Christopher, *-rc versions are the release Candidates, once I installed
it (http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.9-rc5) to check the
same bug (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1641152)
in November and ended up without WiFi. I can't work on *-rc.

The bug reproduced after the idle state, laptop lid closing or waking up
from the sleeping mode with frequency about once per ~20-30 such
actions. The probability seems to be higher when there are more opened
windows and external monitor is plugging. In fact, the last 2 issues
appeared on plugging the external monitor after the sleep mode. However
the bug sometimes (about twice during 4 months) reproduced even on pure
laptop without any external devices.

I think that you don't have many reports about this bug only because the
reporting should be done manually. Moreover, it's extremely hard for an
ordinary user to perform such reporting when the UI is totally broken
and apport-collect doesn't always success to report even if it was
called (as nico mentioned, and I also had the same issue with the
apport-collect).

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Info about the kernels:

[a few older kernels (< 4.4.0-50) have the UI scrambling issue]

-4.4.0-51  - OK:  UI scrambling has never occurred, but sometimes (when
UI scrambling occurs on another kernels) on this kernel system windows
become non-sensitive to the  mouse clicks: shortcuts on the desktop are
clicked behind the foreground window instead of it. This can be fixed by
closing and reopening the window (which does not help on another kernels
with the UI scrambling issue). On this kernel the windows can always be
moved using the title panel (the top bar of the window) even when the
remained part of the [foreground] window is not sensitive (transparent
for the mouse clicks).

-4.4.0-53, 4.4.0-57, 4.4.0-59  - UI scrambling issue

- 4.9.3-040903  - under the evaluation. It survived the stress testing
without any issues: intentional subsequent lid closing, laptop
suspending and external monitor plugging (up to 20 times). Now is under
the "working" testing as my default working kernel.

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  Scrambled UI: Text in the Unity windows disappears/mixed after the
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