Hi everyone,
I’m using Fedora 42 Workstation and have recently installed the NVIDIA proprietary drivers from RPM Fusion (in my case, it’s the nvidia-390xx version). Since then, I’ve noticed a strange visual issue in some GNOME applications.
The problem:
- A shadow, edge, or border appears in the UI, cutting off or overlapping the first letter or icon in some apps (e.g., GNOME Terminal).
- In GNOME Terminal, there’s no visual indication of which tab is active—the focus color or highlight is missing.
- There’s text cutoff or visual glitches in window borders, especially on the left side.
- This only started happening after installing the NVIDIA drivers.
Driver install method:
I followed the usual process using RPM Fusion:
sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia-390xx xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-390xx
sudo akmods --force
System info:
Please let me know if additional info is needed. For now, I can share the following to help diagnose:
❯ lspci | grep -i vga
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF119 [GeForce GT 610] (rev a1)
❯ lsmod | grep nvidia
nvidia_drm 69632 1
nvidia_modeset 1343488 17 nvidia_drm
nvidia 19804160 637 nvidia_modeset
ipmi_msghandler 110592 2 ipmi_devintf,nvidia
video 81920 1 nvidia
❯ echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE
x11
❯ gnome-shell --version
GNOME Shell 48.1
❯ uname -r
6.14.4-300.fc42.x86_64
❯ cat /etc/gdm/custom.conf | grep WaylandEnable
WaylandEnable=false
~
❯
I’ve confirmed that the NVIDIA module is loaded and working. Everything else seems functional, but this UI glitch is really distracting. Has anyone else run into this with legacy NVIDIA cards like the GT 610 on Fedora 42?
Any help or workaround (GNOME tweak, theme fix, config change, etc.) would be much appreciated!
Thanks in advance!
