Comment 147 for bug 439448

@Teej: 1) It works for me. 2) It will not conflict with gdm because it runs after the user has logged in. 3) It will not result in extra panels (see point 6 below). 4) It has as yet always resulted in a panel that is "normal" and not yet in one that needs to be "taken back to normal." 5) The command can, of course, be replaced by killall gnome-panel or just pkill gnome-panel because the panel restarts automatically. I was experimenting with the && operator just to be on the safe side. 6) To test all of this, when you are logged in and the panels are all working correctly, open the terminal and try the commands pkill gnome-panel or killall gnome-panel, and gnome-panel & separately.

@Zbych: There does not seem to be any known "solution" to this problem yet, which is a pity. Every workaround is always "silly" from the point of view of correctness. That is why it is called a workaround.

Saurav