Gnome panels freeze with advanced effects on

[Mario]

This is something I regularly encounter on three different machines. Two of them are running two different version of Ubuntu (8.04 and 9.04) while the third one is running OpenSuse 10.1. So guess it's a general Gnome issue, but you've asked for the most annoying problems so here it is.

On each of the three machines, I use two panels: one on the left side of the screen and on on the bottom. My bottom panel is configured as variable-width (no expand) and contains the window list, clock, and a couple of small icons. It all works fine until Compiz effects are on. When I do that, the clock and the window list (and I guess everything else on the panel) will occasionally freeze. I can unfreeze them by switching to a different virtual desktop and back, or by launching a new window and closing it again.

[Lightbreeze (nedhoy-gmail)]

Do you get this bug running a default panel setup?

[Mario (mblazevic)]

Lightbreeze wrote:
> Do you get this bug running a default panel setup?
>

I'll let you know the next time I install Gnome from scratch ;).

What I can tell you is that I've been running with my bottom pannel
expanded for the whole day know without hitting the glitch.

[Vish (vish)]

Thank you for bringing this bug to our attention. Unfortunately a paper cut should be a small usability issue that affects many people and is quick and easy to fix. I'm afraid this bug can't be addressed as part of this project.

What youa re facing seems to be a bug ,Not a papercut.
A paper cut is a minor usability annoyance that an average user would encounter on his/her first day of using a new installation of Ubuntu 9.10.

For further info about papercuts criteria , pls read > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PaperCut

Don't worry though, This bug has been marked as "invalid" ONLY in the papercuts project.