Bug#761360: GNOME fix

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2015-04-01 17:27, Jason Rhinelander wrote:
> This is a NVIDIA driver bug, but it is only something that NVIDIA claims
> will be fixed at some indeterminate future date.  In the meantime,
> upstream gnome has applied a workaround (to 3.16.1, I think, but didn't
> make it into 3.16.0) for this, referenced in
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=739178 that basically forces
> a refresh of background instances during resume.
> 
> The two patches attached to that bug report apply to mutter (the
> "meta-background" patch) and gnome-shell (the "Refresh all background"
> patch), and apply cleanly to the 3.14 versions of those packages
> currently in testing.
> 
> I applied the patches, rebuilt mutter and gnome-shell, and the problem
> is gone: suspend and resume now work without any lock and desktop
> background garbling.

That's good news! Could you file bugs against mutter and gnome-shell?
Maybe they can manage to get the backported upstream solution into
jessie, still. This will likely become a frequent problem in jessie :-(

Thanks,

Andreas