I have a Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop with Intel GM45 graphics and am using
Lucid i386, on which the icons in my notification area sometimes come up
as overlapped duplicates, sometimes as broken images and sometimes not
at all (missing icons). In my case this is random and logging out and
then
Sorry for my statement about adding a screenshot - didn't see Chris's
message, but it's difficult when there are so many messages. At least
there should be an easy and direct way to edit one's own comments.
Saurav
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Several users seem to be experiencing difficulties shutting down,
rebooting or logging out in the absence of the panel icon's
functionality. The following methods may help: -
If you want the functions for logging out, shutting down, etc., back in
the System menu, right-click the power-button or
I am affected by this bug as well. On my Computer it happens randomly.
That means, even if the applets load well at the beginning, after a
while and sporadically a second battery indicator applet appears. I have
this problem only with this applet, never had another one doubled. Also
it is in two
I forgot to mention that I use latest Lucid with all updates and it was
a fresh install. Also the expand-option in the panel doesn't solve the
problem.
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Experienced it again today, this time the wireless-network icon was gone
and instead I had a dupe of the edge of the notification area (that
vertical bar). This time I just tried to reload the gnome-panel (without
logging out) by issuing the command 'killall gnome-panel'. This killed
and reloaded
@rupert and Christian: Sorry guys, but what do you mean it can
effectively lock an inexperienced user in to their system with no way of
exiting? All one has to do is press CTRL-ALT-DEL and the shutdown
window will pop up. if Ubuntu is also aimed at the average non-techie
user coming from Windows
try telling my father that he has to do CTRL+ALT+DELETE in order to shut
down his computer. I'm sure he's going to take out the power line and wait
until the battery drop all his charge, if it happens to him.
seriously Rex, a non-techie user can't know the CTRL-ALT-DEL combination.
not all ubuntu
@ralemi: it can have a number of effects as it can disable any indicator in the
top panel. In no particular order, I've occasionally been unable to:
- connect to a wireless network (no wireless indicator and no alternative way
to do this)
- open Evolution, Gwibber or Empathy via the indicator
I'm sorry, but this is exactly the mentality
that distinguishes the professionalism of Microsoft/Apple and the ghettoness
open source software. The fact is, it's 2010, and the leading
Linux distribution can't even get a working shutdown button, and in fact
developers such as yourself are making
Just to clear things up, you can open any of the programs in the applet
from the applications menu (forgetting does not mean the functionality
is not there), even rhythmbox regardless of if it minimizes to the tray
(if you call on it from the apps menu it will come to focus).
But the real reason
The solution I described in #64 doesn't work. I had the issue again on
my last boot. Now my logout button is gone (it's now a dupe of the
clock). Looks like I'm back to old-school 'shutdown -h now' (I swore
never to use Ctrl-Alt-Del ever again in my life). This is just plain
ridiculous. I agree
Today the shut-down button became unusable because of this problem - this makes
it really hard for
inexperienced users to shut down their computers.
This smells like a major usability problem and should be taken serious.
I believe that at least the following could/should be done, as long as
Exactly the point many bug reporters have been making. Although this
doesn't cause a serious crash, it can effectively lock an inexperienced
user in to their system with no way of exiting. Sadly, this issue
highlights a major flaw in the Ubuntu bug reporting process, in that the
importance of an
This bug has not appeared for some time now, but today it reappeared.
I also noticed that this time the battery applet was loaded into the indicator
applet. Most of the times the battery applet does not work for me (probably
caused by this this bug:
For what it is worth: this bug doesn't only appear in Ubuntu Lucid but
also in my Debian Squeeze (Testing) installation.
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Actually, on further investigation, the solution from post 64 does not
always fix the issues. Check the two attached screenshots. This is
before and after enabling / disabling Expand. It fails to sort out the
repeated T over the Wireless Applet. Also know the jumbled up
placement of the
2nd screenshot.
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This is the worst I have seen it on my laptop. This occurred trying the
fix in comment 64. see attached
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just to state that this bug is still classified as low importance.
see the last screenshot: we have lot of users that see a mess on their
panels, it should at least gain some importance.
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 3:17 PM, underdog512 amobley1...@gmail.com
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This is the worst I have seen it
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I'm using karmic x86_64, updated as of 2009-09-30.
It's very hard to describe the bug, so a screen shot is attached.
As seen on the screen shot, after start up the notification area gets
scrambled, it shows, in case of
Check comments 49, 56, 62 - it seems the guys in charge don't like being
told what to do. They have deemed this of low importance, so the users
have to view it as such, apparently (regardless of the fact that if this
bug affects you, you can't log out / shutdown / restart unless you know
what you
Well, those comments you referred too don't appear to be from people in
charge.
Changing the importance of the bug isn't going to affect how quickly it
is fixed. We know the bug is there, and we know it is annoying for
users. We just don't know what is causing it yet though.
We don't need any
Same problem here in Ubuntu 10.04 (and also in Debian Squeeze !)
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ten days ago I've tried what is suggested on comment #64.
so far, the issue didn't come out: I start thinking that it does work.
