Comment 10 for bug 515253

I just tried reproducing the problem per your instructions and get the correct behavior. Are you absolutely sure that Panflute is running the version of panflute-daemon from the bzr repo and not the one from the 0.6.1 release? (To check, run "dbus-send --session --print-reply --dest=org.mpris.panflute / org.freedesktop.MediaPlayer.Identity" from the command line while Panflute is running; the message should say "Panflute trunk" and not "Panflute 0.6.1".) One thing to try, especially if Panflute-from-bzr is not installed in your usual $PATH, is to run it explicitly before adding the applet to the panel.

If you've confirmed you're running Panflute from trunk and *still* experience the bug, please kill all panflute processes, run panflute-daemon -d from the command line, trigger the bug, and post the spew of debugging output that panflute-daemon generates.