This was fixed when gnome-panel was ported to GTK 3 last year. gnome- panel works pretty well in Ubuntu 12.04.
** No longer affects: gnome-panel (Ubuntu Hardy) ** Changed in: gnome-panel (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Fix Released ** Changed in: gnome-panel (Ubuntu) Assignee: Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs) => (unassigned) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-panel in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/44082 Title: GNOME Panel icons (on right side) move apparently randomly on session start in some situations Status in Desktop panel for GNOME: Fix Released Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts: Invalid Status in “gnome-panel” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: The items on the gnome panel is disordered in some cases, one of these being changing the screen reolution, possibly other, more random, cases as well. ----- Temporary solution: Backup the state of your panel: gconftool-2 --dump /apps/panel > panel_backup.xml and then restore it whenever it gets messed up: gconftool-2 --load panel_backup.xml killall gnome-panel (kills and auto-respawns, possibly need to run gnome-panel & as well) ----- I have noticed for a while now that the above-mentioned phenomenon occurs when I, say, return from a shut-down. However, the strange thing is that it only happens on some occations. I don't really know what the problem is, so I can't, unfortunately, post more information. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-panel/+bug/44082/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp