I'm facing this problem too. It occurs in several apps from native gnome up to eclipse..
It occurs opnly when using compiz. If I turn of the eye candy it's all fine.. I'm using the most current version of the proprietary nvidia driver, normally avaliable over apt.. Ubuntu Hardy Kernel: 2.6.24-19-generic Hardware: lenovo t61 cpu: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7500 @ 2.20GHz, 2200 MHz Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7500 @ 2.20GHz, 2200 MHz keyboard: /dev/input/input11 Microsoft Comfort Curve Keyboard 2000 /dev/input/event1 AT Translated Set 2 keyboard mouse: /dev/input/mice Apple Macintosh mouse button emulation /dev/input/mice SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad /dev/input/mice TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint graphics card: Lenovo Quadro NVS 140M sound: Lenovo HD Audio Controller storage: Lenovo Mobile SATA Controller AHCI Lenovo Mobile IDE Controller network: wlan0 Intel WLAN controller eth0 Lenovo Ethernet controller network interface: wlan0 WLAN network interface wmaster0 Network Interface eth0 Ethernet network interface lo Loopback network interface hth, Axel -- Redraw problems when scrolling in GNOME https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/43267 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs