Comment 3 for bug 766103

I can consistently reproduce.

The 'use_strut' option determines whether the launcher is going to reserve its space on the left edge of the monitor so that the window manager knows it should position other windows in this space. In fact it should only be set to true when 'hide_mode' == 0 (never hide). I suppose that the two options could be merged (i.e. we could get rid of 'use_strut' and set the struts only when 'hide_mode' == 0).

@Aurélien: do you have additional insight on the issue? Why do we have the 'use_strut' option in the first place?