I have found a way to reliably recreate this bug (or the same result)
Every time I start the editor geany (ppa:geany-dev/ppa) gnome-panel applets immediately stop updating. They come to life again if I resize the panel. I guess that geany does something that other processes do - whatever that is. I made an strace but I don't know what I would be looking for. lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS Release: 10.04 apt-cache policy packagename gnome-panel gnome-panel: Installed: 1:2.30.2-0ubuntu0.2 Candidate: 1:2.30.2-0ubuntu0.2 uname -mrsv Linux 2.6.32-30-generic #59-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 1 21:30:46 UTC 2011 x86_64 -- 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/740218 Title: gnome-applet clock time freezes -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
