Unity Notifications do not look normal?
Ok so I think this is because I am missing a package. My unity notifications (ex. when unity tells me it is connected to a network) look ugly. They used to be translucent chameleon rectangles. Now they are white and totally different. See the picture below.
I figured it out. I had xfce4-notifyd installed so a quick sudo apt-get purge xfce4-notifyd solved the problem.