OK, this seems to be a Xorg bug in the "-background none" feature. Upstream bug 
reported here:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105518

Less likely but still possible is that mutter (used on the login screen)
is corrupting the framebuffer and "Xorg -background none" is then
innocently copying the corruption.

A workaround (which at least will avoid more bug reports from users) is
to remove these two lines from gdm3:

        g_ptr_array_add (arguments, "-background");
        g_ptr_array_add (arguments, "none");

That will reliably replace the corruption with blackness.

Have a nice day.

** Bug watch added: freedesktop.org Bugzilla #105518
   https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105518

** Also affects: xorg-server via
   https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105518
   Importance: Unknown
       Status: Unknown

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  Graphics corruption (or distortion?) in login animation to Xorg
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