Comment 7 for bug 550019

I have a very similar problem.

It's actually a little bit worse, since the non-clickable area is extending for another ~50% above awn.
(And so its covering the bottom part of virtual every application I run).

I'm pretty sure that is something new, since I'm using awn for more then a year now.

There is something I've noticed that might help to shade some light on the issue,
I'm using compiz and have the "Preview" option on - when I'm hovering with the mouse above the icons I a thumbnail of the running application appears.
Clicking in the non-clickable area above the awn icons does nothing, but hovering activating the Preview feature of the "right" application...