I'm seeing the same corruption in Gnome Shell in Ubuntu Xenial, it's not Unity-specific. I'm using the intel graphics driver from ppa:oibaf /graphics-drivers (to try and upgrade myself out of the issue), but it was happening before changing to a custom PPA.
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