applet width cropped, shutdown button invisible

[agoraf]

From time to time, the applet is cropped in width so that shutdown button is not visible and the username is not visible entirely. I have not noticed any special action that causes this to happen. It repeatedly happened on both of my computers - desktop with Ubuntu 10.04 and laptop with Ubuntu 10.10. I can include the screenshot.

[Andrew (andrew-andtow)]

I have the same problem - its on boot up - there is no shut down button showing.
If I go into 'panel properties' and turn on and off 'show hide buttons' it reappears.
But when I next boot up it will be cropped again.
I have a fresh install of 10.10

[Armin Stebich (lordofbikes)]

I had the same problem on a fresh German Ubuntu 10.10 installation. As described above, toggling the 'show hide buttons' solved the problem for the active session. The problem appeared direct after boot up.
I found some hints to reinstall the indicator-applet-session package. I did so, in the synaptic package manager I marked it for reinstallation and applied it, and the problem didn't appeare now for two days.

[Andrew (andrew-andtow)]

Thanks I will try that!

Andrew

On 7 November 2010 10:51, Armin Stebich <email address hidden> wrote:

> I had the same problem on a fresh German Ubuntu 10.10 installation. As
> described above, toggling the 'show hide buttons' solved the problem for the
> active session. The problem appeared direct after boot up.
> I found some hints to reinstall the indicator-applet-session package. I did
> so, in the synaptic package manager I marked it for reinstallation and
> applied it, and the problem didn't appeare now for two days.
>
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> applet width cropped, shutdown button invisible
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/671423
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[cbthompson (cbthompson)]

This has been affecting me for some time, too. I've found that you can work around this by writing a script that sleeps for a few seconds, then runs 'killall gnome-panel' and put that into your statup applications. I'd like to see it fixed properly, though.

[Sébastien DUMORTIER (sdumortier)]

Same problem on 10.04.1
It seems to be a random bug.

But on this computer, it happens with a restricted account which has no "System" menu to shutdown. So it's a little bit more fun...

Is there any patch ?

[agoraf (agorafobia)]

I added a "shutdown button" applet to the panel and removed the indicator applet. Sad, but it is the only way how to turn off the PC by GUI :).