Unity 5.8 keeps flickering

[Michael Terry]

I just upgrade to Unity 5.8 and the menu bar, dash, and launcher flash and flicker whenever the mouse moves over them.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: unity 5.8.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-20.32-generic-pae 3.2.12
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-20-generic-pae i686
.tmp.unity.support.test.0:

ApportVersion: 1.95-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 9a284f3f6b4f7829abbe27ad9573a709
CheckboxSystem: 3935143777c965daaa64b51f0134f712
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,decor,snap,vpswitch,place,compiztoolbox,regex,move,imgpng,grid,gnomecompat,mousepoll,resize,session,animation,workarounds,wall,fade,expo,scale,ezoom,unityshell]
CompositorRunning: compiz
Date: Sun Mar 25 13:30:59 2012
DistUpgraded: 2011-11-05 19:49:52,977 DEBUG enabling apt cron job
DistroCodename: precise
DistroVariant: ubuntu
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110422)
MachineType: System76, Inc. Lemur UltraThin
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-20-generic-pae root=UUID=0e585e80-16f1-404c-80cc-7d9805fcc3b0 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2011-11-05 (140 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 11/11/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies LTD
dmi.bios.version: CALPELLACRB.86C.0000.X.0000000000
dmi.board.asset.tag: Tag 12345
dmi.board.name: Lemur UltraThin
dmi.board.vendor: System76, Inc.
dmi.board.version: lemu2
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: System76, Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: lemu2
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologiesLTD:bvrCALPELLACRB.86C.0000.X.0000000000:bd11/11/2010:svnSystem76,Inc.:pnLemurUltraThin:pvrlemu2:rvnSystem76,Inc.:rnLemurUltraThin:rvrlemu2:cvnSystem76,Inc.:ct10:cvrlemu2:
dmi.product.name: Lemur UltraThin
dmi.product.version: lemu2
dmi.sys.vendor: System76, Inc.
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.7.2-0ubuntu1
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.32-1ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 8.0.2-0ubuntu2
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 8.0.2-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.11.4-0ubuntu7
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.7.0-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.99~git20111219.aacbd629-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.17.0-1ubuntu4
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20111201+b5534a1-1build2

[Ryan Davies (ryan-professional)]

Im also getting this.

Unity: 5.8.0-0ubuntu1
Kernel: 3.2.0-20-generic

I'm running dual head (Phillips display as main monitor, laptop screen as secondary.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

dup bug 963633

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 963093, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.