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Asked: 2016-02-08 21:13:51 +0800 CST

GUI broken or renders improperly - Ubuntu

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Simply, the GUI windows are breaking down.

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As you can see in the above image, the text in the launched windows is unreadable.There's also some black shade around the corners of the active window. I don't know why this occurs, and most of the time it happens to every window (Not only for the window in the screenshot).

Here's my system configuration

Memory : 2.9 GiB
Processor : Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU E5200 @ 2.50GHz × 2 
Graphics : Intel® G33 x86/MMX/SSE2
OS Type: 32-bit
Disk : 75.5 GB

Linux John 3.19.0-25-generic #26~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 24 21:18:00 UTC 2015 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux

So here are my questions:

1) Is this happening,because of the low system configuration? If yes, which would be the most suitable linux distribution for the above configuration ? (I just want to run Android Studio in the OS).

2) If it's not a system configuration problem, How can I fix this?

If you have any questions, ask me in the comments please.

14.04

2 Answers

  1. You might want to run a lighter desktop even if you can fix the glitching. Mate is pretty good for low-spec setups. You don't need another distro, just add mate to your existing setup. They have some fairly good documentation on getting setup.

    http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/download

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  2. You can also try this:

    dconf reset -f /org/compiz/

    then

    setsid unity
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