Problem with gnome-panel startup if solid colour

[Coffeecat]

Binary package hint: gnome-panel

Gutsy-Beta. Same issue found on two different machines.

On start-up, immediately after logging in, with default desktop setup, both the upper and lower gnome panels work fine. But if I change them to Properties > Background > Solid colour (and with the slider bar about one-third the way along, that is nearer the transparent end), both panels appear briefly, but as the desktop loads up only the upper one appears properly. If I wait until the desktop has completely loaded, and then click anywhere on the desktop, the lower panel immediately appears and works as it should. If I set the panels back to Properties > Background > None, the lower one starts up properly and works OK.

Only a minor bug, but slightly worrying. I've not seen this in Gnome before, but until I installed Gutsy Beta I had not used the 2.20 version. Could this be an upstream bug?

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for your report. are you using compiz (Visual Effects)? it looks like a dup

[Coffeecat (coffeecat)]

Thanks for your response. My apologies - I didn't think of compiz and you are quite right. On both the desktop (Nvidia GeForce 6200) and the laptop (Intel 915G) I had Visual Effects set to 'Normal' - the default, which is why I forgot about it. Setting them to 'None' on both machines causes the problem to go away.

One curiosity - with compiz enabled, now I get the problem whether the panel is set to 'Solid Colour' or 'None'. I don't know why it behaved differently before I posted the bug. Anyway, if this is a duplicate you might as well close this one. And apologies once again for making an unnecessary report.

By the way, Gutsy is looking good. Congratulations to all the devs.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for your quick response, that bug was already reported, feel free to report any other one you might find, thanks and we appreciate your help!