Desktop background turns black on one monitor

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Desktop background turns black on one monitor

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Hi all,

Sort of a minor problem, but baffling all the same...

Situation: I have two monitors and multiple (6) workspaces and I picked a nice background image. Occasionally, the background of one of the monitors turns black - no image, just black (happens to the left one the most but also the right monitor). I don't actually see it happening. Usually I notice it when I switch from a workspace where I've used an application full-screen, and on the same monitor, different workspace, the screen is black. Any windows there were (and desktop icons) are still visible and operable just fine - it's as if I had gone and selected a black background. However - not quite the same, because the other monitor is still displaying the configured background image.

The workaround is to right-click and select "Change Desktop Background", change the background image then change it back.

Any ideas? I have no idea what controls the desktop background. Why is it going blank?

Charles

Machine info:

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$ inxi -Fx
System:    Host: simulacron Kernel: 5.15.0-58-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A Desktop: MATE 1.26.0 
           Distro: Linux Mint 20.3 Una base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal 
Machine:   Type: Desktop Mobo: Micro-Star model: H370 GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7B16) v: 1.0 serial: <superuser/root required> 
           UEFI [Legacy]: American Megatrends v: 1.10 date: 02/24/2018 
CPU:       Topology: 6-Core model: Intel Core i5-8600K bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Kaby Lake rev: A L2 cache: 9216 KiB 
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 43200 
           Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 800/4300 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 974 3: 1027 4: 800 5: 1051 6: 800 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 630 vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 
           Device-2: AMD Baffin [Radeon RX 460/560D / Pro 450/455/460/555/555X/560/560X] vendor: Gigabyte driver: amdgpu 
           v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.0 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.13 driver: amdgpu,ati,modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa 
           resolution: 3840x2160~60Hz, 3840x2160~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: AMD Radeon RX 460 Graphics (POLARIS11 DRM 3.42.0 5.15.0-58-generic LLVM 12.0.0) 
           v: 4.6 Mesa 21.2.6 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1f.3 
           Device-2: AMD Baffin HDMI/DP Audio [Radeon RX 550 640SP / RX 560/560X] vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel 
           v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.1 
           Device-3: ARC Camera type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo bus ID: 1-1.1.3:8 
           Device-4: Logitech Logitech USB Headset type: USB driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus ID: 1-10:9 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.15.0-58-generic 
Network:   Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-V vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: e1000e v: kernel port: efa0 bus ID: 00:1f.6 
           IF: eno1 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 30:9c:23:a0:57:eb 
           IF-ID-1: vboxnet0 state: down mac: 0a:00:27:00:00:00 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 25.01 TiB used: 19.87 TiB (79.4%) 
           ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Crucial model: CT1000P1SSD8 size: 931.51 GiB 
           ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1 vendor: Intel model: SSDPEKNW020T8 size: 1.86 TiB 
           ID-3: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD120EFBX-68B0EN0 size: 10.91 TiB 
           ID-4: /dev/sdb vendor: Western Digital model: WD8002FZWX-00BKUA0 size: 7.28 TiB 
           ID-5: /dev/sdc vendor: Western Digital model: WD30EFRX-68EUZN0 size: 2.73 TiB 
           ID-6: /dev/sdd vendor: Western Digital model: WD30EFRX-68EUZN0 size: 2.73 TiB 
           ID-7: /dev/sde vendor: Samsung model: SSD 850 EVO 500GB size: 465.76 GiB 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 392.65 GiB used: 102.81 GiB (26.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme1n1p1 
           ID-2: /home size: 1.38 TiB used: 1.28 TiB (93.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme1n1p5 
           ID-3: swap-1 size: 72.00 GiB used: 4.7 MiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/nvme1n1p2 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 31.0 C mobo: 31.0 C gpu: amdgpu temp: 45 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): fan-1: 0 fan-2: 653 fan-3: 1412 fan-4: 870 fan-5: 909 fan-6: 0 fan-7: 0 gpu: amdgpu fan: 892 
Info:      Processes: 472 Uptime: 3d 13h 05m Memory: 62.68 GiB used: 35.96 GiB (57.4%) Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Compilers: 
           gcc: 9.4.0 Shell: bash v: 5.0.17 inxi: 3.0.38 
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