Comment 8 for bug 1503310

I'm experiencin the same issue. I can quote all of B. Nale's comment.
Nautilus, Gedit, Firefox... I have to drag the window to force repainting most of the time.

My current settings:

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise

$uname -a
Linux lucas-i5-u12 3.2.0-95-generic #135-Ubuntu SMP Tue Nov 10 13:33:29 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ nvidia-smi
Fri Dec 11 10:31:06 2015
+------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 340.96 Driver Version: 340.96 |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
| 0 GeForce GTX 660 Ti Off | 0000:01:00.0 N/A | N/A |
| 10% 24C P8 N/A / N/A | 344MiB / 2047MiB | N/A Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

This problem was also present with Nvidia drivers version 331.113.

The problem appeared after a routine software update, in which following packages were updated or installed:

* Installed:
linux-image-3.2.0-89-generic (3.2.0-89.127)
linux-headers-3.2.0-89 (3.2.0-89.127)
linux-headers-3.2.0-89-generic (3.2.0-89.127)

* Updated (not exhaustive, on demand):
linux-generic (3.2.0.88.102, 3.2.0.89.103)
linux-image-generic (3.2.0.88.102, 3.2.0-89.103)
linux-headers-generic (3.2.0.88.102, 3.2.0-89.103)
linux-libc-dev (3.2.0-88.126, 3.2.0-89-127)
libexpat1-dev (2.0.1-7.2ubuntu1.1, 2.0.1-7.2ubuntu1.2)
libsnmp15 (5.4.3~dfsg-2.4ubuntu1.2, 5.4.3~dfsg-2.4ubuntu1.3)
libexpat1 (2.0.1-7.2ubuntu1.1, 2.0.1-7.2ubuntu1.2) <- this line appears twice
libsnmpbase (5.4.3~dfsg-2.4ubuntu1.2, 5.4.3~dfsg-2.4ubuntu1.3)
libsvn1 (1.6.17dsfg-3ubuntu3.4, 1.6.17dsfg-3ubuntu3.5)
libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (2.26.1-1ubuntu1.1, 2.26.1-1ubuntu1.2) <- this line appears twice
xul-ext-ubufox (3.0-0ubuntu0.12.04.1, 3.1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1)
gir1.2-gdk-pixbuf-2.0 (2.26.1-1ubuntu1.1, 2.26.1-1ubuntu1.2)
libgdk-pixbuf2.0-common (2.26.1-1ubuntu1.1, 2.26.1-1ubuntu1.2)
firefox (39.0+build5-0ubuntu0.12.04.02, 40.0.3+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.01)

Some other packages (I don't know if they are related):
adobe-(flashplugin, flash-properties)
thunderbird-(globalmenu, gnome-support, locale-*)
icedtea-6-jre-(cacao, jamvm)
openjdk-6-jre-(headless, lib)
firefox-(locale-*, globalmenu)

I can not try upgrading Ubuntu to next LTS yet because I'm finishing some critical work first.