Public bug reported:
My xfce4 panel woke up like this: seven icons disappeared off the right-
hand side of the screen.
These were, counting in from the right: user menu, Tor icon, update
icon, notes, network, time and one from the bunch of workspace icons I
have up there.
I found that I could get the icons back if I changed the panel settings
to vertical. The icons are all there. When displayed horizontal across
the top of the screen, a space about the size of the icons that were
lost off the side has appeared on the panel, between those on the left
and those on the right. I know the icons are still there not only
because I can see them if I switch them to vertical, but also because I
can just see the edge of the last workspace icon off the edge,
especially if I move to that workspace.
Two notable factors: i) my screen is oriented portrait; and ii) one more
notification icon appeared than usual, possibly on startup (I can't be
sure because it appeared off screen), possibly creating the pile up.
i) Interesting to note in respect of this that when vertical, the panel
only reaches down my portrait screen as far as it would have to reach to
reach from left edge to right edge when horizontal. That is, it's about
30cm long, no matter if horizontral or vertical. 30cm is enough to reach
edge to edge when its vertical. But to reach top to bottom when
vertical, it would need to be about 38cm. The difference of about 8cm
(about 7.7cm to be more precise) is the same length as the amount of
icons that have disappeared off the right edge when the panel is
horizontal. These icons display perfectly well when the panel is
vertical. It is just the panel itself runs out before it reaches the
bottom.
Also of note: on either opening the panel properties or changing the
faulty top, panel 1, to a vertical orientation, panel 2 appeared in a
wonky place. It appeared at the 30cm point down the screen: the point at
which would have been the bottom of the screen if it's orientation was
landscape, and now the point which marks the farthest my vertically
oriented panel 1 will reach. If I changed panel 1 back to a horizontal
oritentation, panel 2 stuck firmly to its wonky spot. The only way to
get panel 2 to behave is to remove it altogether. I can't actually
remember if in normal circumstances before this morning I had panel 2
displayed at all. Funny that. I think not. But maybe it was. I do
however remember my computer not being entirely comfortable with the
portrait setting and have a vague recollection of panel 2 sitting like
this before, and my perhaps removing it altogether then. I have however
been using portrait well enough for quite a while.
ii) I recall panel 1 going awol like this before when I tried to stuff
it with too many icons. I think cutting it back and a reset might have
solved the problem. The problem then and now was unexpected notification
icons pushing the panel over the edge. This time it was a second Tor
icon that had not appeared before telling me of some problem that had
not occured before, coming in conjunction with the update notifier. I'll
delete some unwanted launcher icons, reset and see what happens.
So three appear to be two problems, perhaps related: the way the panels
deals with portrait orientation and icon overloading.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: xfce4-panel 4.10.0-1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-29.42-generic 3.8.13.5
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-29-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Sep 7 14:03:23 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-11-28 (282 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.1)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: xfce4-panel
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-05-14 (115 days ago)
** Affects: xfce4-panel (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug raring
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