icons show up twice in tray panel

[Ashfame]

It happened by itself, not after a particular update or boot. First it happened for a single icon but then for all. I did a reboot to see if the ATI drivers might be misbehaving but its still there after the reboot. If I click on a icon, its ghost counterpart disappears as long as the dropdown is displayed.

I have been asked to report it as a bug - http://askubuntu.com/questions/51784/unity-tray-panel-shows-icon-as-split-into-two

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: unity 3.8.16-0ubuntu1~natty1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,decor,move,imgjpeg,imgsvg,place,grid,regex,annotate,vpswitch,animation,imgpng,mousepoll,compiztoolbox,gnomecompat,workarounds,staticswitcher,text,resize,session,unitymtgrabhandles,ring,wall,wobbly,scale,expo,unityshell]
CompositorRunning: compiz
Date: Tue Jul 5 02:08:02 2011
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: natty
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus: fglrx, 8.840, 2.6.38-8-generic, x86_64: installed
GraphicsCard:
 ATI Technologies Inc RV770 [Radeon HD 4850] [1002:9442] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Device [1002:0502]
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
InstallationMedia_: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
InstallationMedia__: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
JockeyStatus: xorg:fglrx - ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver (Proprietary, Enabled, In use)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic root=UUID=6c158778-6562-40f5-9f4f-1d49d9d68b13 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
ProcVersionSignature_: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
ProcVersionSignature__: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Renderer: Unknown
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 05/10/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: Intel Corp.
dmi.bios.version: MQ96510J.86A.1687.2007.0510.0258
dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag
dmi.board.name: DG965RY
dmi.board.vendor: Intel Corporation
dmi.board.version: AAD41691-301
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnIntelCorp.:bvrMQ96510J.86A.1687.2007.0510.0258:bd05/10/2007:svn:pn:pvr:rvnIntelCorporation:rnDG965RY:rvrAAD41691-301:cvn:ct3:cvr:
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.4+bzr20110606-0ubuntu1~natty1
version.fglrx-installer: fglrx-installer N/A
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs 20090808ubuntu13
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.23-1ubuntu6
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 7.10.2-0ubuntu2
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.10.2-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6+4ubuntu3.1
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.0-0ubuntu4
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.14.0-4ubuntu7.1
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110107+b795ca6e-0ubuntu7

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

do you have systray enabled? please run the command below, logout and login again and see if the problem happens for you still

$ set com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist "['JavaEmbeddedFrame', 'Mumble', 'Wine', 'Skype', 'hp-systray']"

[Ashfame (ashfame)]

Yes! I had systray enabled at that time. The problem got fixed by itself when I did something which caused it to refresh everything. Can't recall properly but it has something to do with theme setup. Not a simple theme change, but reselecting/refreshing the default theme in some sense, I am not sure. Sorry!

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

issue went away automatically, closing.