same issue for me, the only stable solution that I've found to get working panels through different login was to remove compiz.
So, I run sudo aptitude remove compiz compiz-core After that, panel works fine. Furthermore, if you want to really use compiz on this hardware you can reinstall it and from now on everything it's ok. PS: I've not run a dpkg-reconfigure on compiz packages, possibly it should be enough. -- Panel utilities not shown on startup using Matrox gfx https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/572550 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-panel in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs