Keyboard shortcut renders screen and fonts unreadble

Hi everyone,
asked or daughter to start a radio stream this morning. When she tried to start the screen saver she must have hit a combination that changed the screen to wherw fonts look like they are duplicated just a few pixels apart and the resolution is visibly worse. Anyone have any pointers? I looked through all kinds of shortcut lists and preference windows, but to no avail.
Thanks!
martin
p. S. Running latest OS version, contrary to profile.

Do a backup.
Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Select Library. Then go to Preferences/com.apple.screensaver.plist. Move the .plist to your desktop.
Restart, open the application and test. If it works okay, delete the plist from the desktop.
If the application is the same, return the .plist to where you got it from, overwriting the newer one.
Thanks to leonie for some information contained in this.

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