Comment 37 for bug 44082

I can confirm this bug as well, but I don't think it is an Ubuntu issue. I have experienced the same things described by Tom on both Ubuntu 8.04 (upgraded from 7.10) and on Gentoo running GNOME 2.22.3. I have numerous applets and launchers on the top right of my screen that switch places, as well as a few on the bottom right. The thing on the top and bottom left never move. The things that switch places only do so about half the time, and once after I logged on and off about ten times, they went back to where they belonged.

My setup is a 17in laptop screen running at 1680x1050 at 96dpi using the 'nvidia' driver. On both Ubuntu and Gentoo all the items on the panel were locked, and panels were expanded.