Comment 8 for bug 1049450

Nick (or some other helpful Xfce developer) fixed the Xfce panel autohide bug some months ago.

The quickest/easiest way I know of to remove that bug - along with several others, including the "desktop background fails to switch to a random one from the user's list of chosen backgrounds at N minutes (N selected by user) properly" - is to open a terminal window and type:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xubuntu-dev/xfce-4.10

followed by:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xubuntu-dev/xfce-4.12

This will add both repos to your sources list (along with their keys). Next, you will want to refresh the latest list of software for your system, by typing (again, in the terminal window):

sudo apt-get update

Now you can update your system as you normally would, either in the terminal or via your GUI update manager (in which case you could have skipped typing sudo apt-get update and simply have told your update manager to refresh its cache).

NOTES: These two PPAs are run by the Xubuntu developers, so should not have any malicious code in them. I have added them to numerous (approximately 25) computers ranging in age from a three-day old laptop and a two-month old desktop to laptops/desktops that are over eight years old - running Xubuntu, Mint Xfce, and Ultimate Edition (all are "Ubuntu derivatives" and can, therefore, use PPAs) in both 32- and 64-bit versions. Although 25 examples of success is a relatively small sampling, it was a rather good mix of hardware and I witnessed ZERO problems so, while as always I must add the disclaimer of "YMMV," I have every reason to believe that you will also have no trouble. These two repos are set up to work with distros based on Ubuntu's versions Precise, Quantal, and Raring (12.04LTS, 12.10, and 13.04).

QUESTION: With all due respect (not being one to make value-judgements, I will have to leave it to others to quantify this, lol), since this bug was fixed a long time ago (in "computer time" terms) by the Xfce developers, and the fix has been available both through PPAs and other "places" (including source code), and the fix has STILL not landed in the official mainstream update channel, shouldn't the status be changed, rightfully, from "Confirmed" to "Won't Fix?" It's not like the problem - or more to the point, the solution to the problem - is new. Or... Perhaps this bug needs a new status created just for it, "Already fixed... but not for the masses."

Hope this helps (I know it will)!