After deinstalling xserver-xorg-video-nouveau everything works as expected. So it seems to be a problem of the interaction of the driver with the graphics card:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation NV31 [GeForce FX 5600] [10de:0312] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) I changed the target of this bug accrodingly. Since it's a friend's computer, I won't be able to do more testing on this. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/995913 Title: White desktop, no launcher icons To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/995913/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
