Comment 95 for bug 439448

I have a Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop with Intel GM45 graphics and am using Lucid i386, on which the icons in my notification area sometimes come up as overlapped duplicates, sometimes as broken images and sometimes not at all (missing icons). In my case this is random and logging out and then logging in again usually corrects the problem for the time being. I will attach a screenshot the next time I experience this issue. Bug #569996 too seems to be caused by this one, although it is marked as affecting gnome-power-manager as of this writing. Bug #584351 also seems to be a duplicate.

I did not experience this problem in any previous version of Ubuntu and neither on any other distribution so I did not know that this is such a long-standing issue. It is not just a visual annoyance. It causes delays when you need to access the icons' functionality and thus is a major problem when time is at a premium. It needs to be corrected immediately.

Saurav