Comment 20 for bug 775702

I have the same symptoms in K3B, Inkscape, Gimp, and the ubuntu software center.

The problem appeared after I updated ubuntu 11.10 on 3/22/2012 and installed cairo-dock immediately after. I'm not sure which one may have caused the problem. Now I can't get rid of those icons and they are really distracting.

These are the changes I made to ubuntu 11.10 that started the problem.
Packages updated:

thunderbird-globalmenu
gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio
gstreamer0.10-plugins-good
software-center
checkbox
gstreamer0.10-gconf
thunderbird
xserver-xorg-video-openchrome
checkbox-gtk

Packages Installed:

libetpan15
cairo-dock-plug-ins-data
cairo-dock-core
culr
cairo-dock-data
libgtkglext1
cairo-dock-plugins-integration
cairo-dock
cairo-dock-plug-ins

Any workarounds?