gnome-panel's "autohide" moves it off-screen rather than hiding

[Robin Sheat]

If you autohide a panel, it doesn't really shrink it, it just slides it downwards so that it is off the bottom of the screen. This means that if you have dual monitors in a one-above-the-other configuration, and the screen at the top has the panels, then the 'hidden' panel is visible at the top of the bottom screen.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug. What version of Ubuntu do you use? Could you give details on how you configured your dual screen? Do you have the desktop effect option activated?

[Robin Sheat (eythian)]

This is gutsy. The dual screen is using nvidia's twinview, and I do have desktop effects enabled.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Does it happen without the desktop effects option?

[Robin Sheat (eythian)]

Yes, it occurs with desktop effects disabled also (i.e. using metacity)

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Hardy Heron. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

[Robin Sheat (eythian)]

This still occurs with Hardy.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could you open the bug on bugzilla.gnome.org since you have a configuration where you can trigger the issue?

[Robin Sheat (eythian)]

Done: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=535232

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for sending it upstream, adding a bug watch on the bugzilla task now

[Philipp Gassmann (phiphi.g)]

still a problem with jaunty, also occurs when you manually hide a panel with the hide-buttons.

Picture of that (together with other issues of dual-screen setup):
http://ubuntu-pics.de/bild/12656/dual_screen_issues_cut_sbSudY.png

[Christian Stöveken (excogitation)]

Same behaviour on Karmic.

[Christian Stöveken (excogitation)]

same behavior on Lucid