Sorry, I forgot to mention this... FWIW I don't think there's a problem with Gnome-Panel. I think it's managed by the window manager, so if metacity or compiz runs Gnome-Panel is active. If the icons are not locked to the panel, they may move when Gnome-Panel is restored by the window manager. But the source of the symptoms is the window manager.
Also, the symptoms I described started the second day of operation after shutting down. The first day after the upgrade everything appeared to function normally. Oh! There were a few additional updates after that. I don't know what they were, or how to track them down, but I wonder if a recent Ubuntu update is responsible? -- gnome-panel and window manager do not start on login https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/424511 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-session in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
