WIth some more testing and searching around I figured out that compiz would not run. After tweaking X.org with the ppa of https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa, compiz worked and also thunderbird works just fine. so this seems not to be a soly thunderbird issue.
-- Thunderbird menus and dialog boxes are blank https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/615779 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
