Strange screen behavious when flipping between users

The above happens occasionally when switching between users on my iMac. Anyone else have this happen - the screen looks like TV interference as it rotates to the other users desktop ?

Just as a post script...this was sorted by Apple ( had to delete the com.apple.systempreferences.plist file from home folder/....
This seems to have done the trick.
Other files they said to remove ( but weren't there ) were....
com.apple.pref.displayxxa.plist
com.apple.windowserver.xxa.plist

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