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I agree with Alex. That solution from #64 fixes it, so it is clearly
something wrong with the way icons are being added to and drawn on the
panel during boot. I am wondering if it occurs in a vanilla Ubuntu
install, or only if another program has been installed that puts an icon
in the panel. If
Happened to me today after clean install. And after adding one app to
panel, whole X system became unresponsive so I had re reset computer.
After that, I had to logon/logout several times to get those icons the
way they suppose to be.
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Same here, on Lucid Desktop 64 bit with Nvidia GeForce 9300 M on 195.36
driver version. funny thing is that it only happens to me when the
computer wakes from hibernate or sleep, not in restart.
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This occurs ~40% of the time after logging into my desktop. I'm running
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, 32-bit, I'm using Compiz and using the open source ATI
drivers.
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I am having the same issue with the Me Menu drawing over the shutdown
menu, rendering it inaccessible. Screenshot attached.
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Today I've realized something that has certainly something in common
with this bug. When I start qtorrent, which uses an own notification
area icon, what appears first is a fake of the icon that is located to
the right or left of the qtorrent icon, only after a couple of seconds
it changes to the
This bug has been randomly affecting my notification area since I did a
fresh Lucid install. The problem seems to be that gnome draws a part of
the MeMenu on top of the shutdown icon (as illustrated in the attachment
bug.png).
Redrawing the panel (as described in comment #15) solves the problem.
Hi Chad, reading the bug notes I can't understand why the bug is
invalid. Can you please explain?
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It's only invalid for compiz, which is true, but me I don't understand why
is the importance low?
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Check comments 61 and 62, they only like people to post informative
stuff and fixes, no chit chat :( I guess that is what the Ubuntu forums
are for
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I have the same problem intermittently.. Sound icon doubled and shutdown
icon missing (see attachment)..
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Architecture: amd64
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This bug affects me in Lucid. I think clasifying it of low importance is
a serious mistake. When it happens to me, often the logout button often
disappears. To a new user, they would then have no way of logging out or
shutting down (since they are unlikely to know about sudo shutdown -hP
or about
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I upgraded to Lucid (fresh install), and this bug keeps affecting me. I
agree with the previous poster, it's not a low priority bug.
To switch off, I had to put my finger over the power on button and select
the right choice from the pop up menu.
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 2:57 PM, rupert
those comments discussing bug settings are not really useful there, the
issue is a known to be an annoying one
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That's what I meant before: only information intended to solve the bug
is useful. Keep it simple, please.
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Fair enough. Any suggestions as to how we can help track this bug down
and solve it? Since no app is apparently crashing, logs don't seem
relevant. Maybe a dummy app that puts an icon in the panel and then
somehow monitors that icon? Just wanna help out, as I know screenshots
and whining on the
OK, weird, I haven't had this problem for a couple of days now. The
thing I did was to right click the panel, select 'properties', and then
disable 'expand', wait till the panel resizes and then enable 'expand'.
Can somebody try that please, so we can see whether that fixes the issue
in other
consider me in. I've just tried, I'll let you know.
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 6:42 PM, DGMcCloud duncan.do...@gmail.com
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OK, weird, I haven't had this problem for a couple of days now. The
thing I did was to right click the panel, select 'properties', and then
disable 'expand', wait till
Same problem here after the upgrade from Karmic to Lucid. Sometimes I
have 2 sound icons where one of the icons should have been nm-applet.
Sometimes the area where the nm-applet icon should have been is empty,
but the notification area is still sized as if there is an icon and if
you aim
These kinds of bugs, how small they appear to be to an experienced
user, are not helping Ubuntu becoming the Linux for Human Beings that it
wants to be.
Sorry, but this isn't a forum. It's a bug tracker.
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Sorry, but this isn't a forum. It's a bug tracker.
Excuse me? I just took the time to do some testing on this issue
(changing configurations of applets, rearranging them, rebooting a
couple of times, rearranging them again, etc.) to see if I could easily
reproduce the issue. I then took the time
I must say I sympathize with the previous comment.
Having said that, this is still happening. on various systems of mine,
with different display drivers: I don't think it's a display driver
issue.
Some have noted that this happens or persists after a system upgrade
where the home directory is
I use 3 machines. One with ATI graphics, one with nVidia and a laptop
with Intel. It happens on all systems and I *never* preserve home
directory. I installed Lucid since beta came out and it was fresh
install several times. This issue is still present. Just now I'm
watching double BT icons,
Oh, forgot to mention. It also happens on i386 and amd64 Ubuntu. So it's not
graphic driver, it's not architecture but must be something with gnome-panel.
Can desktop-effects interfere with panel?
The first time I've noticed this was on Karmic since November I think.
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DGMcCloud is completely right. Ubuntu is a perfect os, but it has these
small problems, that scare new users and they go back to the good
old Windows. This issue is far more important than it seems.
However I see 2 comfortable ways how to handle it, until it's solved:
1. remove tho notification
However, I forgot to mention, that I haven't experienced this for a
longer time now, as I have switched to 10.04, I haven't experienced it
so far. Even the order of the icons in notification area seems stable,
and playing games in fullscreen thru wine won't mess them up either, so
there has been
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