I'm seeing the same corruption in Gnome Shell in Ubuntu Xenial, it's not Unity-specific. I'm using the intel graphics driver from ppa:oibaf /graphics-drivers (to try and upgrade myself out of the issue), but it was happening before changing to a custom PPA.
** Attachment added: "Output of lspci -vvv" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity8/+bug/1583088/+attachment/4668589/+files/lspci.out -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to unity8 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1583088 Title: Randomly corrupt characters in text rendering, mainly in Unity8 window titlebars Status in gnome-desktop package in Ubuntu: New Status in qtmir package in Ubuntu: New Status in unity8 package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Corrupted characters in text rendering, mainly in Unity8 window titlebars. I think this is a new issue. It only started happening (on xenial desktop) in the past month or two. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-desktop/+bug/1583088/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

