Macbook display problem lines around program windows

What kind of problem is this? It appears after a while and around all program windows. OS Maverick and Macbook pro 2010

I have the same problem. Reinstalled mavericks but it didn´t solve the problem. It seems to appear when "" after saver sleep. It works fine until sleep mode. What that means i don't know

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