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Unity launcher icons are all placed overlapping at same vertical position, making launcher bar unusable

Bug #854045 reported by Brion Vibber on 2011-09-19

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #806248: unity::TimeUtil::TimeDelta returns an int value which overflows after 24 days of uptime. Edit Remove

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Unity	New	Undecided	Unassigned
	unity (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Never saw this until today; running 11.04 for a few months. Keeps happening after manual restart of unity via 'unity --replace' in a terminal, and after restarting the entire X session by killing Xorg and logging back in.

Screenshot of the launcher toolbar attached.

This is a dual-monitor configuration (2x 1920x1080 monitors on DisplayPort, using proprietary NVidia drivers). Have never had any problem with Unity on this setup before; as recently as Thursday when I was last in the office using this computer the launcher icons laid out just fine across the height of the screen.

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Brion Vibber (brion) wrote on 2011-09-19:

Screenshot of launcher along the left edge of screen. Note that all icons have been smushed together at the top of the screen, and are only half visible. Edit (5.7 KiB, image/png)

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Brion Vibber (brion) wrote on 2011-09-19:

Sigh... though this problem persisted across about 8 restarts of unity including a complete destruction of the login session and logging back in, it did not persist across a reboot of the system.

Yay for incomprehensible irreproducible problems! :P

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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote on 2011-12-08:

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 806248, so is being marked as such. Any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2012-03-24:

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.