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Bug 312182 - Applets and menus rearranged randomly...
Applets and menus rearranged randomly...
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-panel
Classification: Other
Component: panel
2.10.x
Other Linux
: Normal minor
: ---
Assigned To: Panel Maintainers
Panel Maintainers
: 173029 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-08-01 03:34 UTC by Nathan Rutan
Modified: 2020-11-06 20:24 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.9/2.10


Description Nathan Rutan 2005-08-01 03:34:55 UTC 
Right-click on the panel and choose "properties".  Under the "General" tab
UNCHECK the box that says "Expand".  This allows the panel to shrink down to
just enough space to accomadate the applets and menus.  Now, log off and log
back on.  The menus and applets are mixed around.  The clock applet will be
where the "Applications" menu was and the menu will be somewhere in the middle.
 The application launch icons will be mixed around as well.  To workaround do a
right-click on each panel item and UNCHECK the "lock to panel" option.  Once ALL
items are not locked, right-click and choose the "move" option to move the items
back to original positions.
Comment 1 Dennis Krul (dweazle) 2005-08-18 16:55:31 UTC 
I can reproduce this bug.

After you log out and back in the order of the applets is changed, but only if
you unselect the 'expand' option in the panel properties.
Comment 2 Dennis Krul (dweazle) 2005-08-18 16:58:57 UTC 
*** Bug 173029 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Maxim Burgerhout 2007-08-14 07:38:35 UTC 
Actually, and I think this is related, if you play a game in a resolution different to your desktop and / or change the desktop resolution back and forth to something different, the effect is often much the same. 

I often experience exiting GuildWars or something and returning to a Gnome desktop with the panel re-ordered a bit. Very annoying.
Comment 4 Dmitry Korzhevin 2007-10-21 13:02:56 UTC 
I can confirm this bug on GNOME 2.20.1 distribution Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibon.
Comment 5 Oskar Wallgren 2009-07-19 15:00:41 UTC 
I can also confirm this bug on GNOME 2.26.1 / Ubuntu 9.04
Comment 6 André Klapper 2020-11-06 20:24:55 UTC 
bugzilla.gnome.org is being replaced by gitlab.gnome.org. We are closing all old bug reports in Bugzilla which have not seen updates for many years.

If you can still reproduce this issue in a currently supported version of GNOME (currently that would be 3.38), then please feel free to report it at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-panel/-/issues/

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