Oops, there was an update this morning. Applied the update and booted as requested. And bingo: chrome sits under the gnome-panels as visible in the attached screenshot.
** Attachment added: "Screenshot.png" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/49592646/Screenshot.png -- gnome-panel hides sides of application window https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/581080 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-panel in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs