Gnome shell and proprietary Nvidia

Question

Hello,
I've been having a weird issue with gnome shell on my notebook
when using the proprietary nvidia driver for my Quadro NVS 160M.
All packages are up to date, this has been happening for several weeks
now.
Usually it works flawlessly, very fast, swift, but sometimes - and I can't
put my finger on a cause - it seems to choke on the desktop effects.
When that happens every time an effect utilizing resizing stuff or using
transparency comes up (like, alt-tab, using activites, tooltip fading in)
the system becomes unresponsive and unbearably slow for some time.
I can still move the mouse, but the screen only refreshes every
few seconds. This lasts for a long time, sometimes minutes, sometimes
forever (10 minutes is the longests i've waited before rebooting).
I can't even switch to a terminal and kill Xorg or anything.
The time it takes seems random and not dependend on the length or
complexity of the animation - but the longer it's been going the higher
is the chance that it stays for very long.
I'm a bit frustrated with the issue. With the nouveau driver it works
without any shennanigans like that, but of course the 3D Performance
is horrid and I don't have that many reserves to sacrifice with the card.
So did anybody experience something similar or might have an idea
for a solution?

Answer 1

I know that I'm a bit late and I know that maybe it is not the right solution but I eventually managed to get full screen under gnome shell placing minecraft window on a new workspace and then toggling full screen mode. It worked for me, I hope this may be useful to someone.