Icons randomly disappear from notification-area-applet

[Vitaly Zawullon Katraev]

Binary package hint: gnome-panel

See subj. Instead or between some icons I see empty space sometimes. Mouse click (left or right button) on this space also does nothing.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Feb 25 20:33:48 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha i386 (20100113)
Package: gnome-panel 1:2.29.91-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=ru_RU.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-14.20-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-panel
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-14-generic i686

[Vitaly Zawullon Katraev (zawullon)]

Upd: Empty space beetween icons appear after run applications without notification area icon support (browser, terminal, file manager, etc.). This happens also in AWN (avant window navigator) notification area, so, it`s not gnome-panel package bug, maybe. But in AWN notification area existing icons not disappear, it happens only in gnome notification-area-applet.

[Chris Giltnane (chris-giltnane)]

In my case its the power manager icon keeps appearing and disappearing about every 20 seconds or so. When it does appear its always way to left of the others icons with a empty space between them

[Jelle Foks (jellefoks)]

As workaround: If you follow System>Preferences>Power Management, you can set it to 'Never display an icon', then remove the notification area from the panel and re-add it. Then you won't have the icon, but at least the notification area will stay small and not have the large empty space. Until this bug is fixed...

[Vitaly Zawullon Katraev (zawullon)]

Thank you, Jelle Foks. Your workaround works for me. In my case not only power manager icon dissapear (if I remember this propertly, now I use AWN notification applet instead gnome-panel), but after disable gnome-power notifications issue was gone.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

you might want to use the indicator applet too