Public bug reported:

I've updated to Ubuntu 20.04 a couple of weeks ago, and there are some
minor (but pretty annoying) issues with Gnome Shell every time I load
the system. The background image has some green/violet/black visual
artifacts, and the text elements in Gnome Shell incorrectly display some
of the symbol. Changing the background image removes the artifacts until
the next reboot (but if I select the previous one without rebooting,
then I still see the same artifacts, so it's probably cached somewhere).
Restarting the shell via Alt+F2 `r` usually removes the artifacts from
the background image, but the text issues are still present.

The issues are reprodicable with and without extensions, with 1.0, 1.5
and 2.0 display scaling factors applied, and they are not user-specific
(i.e. I was able to reproduce them after creating a new user from
scratch)

As far as I can say, only Gnome Shell is affected. All the applications
(including Gnome/GTK apps like Geary, Gedit, Tilix, both "native" and
flatpak) work fine without any issues

Sometimes, the application icons are also affected (as you can see on
one of the attached screenshots)

~> lsb_release -rd
Description:    Ubuntu Focal Fossa (development branch)
Release:        20.04

~> apt-cache policy gnome-shell
gnome-shell:
  Installed: 3.35.91-1ubuntu2
  Candidate: 3.35.91-1ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 3.35.91-1ubuntu2 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

~> gsettings get org.gnome.mutter experimental-features
['x11-randr-fractional-scaling']

~> uname -r
5.4.0-14-generic

hwinfo (videocard, monitor):
38: PCI 02.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA)
  [Created at pci.386]
  Unique ID: _Znp.pq3kk9M9L4C
  SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0
  SysFS BusID: 0000:00:02.0
  Hardware Class: graphics card
  Model: "Intel UHD Graphics 620"
  Vendor: pci 0x8086 "Intel Corporation"
  Device: pci 0x5917 "UHD Graphics 620"
  SubVendor: pci 0x17aa "Lenovo"
  SubDevice: pci 0x225c
  Revision: 0x07
  Driver: "i915"
  Driver Modules: "i915"
  Memory Range: 0x2ffa000000-0x2ffaffffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
  Memory Range: 0x2fa0000000-0x2fafffffff (ro,non-prefetchable)
  I/O Ports: 0xe000-0xe03f (rw)
  Memory Range: 0x000c0000-0x000dffff (rw,non-prefetchable,disabled)
  IRQ: 161 (64308 events)
  Module Alias: "pci:v00008086d00005917sv000017AAsd0000225Cbc03sc00i00"
  Driver Info #0:
    Driver Status: i915 is active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe i915"
  Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
43: None 00.0: 10002 LCD Monitor
  [Created at monitor.125]
  Unique ID: rdCR.R7Dpg_aaVOC
  Parent ID: _Znp.pq3kk9M9L4C
  Hardware Class: monitor
  Model: "LG Display LCD Monitor"
  Vendor: LGD "LG Display"
  Device: eisa 0x058b
  Resolution: 2560x1440@60Hz
  Size: 309x174 mm
  Year of Manufacture: 2016
  Week of Manufacture: 0
  Detailed Timings #0:
     Resolution: 2560x1440
     Horizontal: 2560 2608 2640 2720 (+48 +80 +160) -hsync
       Vertical: 1440 1450 1455 1481 (+10 +15 +41) +vsync
    Frequencies: 241.69 MHz, 88.86 kHz, 60.00 Hz
  Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
  Attached to: #38 (VGA compatible controller)

** Affects: gnome-shell (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Attachment added: "shell-example-2.png"
   
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1867668/+attachment/5337648/+files/shell-example-2.png

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  Visual artifacts in Gnome Shell after upgrading to 20.04

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