OK, a bit of mud on my face. It seems I hadn't been pestered by update- manager for quite some time, so when I manually ran it, there was quite a large list of updates available. So for much for the "notify me weekly preference" ( but that's another problem ).
I'm quite happy to say that after the update, the problem *finally* seems to be resolved in chromium-browser and xchat-gnome. Awesome!!! FYI, after the update my system now is running compiz: 1:0.9.9~daily13.06.19~13.04-0ubuntu1. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/948059 Title: Menus appear empty (only shadow) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/compiz/+bug/948059/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs