parts of gnome panels disappear randomly

[maddbaron]

upgraded from Lucid to Maverick, panels lose pieces randomly then come back just as randomly. sometimes i have to right click on them other times they just come back after a few minutes on their own.

No idea whats wrong, would like to know if it could be related to my inability to enable desktop effects even though my driver is working fine. and if so is this a driver issue or an xorg issue or a kernel issue and how can i trouble shoot to find out and fix?

any help would be appreciated.

thanks in advance.

[Hakunka-Matata]

This issue has been extant in every Release I've used. To such a degree that I now know the three commands necessary to kill and reset the default panel. I'm betting heaps of others have the same problem.

You cannot invoke desktop effects?, are you using a vendor specific driver for your graphics card?

[maddbaron]

I'm using the proprietary driver fire gl for ati...fglx. It wasn't working before but now it is but no matter what I do effects won't be enabled. I even upgraded my xorg to the bleeding edge release and still nothing.

I really wanna have this fixed before Natty drops since it uses effects I can't access (like compiz)...it's frustrating because thing were fine in lucid but I wanted some thing in maverick and wanted things in natty...

[Hakunka-Matata]

I'm running natty Desktop 64bit Alpha3 and love it, 10.10 never quite worked right for me.

[maddbaron]

yeah, it seems more and more i'm going to have to wait for natty and fix all my desktop issues hopefully

[Hakunka-Matata]

why are you waiting? why not get it now?

[maddbaron]

why are you waiting? why not get it now?

how would i get it now? Is it stable enough for daily usage?

[Hakunka-Matata]

how would i get it now? Is it stable enough for daily usage?

Yes. it is stable enough for daily usage. I've been using it for about one week now, and LOVING it.

https://wiki.edubuntu.org/Lubuntu/Testing

Please follow up and tell me how it is going for you if you choose to try it.

[Hakunka-Matata]

how would i get it now? Is it stable enough for daily usage?

Yes. it is stable enough for daily usage. I've been using it for about one week now, and LOVING it.

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[Hakunka-Matata]

http://www.alivetorrents.com/torrent/9137288

OK, that's a good natty-desktop-amd64.iso torrent, go for it.