Ventura: After restart or screen saver, my mouse can't select anything but it moves.

It is fixed. It has to do with the Apple screen saver. I was using Drift in MacOS 12. In MacOs 13, Drift was slow to start but I never paid much attention to it. So I changed to Flurry and the spinning pizzas went away.

As I mentioned, I did everything: Safe boot, changed and deleted login items, reset NVPRAM and SMC; and reinstalled MacOS 13.1. Nothing worked.

Changed the Apple screen saver, it all went back to normal and works so good (so far).

I guess it is a foible of an Intel MacBook Pro and Ventura.

Thanks for all those comments.

I thought of that the minute I posted my comment. Anyway, I did a safe boot and found something that I am not sure has been updated to Ventura. But it seems to be better and probably ok. Thanks for such a speedy reply. I report back later if there is still an issue.

Hi, I have stopped a lot of useless things loading at start up. No difference. I am reset both the NVPRAM and the SMC: Maybe some difference. I have re-installed MacOS 13.1 in recovery mode: Maybe a bit of a difference.

I have 32GB of memory and about 2TB of space on my hard drive. Graphics: AMD Radeon Pro 5500M 8 GB

Intel UHD Graphics 630 1536 MB. I doubt it can be a resource issue but then who knows... It could also be a bug with the video drivers??

I have disabled the screen saver for a long time and don't turn off the screens. That is the last thing I can do. Maybe MacOS 13.2 will just fix it?

Thanks for the ideas.

Bill

Following on, there is no change after it went to sleep. I guess I will have to remove one start app at the time to see which is the culprit. Oh well....