Comment 72 for bug 762478

I'm getting this same problem, but with one difference: my icons are all spread out vertically. They're much farther apart than they were before.

The thing is, I don't know if it's as simple as a nouveau bug for me. It had been working properly for months. I went away for vacation for ten days, without turning off my computer or even logging out; and when I came back, all my icons were invisible.

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G96 [Quadro FX 380] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
 Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Device 063b
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
 Memory at fa000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
 Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
 Memory at f8000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32M]
 I/O ports at ec00 [size=128]
 [virtual] Expansion ROM at fbe80000 [disabled] [size=512K]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: nvidia
 Kernel modules: nvidia_current, nouveau, nvidiafb

unity --reset and unity --reset-icons seem to have just made it worse (because now I can't find my terminal or chrome buttons).