Intermittently, when putting the laptop into sleep mode, the current virtual desktop wallpaper will come up as a garbled collection of dots of color. Always the same set, regardless of which desktop wallpaper was up. Since you took away the ability to do a krefresh, and the qdbus is a MONSTROUS mess, and you've not seen fit to give general users ANY tool to easily refresh the screen, the ONLY solution seems to be to restart the entire freaking desktop (ctrl-alt-bs). Great job guys! You made my favorite desktop really freaking suck. If I didn't hate gnome's granny interface so much I'd totally abandon it. XFCE doesn't handle all the things I occasionally need for a production desktop or I'd have totally switched over long ago.

I even installed qdbusviewer to try and find a command to refresh it. No luck, and searching various forums only showed the aggravation of others. I might as well be running Windows.


64 bit Linux Mint 17, default install with no added or removed packages. Asus N56VJ (Intel Core i7-3630QM CPU @ 2.40GHz), 6GB RAM, NVidia GEForce GT 635M (2GB RAM) now using NVidia driver. Still same thing.

There'd still be "xrefresh", just that I doubt that this will help you anything here.
Since you're running on nvidia and this is about STR, you might run into viewtopic.php?f=111&t=121590 (try whether pressing Shift+Alt+F12 twice restores the screen)