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Help! I'm experiencing a major UI problem that's making my work in
Ubuntu very difficult. I've recently upgraded to Ubuntu Feisty 7.04.
Initially, the top and bottom panels worked properly. But today, I'm
getting these strange and very annoying behaviors:
1. Top panel disappears when launching any application. It's not auto-
hiding -- there is no way to bring it back by hovering the mouse pointer
at the very top of the screen. (Even setting it to auto-hide does not
fix the problem -- once an application launches, the top panel is gone,
and again, no mouse action can bring it back.) The only solution is to
close all open applications.
2. Bottom panel either vanishes, or it is displayed, but in any event,
it does not show the names of the running applications any longer.
3. View Desktop button on the bottom panel produces an error message,
claiming that this feature is not enabled.
4. Switch Workplaces applet is not displayed on the bottom panel at all.
5. There are no more frames around the applications that are running. I
cannot maximize, minimize, move them or change their sizes in any way.
:-(
Notes:
During the upgrade to Feisty, the system had shut itself off (probably
because I had set it to automatically shut down after 1 hour of
inactivity -- I had not expected the system to think that an upgrade in
progress = "inactivity"). :-(
After turning the computer back on, I re-started the updater application
manually, and it seemed to complete the update OK.
After the upgrade, Feisty immediately recommended downloading and
installing a closed-source video driver, which I let it do (I would look
up the exact video driver, but I cannot switch away from Firefox due to
the problems above).
The panels then worked OK for a while, but then they just stopped
working properly today.
Disabling automatic saving of session information on exit does not help.
The above problems persist after rebooting.
Switching the Theme back to Human (default) also does not solve the
problem.
Thanks in advance for your help.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Apr 24 16:22:19 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-panel
Package: gnome-panel 1:2.18.1-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: gnome-panel --sm-config-prefix /gnome-panel-prd81m/ --sm-client-id
117f000101000117728899600000054740000 --screen 0
ProcCwd: /home/dan
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-panel
Uname: Linux U-desktop 2.6.20-15-generic #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 07:36:31 UTC 2007
i686 GNU/Linux
** Affects: gnome-panel (Ubuntu)
Importance: Low
Status: Unconfirmed
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Top and Bottom Screen Panels Stopped Working Properly in Ubuntu Feisty
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/109760
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