vivaldi.com/stable/deb/ stable main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list
    1: deb [arch=amd64,arm64,armhf] http://packages.microsoft.com/repos/code stable main
Info:
  Processes: 314 Uptime: 1h 21m wakeups: 4 Memory: 15.55 GiB
  used: 3.1 GiB (19.9%) Init: systemd v: 249 runlevel: 5 Compilers:
  gcc: 11.3.0 alt: 11/12 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16 running-in: gnome-terminal
  inxi: 3.3.13

[mintyblue]

I believe I fixed the issue. As stated above, in my original post, a new user profile did not experience the same issues. So I looked in the /home directory of the new profile and found the directories and folders listed below. .cache in my user profile had over 2gb of data. I renamed the folder to .cache.bak and created a new .cache folder, then rebooted. After roughly 30 minutes of use, I have not had any repeat of the issues in my original post.

directories
.cache/
.config/
.cinnamon/
.hplip/
.linuxmint/
.local/
.nv/
.themes/

files
.bash_logout
.bashrc
.dmrc
.gtkrc-2.0
.gtkrc-xfce
.profile
.Xauthority
.xsession-errors
.xsession-errors.old