If it lends any clues, I've experienced this same bug going back many versions of gnome I believe back to 2.26, in both Ubuntu and Gentoo, - with metacity compositing enabled.
The one thing I think I've linked it to is the use of devilspie. I use it to remove titlebars, and though I'm not familiar with it, it sounds similar to what others have seen here with maximus' undecorate. I've also used both nvidia proprietary drivers, and nouveau thinking it might be a compositing issue with drivers. Seems to present in either case. I don't use or have eclipse installed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/405089 Title: Gnome panel (UNR) disappears with metacity compositor enabled -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs