I can confirm that I have this problem on a Samsung N150 pine trail laptop (Intel graphics chipset). Since all new accounts are set up with normal (metacity) visual effects they all suffer from this graphical corruption. Logging in with a Gnome Failsafe session allows you to disable visual effects on an individual basis, but earlier in the thread Alkis mentioned LTSP and in a posting on their forum provided a command line workaround that solves the issue for all users:
sudo gconftool-2 --direct --config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory --type string --set /desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager metacity -- system GUI turn upside down when visual effects changed from none to normal https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/267269 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-intel in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ 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
