Hi,
did anyone experienced weird artifacts within Activity overview? Anytime i go to activity overview these strange artifacts appears after a while. I've tried to disable 3D cube effect (as it seems that those are lines of other workspace edges from cube) and it does help, but i would like to have that 3d cube effect 
Also if i take a screenshot or video of them, they are not present in the video or picture ... and appears only if mouse cursor is not moving
So i took a photo with my phone:
I switch from Windows to Zorin like 10 months ago and this is the only issue i can't figure out.
Hello there. This might be caused by the lack of proprietary GPU drivers. What machine do you have? Do you have an Nvidia GPU?
If the answer is yes, please make sure you have installed your proprietary Nvidia driver.
Yes i have Nvidia and drivers are working properly ... at least in games
nvidia-smi
Tue Jan 7 00:06:37 2025
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 560.35.03 Driver Version: 560.35.03 CUDA Version: 12.6 |
|-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M | Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap | Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
| | | MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
| 0 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Off | 00000000:01:00.0 On | N/A |
| 0% 46C P5 20W / 285W | 712MiB / 12282MiB | 18% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
OK, first possible issue I just noticed, is that you are running the Nvidia 560 driver. Both @Michel and I have problems with the latest 560 driver. I would downgrade to the Nvidia 555 driver if you see it in your list, the same one you see me using in my screenshot. That will possibly fix your issue.
Because You are using an Nvidia Card: Is Your System in Wayland or Xorg Mode? to check that, go to Settings>About and look there for ''Window Manager'', ''Display Manager'' or similar and check if there stands Wayland or X11. If there stabds Wayland, ty it with switching to Xorg.
to do that, go to the Login Screen (not the Lock Screen). For this simply reboot Your Machine. On the Login Screen click on Your Profile so that the Password Field appears. It has to be appeared. when it is appeared, You should see in the bottom right corner a Gear Icon. click on it and choose the Option ''Zorin Desktop on Xorg'' and then log in and test it.
Screenshots are saved in the Pictures folder, but in ann extra folder, not directly:
With captured Videos it is the same, but there are saved in an extra folder in the Videos-Folder.
When You make a Screenshot, there is on the Screenshot-tool a Cursor. You have to click on that to show it; it is off by default. and when You make a video Capture and You turn the cursor on, it will move in the Video. Of Course not on a Screenshot.
I am on 565.77 driver for 2-3 days now, so far no issues.
@StarTreker I have the 560.35.03 driver since release date (Wed Aug 21, 2024) without any issue. I tried to install 550 and 565 drivers and sadly no change - still the artifacts are appearing 
@Ponce-De-Leon I don't think it's possible yet to be on Wayland with Nvidia
I don't think this issue is with GPU, when games are working fine. It doesn't even seem to be affected by changing different layouts in Zorin Appearance (i have Zorin Pro and i have switched layouts frequently). Guess i could reinstall whole Zorin to see if it happens on fresh install ... but i don't really want to 
It can because by default Zorin 17 runs in Wayland. So, You should check that.
I'm on X11, would love to be on Wayland though.
Edit: You were right i can change it to Wayland - and there are no artifacts! Thanks
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It works with Wayland? Okay, interesting. That wasn't what I want to say, but good when it works now.
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Supposedly, the latest Nvidia drivers now include Wayland support. Had the user been on the 545 driver - it would not have worked.
And not all Nvidia cards will work, even on the latest driver, if that hardware is old enough (2070ti for example).
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But this only works with the right Version of the Desktop Environment. But okay. When it works now, that is what matters.
