Ugly looking notifications in ubuntu 16.04

Question

My notifications appear with this weird look.

What caused this?

$ uname -a      
Linux dev-pc 4.13.0-37-generic #42~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Mar 7 16:03:28 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ unity --version
unity 7.4.5

$ comm -23 <(apt-mark showmanual | sort -u) <(gzip -dc /var/log/installer/initial-status.gz | sed -n 's/^Package: //p' | sort -u)
curl
docker-ce
git
google-chrome-stable
i3
libbz2-dev
libncurses5-dev
libsqlite3-dev
libssl-dev
p7zip
python-setuptools
sublime-text
tixati
zlib1g-dev
zsh

Maybe this can help: https://askubuntu.com/questions/128474/how-to-customize-on-screen-notifications — lubumbax, Mar 18 '18 at 21:41
i tried sudo apt purge notify-osd followed by sudo apt install notify-osd. Didnt work — Dev Aggarwal, Mar 19 '18 at 17:21
Someone else suggested i remove the xfce4-notifyd package, but i dont have that installed — Dev Aggarwal, Mar 19 '18 at 17:24
Have you tried switching to another theme? Maybe also creating a dummy new user? — lubumbax, Mar 19 '18 at 19:09
I have no theme, and i don't intend to mess with the default one. I will try that new user you say. This problem isnt specific to spotify btw, also happens with network manager — Dev Aggarwal, Mar 19 '18 at 19:44

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 26 '18 at 20:08

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I ran sudo apt install ubuntu-desktop, which installed some missing packages and after a reboot, it was restored to normal!

answered Mar 26 '18 at 20:08

Dev Aggarwal

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Ugly looking notifications in ubuntu 16.04

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