I can confirm this only happens when there is a second monitor. I detached the external monitor.
I rebooted. Panel behaved as expected. I attached the external monitor. Panel appeared without prompting and stayed there. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-panel in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/715196 Title: Panel won't auto-hide when not set to expanded -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs