Popup dialogs transparent instead of showing any content

I used to think this was just an Eclipse bug, but it persist even after switching to IntelliJ Idea. I think this happens on other programs as well, but less frequently, and obviously matters far less.

Is there any workaround for this or do I just have to switch OS or something? I tried disabling compiz window fading but that didn't do any help.

OS: Ubuntu 15.10 WM: Whatever version of unity that ships with the above HW: Dell Latitude E7250 (non-touch, HD screen)

Solution 1:

I have sometimes had a situation like this happen to me. Along with an equally irritating black dialog version.

I found a solution in the answer to this question: 13.10 - Black borders, black terminal

Which was to restart unity. Pop open a terminal window and:

setsid unity

After things settle down, most dialog issues generally seem to have sorted themselves out.