Windows sometimes don't redraw their contents

Sometimes, when I obscure a window by another one or switch desktops, some of my windows have "blank" areas. When I then force the window to redraw somehow, like by clicking on something that changes its content, the window gets back to normal. I've seen this happen for urxvt that uses Xlib directly, AFAIK, xfce4-panel that's GTK+ app and Kopete or KTorrent which use KDE toolkit -- so it doesn't seem to be related to any particular GUI toolkit. I can't really reproduce it either.
This is a screenshot of what it looks like:
I don't really have an idea of what could be going on. I'm not running any compositor or anything else that gives fancy looks -- just plain OpenBox.
If you can point me in some direction, you'll be welcome.

carlocci wrote:I don't get what's wrong with the picture.
Post your xorg.conf / videocard magic though
The "empty" portions of the irssi and Kopete Contact List windows are wrong. The only modification to the picture I did was blurring the conversation -- otherwise it's what actually was on my screen.
I'm using NVidia drivers, nvidia-173.14.09-4 and nvidia-utils-173.14.09-1 are the packages installed.
My somewhat messy xorg.conf:
Section "Module"
Load "dbe" # Double buffer extension
#SubSection "extmod"
#Option "omit xfree86-dga" # don't initialise the DGA extension
#EndSubSection
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "bitmap"
# Load "xtt"
Load "glx"
Load "extmod"
# Load "dri"
EndSection
Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/local"
#FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/corefonts"
#FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/freefonts"
#FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/sharefonts"
#FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/terminus"
#FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera"
#FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/unifont"
#FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/artwiz-fonts"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/encodings"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "kbd"
Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc101"
Option "XkbLayout" "us,cz"
Option "XkbVariant" ",qwerty"
Option "XkbOptions" "grp:menu_toggle,compose:rwin,grp_led:scroll"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" # IntelliMouse PS/2
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Q770"
HorizSync 30-70
VertRefresh 50-100
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "NVidia GeForce"
Driver "nvidia"
VideoRam 131072
Option "NoLogo" "true"
Option "CursorShadow" "true"
Option "HwCursor" "true"
Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
Option "RenderAccel" "true"
Option "UseEdidDpi" "false"
Option "DPI" "96 x 96"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
Option "NvAGP" "0"
Option "DamageEvents" "true"
Option "UseEvents" "true"
Option "TripleBuffer" "true"
Option "BackingStore" "true"
Option "UseCompositeWrapper" "true"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen 1"
Device "NVidia GeForce"
Monitor "Q770"
DefaultDepth 24
Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Simple Layout"
Screen "Screen 1"
InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
# Section "DRI"
# Mode 0666
# EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "enable"
Option "DAMAGE" "enable"
Option "RENDER" "enable"
EndSection

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