Comment 18 for bug 231347

ok.. to sum up at this point. I think the most relevant points are.

1) Happening on metacity on Fedora 9 and Ubuntu Hardy. Disregard my implication at one point that his was a Fedora 9 issue... I was dealing with a Fedora only (seemingly) but at the same time :-) So seemingly an issue with the new metacity with the new compositor. However, I am unable to reproduce on Gentoo with metacity 2.23.8

2) For some people it might be related to having previously run compiz. A new user account does not exhibit the issue if compiz has not been used. We seem to have a least one case of the bug appearing without this though.

3) If awn is started under a different WM (such as compiz) then the bar is stick as expected and switching to metacity without closing awn leaves awn on all desktops. However if awn is started after metacity then the issue appears.

4) Even though the awn code is calling gtk_window_stick() that state is not showing in 'xprop -name avant-window-navigator' This is definitely the problem.