I believe I'm seeing this bug too, although I'm using gnome-panel in a Gnome session. I have a slightly different presentation, in that the icon appears and disappears; I don't get empty spaces. I upgraded my Karmic install to Lucid yesterday.
-- Systray icon appears, dissapears and duplicates https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/531339 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-power-manager in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs