I've seen this happening with some themes, but this is no more the case since gnome 2.14.
I suppose this bug is fixed then. Feel free to reopen it if you are still able to reproduce it in Breezy and tell us what theme you are using. ** Changed in: gnome-panel (Ubuntu) Status: Needs Info => Fix Released ** Bug 30917 has been marked a duplicate of this bug -- gnome-panels placed dont go well with transparency option.. https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/21442 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs