Panel no longer changes window struts when resized

[Dylan McCall]

Binary package hint: gnome-panel

With previous releases of gnome-panel, changing the size of a panel would have it immediately update window struts. In this way, normal windows when maximized would meet at the edge of the panel and windows would avoid moving above the panel.

However, with the panel as packaged in Jaunty, the struts are only set when the panel is first loaded. If I change the size of a panel via the panel's properties, it simply overlaps existing windows or leaves an unused gap on the desktop.

[Craig Huffstetler (xq)]

I can confirm this bug in Jaunty current.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug report, do you use the desktop effects option?

[Craig Huffstetler (xq)]

I use Compiz. This seems to be causing the issue.

[Dylan McCall (dylanmccall)]

Compiz is not responsible for the issue; I use Metacity with compositing. Granted, it may be a strange thing related to compositing being present, but that lands the issue back at gnome-panel.

[Dylan McCall (dylanmccall)]

Oops, I guess I could have just...
Err, confirmed without compositing :P

[Craig Huffstetler (xq)]

I turned off Compiz and ran only Gnome as my window manager. The issue is still present. I guess we're back at square one.

[A. Cooper (aandacooper)]

Running Jaunty in basic format, no other programs running except Firefox, still happening.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

it looks like bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=572573 which is now fixed on trunk.

[Ori Avtalion (salty-horse)]

The root problem causes a few other issues, e.g. https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/metacity/+bug/332624

In that bug I even attached a patch against the current debian package, so it's only a matter of a maintainer picking it up :)

[Ori Avtalion (salty-horse)]

Not a compiz bug.