Comment 340 for bug 439448

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Kyle Clarke (kyleclarke) wrote :

Mahendra Tallur wrote: "One more thing that I find interesting :

- earlier I said I could trigger some corruption in the bottom panel, near the "show desktop applet", by invoking "killall gnome-panel" a couple of times : this is true
- HOWEVER, I moved the applets and put them back EXACTLY the way they were before and noticed the corruption didn't happen anymore when calling "killall gnome-panel".
- I thought "wtf ?" so I started a guest session. The panel looks exactly the same. And now, calling "killall gnome-panel" does indeed trigger the very same corruption in more than 50% of the cases.

But what can be the differences between 2 bottom panels that contain exactly the same applets at the same location, one of"

@Mahendra Tallur: Did you lock the applets when you created your own panels?By default these are locked on the stock panels, but are not when you add your own applets. For a while now I feel that this has something to do with the timing in which the panels is drawn, and then the applets. Locking them may have an effect.