Well, I can't seem to figure out how to reproduce this bug except that it *seems* to generally just be the state of affairs in "non-fresh" sessions. This is as opposed to "fresh" sessions which are ones started by logging in just after I've rebooted or otherwise just powered up the system. Generally, "fresh" sessions don't seem to exhibit the problem while "non-fresh" sessions do about %25 of the time.
Now, while this bug is annoying, I understand that it's not the highest priority (a HUP signal sent to gnome-panel seems to always fix it). For anyone else who finds this annoying, however, here's my temporary "work- around": user@host:~$ mkdir -p ~/bin user@host:~$ cat <<EOF > ~/bin/reset-panel > #!/bin/sh > ps -C gnome-panel -o pid h | xargs kill -HUP > EOF user@host:~$ chmod a+x ~/bin/reset-panel user@host:~$ echo $PATH | tr : \\n | grep ~/bin user@host:~$ reset-panel This just creates a shell script in your own, personal bin directory with one-liner shell script that sens the SIGHUP signal to the gnome- panel process. The second-to-the-last line just verifies that your personal bin directory is in your $PATH variable by printing it if it is (and doing nothing otherwise). The last line just runs it. If it works, any gnome-panels will briefly disappear (your screen will "flash") and it should immediately come back w/o this weird artifact. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/798842 Title: logout user menu obscured by empathy (chat) menu To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-panel/+bug/798842/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs