This can happen when you enable “Show weather” in preferences but the weather information failed loading for some reason. Can you try disabling showing the weather?
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-panel in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1737836 Title: Standard clock applet is oversized in Artful Status in gnome-panel package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: In Artful if the standard clock applet is used there is a dead-space to the left of it. In my first screenshot you can see the dead-space between the indicator-applet and the clock applet. In the second screenshot you can see I've moved the clock applet to the left and the same dead-space exists between it and the inhibit-applet. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10 Package: gnome-panel 1:3.24.1-1ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-19.22-generic 4.13.13 Uname: Linux 4.13.0-19-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.6 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: GNOME-Flashback:GNOME Date: Tue Dec 12 15:19:25 2017 GsettingsChanges: b'org.gnome.gnome-panel.layout' b'object-id-list' b"['window-list', 'workspace-switcher', 'clock', 'indicator-applet', 'inhibit-applet', 'menu-button', 'trash-applet', 'launcher', 'launcher-0', 'launcher-1']" b'org.gnome.gnome-panel.layout' b'toplevel-id-list' b"['bottom-panel']" InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-12-11 (1 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Release amd64 (20171018) ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm-256color PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gnome-panel UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-panel/+bug/1737836/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp