Does it really freeze or use 100% CPU? It'd be nice to describe the content of the panel :-) You can also attach the output of gconftool-2 --dump /apps/panel
Do you have an applet in this drawer? I'm wondering if this could be because of some applet now being in the same process than the panel... -- using nested drawers in a panel causes gnome-panel to freeze https://launchpad.net/bugs/46438 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs