Thanks for jumping in! The corruption did not immediately recur. I will execute the turn-off for a longer period, and report back with the behavior tomorrow.
woodwardjd@mango:~$ xscreensaver-command -exit xscreensaver-command: exiting. woodwardjd@mango:~$ ps axuwf | grep xscreen 1000 9827 0.0 0.0 12044 908 pts/2 S+ 01:02 0:00 | \_ grep --color=auto xscreen woodwardjd@mango:~$ xset dpms force off; sleep 5; xset dpms force on woodwardjd@mango:~$ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/955585 Title: garbled text in emacs and odd colors in xfce4-terminal after being logged in for a while To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/955585/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs