Comment 4 for bug 1004870

I am also having this issue.

I'm running Xubuntu 12.10 (fully updated as of 2012-11-30) with xfce4-indicator-plugin 0.5.0-1ubuntu2.

The primary affected indicator is indicator-multiload (I'm running 0.3-0+66~34~17~quantal1). This is a variable width indicator that shows graphs of CPU usage, network traffic, load, etc. The width of these graphs in pixels is controlled by user preference, as well as which graphs to show. This can result in a very wide indicator if many graphs are turned on.

The issue appears to be that xfce4-indicator-plugin is taking the image output by indicator-multiload and explicitly scalling it down so that it fits in a space that is about as wide as a single "standard" menu indicator. This ends up being useless because lots of graphs end up being much wider than tall, so the scalled down version is just looks like a horizontal line of pixels.