Ubuntu :: Wrong Characters Randomly Appearing On The Desktop?

Aug 28, 2010

I'm a old ubuntu user and It's a long time a have this problem (probably since Gutsy Gibbon) but just now I decided to ask for the community help to solve it, until now I fault every try.randomly, on my desktop and screen in general, appears something like confused characters composing strange writing, and the way to remove them is by selecting a empty area around them, dragging it with the left mouse button.

Those sort of writing appears everywhere on the screen but never over a open application area, those characters looks like a sort of refresh error that I'm unable to definitively remove.To let you better understand how this problem looks like, I link a snapshot of my desktop to show you the problem.

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Code: Select all:~$ hciconfig -a hci0
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[IMG]http://mshenrick.dyndns.org/Pictures/uf1.png
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[code]...

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Code: Select alluname -a
returns
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[Code]....

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