Just some additional info that might help narrowing down the cause. I see this same effect on a machine running Arch Linux.
On this machine I use urxvt on top of the i3 window manager. (So not Gnome, KDE or Unity). It happens when text gets scrolled in the terminal window. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/861268 Title: text corruption in terminals (xterm, urxvt) and emacs To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/compiz/+bug/861268/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp