Comment 13 for bug 761409

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DJ (ke7mbz) wrote : Re: Cannot click on left-most indicator on panel if a non-indicator icon appears

I'm having the same issue.

Natty Narwhal
Acer AS1410
Everything's up to date on my system.

It only occurs if there's a non-system applet on the left end of the tray. The indicator to the right of it is unresponsive to right or left click. Sometimes the next indicator to the right is semi-unresponsive, except on it's far right side. Also, sometimes all the indicators except for the power/logout menu become unresponsive. I can work around it by clicking a menu on the right and then hovering left or using the arrow key. The non-system applets have no affect on each other. It seems like it may get worse after a few suspend/resumes, but not sure.

I've heard the plan is to eliminate the systray, but there's many very frequently used apps that don't work right without it, eg, Skype and Truecrypt. I hope they choose to fix it instead. I've set the whitelist to 'all' because it's not that bad in Linux, like Windows where every program wants to put something there. What's needed is a simple GUI where you can see the list of apps that want to use the systray and choose which ones to allow. Overall, though I thing NN is a step in the right direction.