Comment 11 for bug 9863

(In reply to comment #10)
> have you added gnome-panel in your startup scripts somewhere ? There is no
> reason to get a software starting automatically on its own if it's not registred
> in the session or in a startup script
good catch! It turns out I had an old .xsession laying about that was only
running 'exec gnome-session'. I have been unable
to duplicate this bug since I moved .xsession to .xsession~.