Came on to post this bug as well, it was almost impossible to coax the panel back out again, finally got a response with ALT + F1 since the menu was on the panel. Didn't test w/o compiz.
-- gnome-panel will not return from auto-hide with compiz https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/421254 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 [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
