Randomly corrupted text

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http://i.imgur.com/l4p3x.png
Basically, this started happening probably a month ago, happens in basically every application that uses gtk (to my knowledge), most notably transmission-gtk and firefox, but other windows including occasionally urxvt (which isn't gtk) suffer from the problem. Attempting to drag the window rectifies the issue until you stop moving the window. Window manager is compiz, running cairo-dock and stalonetray, urxvt for my terminal. nvidia drivers.

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Why does this keep happening to me?
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