Comment 7 for bug 1004197

It appears you are correct.

Also, just a bit of more info. The workaround you gave i.e. changing the size of the screen seems to fix the problem for the entire session. When I was opening two windows it was only fixing it for that particular server. So I recommend using jmilus' advice of resizing the window. That gets around the issue for now.

I'll have to test on another ubuntu machine to see if the issue is happening everywhere. You would think that if it were, we'd see a lot more people responding or posting the bug.

Perhaps it is something we have installed in common? I have substantially tried to lower my Compiz footprint by disabling a lot of the fancy graphics teaks.