The bug I filed upstream has been marked as a duplicate of this one: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=761124 And the good news is that the bug has already been fixed upstream in the unstable development version.
** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #761124 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=761124 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-system-monitor in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1539289 Title: Divisory line at the top partly disappears in certain cases Status in Ubuntu GNOME: New Status in gnome-system-monitor package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I have recently noticed that for instance if I open the System Monitor and have it so that it takes up half of my screen on one of the sides the top divisory line looks normal like this: System_Monitor_Screenshot1.png However if I then switch to the "Processes" tab this happens: System_Monitor_Screenshot2.png Then if I drag the window to the top of the screen and make it go fullscreen that way then the line disappears entirely: System_Monitor_Screenshot3.png And then if I go to the "Resources" tab the line becomes only in the centre and in a strange pattern off to the right in some cases: System_Monitor_Screenshot4.png Finally, if I I drag it away anywhere it becomes normal again. I am using the pre-installed Numix theme. --- OS Information: No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 15.10 Release: 15.10 Codename: wily Flavour: GNOME GNOME Version: 3.18 Package Information: gnome-system-monitor: Installed: 3.18.2-1~wily1 Candidate: 3.18.2-1~wily1 Version table: *** 3.18.2-1~wily1 0 500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/gnome3-team/gnome3-staging/ubuntu/ wily/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 3.16.0-2 0 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ wily/main amd64 Packages To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-gnome/+bug/1539289/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp