You have been subscribed to a public bug: The best way for me to describe this is via video http://youtu.be/K2YyF2LIDEY?hd=1
The video has some more interesting stuff happen in the second half. During the video I clicked on the desktop and some of the launcher icons. To give a sense as to how up to date my packages are. After capturing this video I ran apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade and received the following http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=GNzAKDYQ ** Affects: unity (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: bot-comment -- Ubuntu 12.10 Unity Launcher Indicator Flickering https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1060348 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to unity in Ubuntu. -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp