problem when adding new panels to gnome desktop

not confirming the issue there

>When adding new panels to the gome desktop they do not appear until I either add a launcher or applet to one of the showing panels >or drag an existing icon to another position on the panel.

I had to log out and log in again to make the panels appear, before the active window just shrank for the size of a panel.

To reproduce the main issue in Lucid:

1. Right click the top panel and select "New Panel". Nothing seems to happen.
2. Right click the top panel and select "Add to Panel..." and add e.g. the brightness applet. A panel becomes visible on the side of the screen.

Alternatively at least logout+login makes the panel visible.

The same happens to me with Lucid updated to now.

Maybe this helps debugging:

- When using two monitors, if you add a new panel to the right border of the screen that is on the left side, the panel is rendered on the left edge of the screen that is on the right side.

- In a single monitor setup, if you add a new panel to the bottom of the screen (in addition to the default one), the existing panel is moved up and a space for the new panel is allocated between it and the bottom of the screen. Very probably the new panel is then rendered below this space, out of the visible screen area.

So the "invisibility" reported is in fact the panel being rendered out of the screen.

Restarting X makes the panels visible in their correct positions.

I'm requesting that this bug be moved from low to something higher. Lucid should not have shipped with this bug. I thought I was going insane earlier until I tried opening a new maximized window. Is there any true workaround as the group I work with has shipped ~600 computers this year so far, and we plan on increasing the rate. Those computers were XP, but we're switching to Ubuntu now, and if we have to explain how to fix this issue on ~2000 computers, it's just not going to happen. Is this Ubuntu specific or GNOME or GDE or what?

The bug might be annoying, but the default configuration has 2 gnome-panel, do you really have so many users using 3 of those? The bug is only cosmetic until session restart. We will try to get it fixed in lucid updates but it's still low importance, arguing over settings will not make it fixed faster anyway since what it requires is somebody to debug the issue rather than other settings

I am brand new to anything but windows. I have installed this OS over and over again for a week now. So far I have learned to force the installer to recognize my other multiple hard drive OS's.... mess with grub2... install and remove things and countless other stuff. As I go along I keep having issues.

I have one very similar to this if not the same. On boot I get multiple errors as above with all my taskbar applets, can no longer right click anything to copy text or past, tried removing apps, adding them, and even as I said earlier re-installing the OS. As soon as I do an update.... BOOM!!! Its back!

One thing I noticed on all the forums... This issue has been around since 2008 in varying degrees. This is sad because I really liked the idea of gettin' past my Windrawals. Here I go again with yet ANOTHER re-install. This time NO updates until it is "resolved"... hopefully.

I'm great at fixing windows problems, I think I'll be a master by the time it's the way I like it ;-)

Almost forgot... need anything from me/my system while I re-install to a fresh hdd? Maybe you all can learn something from my system as I have nothing saved in here yet and am not afraid to try fixes or run reports, etc. (You just might have to explain how, in detail.) Maybe I'll keep this hdd/os for debugging.

Accepted gnome-panel into lucid-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

I can confirm that the proposed package fixes the issue. Haven't noticed any regressions either.

Sorry. Accidentally changed the status.

I can confirm the bug fix worked.
Paul
Thanks

On 06/01/2010 08:51 AM, Martin Pitt wrote:
> ** Tags added: verification-done
> ** Tags removed: verification-needed
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This bug was fixed in the package gnome-panel - 1:2.30.0-0ubuntu2

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gnome-panel (1:2.30.0-0ubuntu2) lucid-proposed; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/90_git_new_unhidden.patch:
    - git change to fix an issue leading to new gnome-panel bars not being
      displayed until restart (lp: #525368)
 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Fri, 28 May 2010 10:50:19 +0200

Sebastien, please upload the SRU fix for this to maverick, too. Thanks!

the change is already in the maverick version, closing the bug

actually, i followed the instructions of installing the package from proposed, but it keeps telling me that no such package.. i updated it from synaptic and the bug disappeared. thanx..