Comment 7 for bug 758014

Well, I ended up trying the other Nvidia driver sooner rather than later because of this issue. Literally, the comp is nearly unusable otherwise: the Nvidia configuration screen is too big, resulting in a white out; the ubuntu system settings dialog is too big, resulting in a white out. Neither one of those can be made smaller than it already is. I'm not trying to be a prat here, but I do want to communicate that the symptoms we're experiencing are not trivial.

Now, downgrading the driver seems to have made a pretty big difference. I'm writing this in a maximized FF, and I can maximize Terminal and LibreOffice also (ditto for System settings). The Nvidia version appears to be 173 (I have no idea what the "recommended" one is - the dialog doesn't say).

As before, let me know what additional information I can provide.