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[Richard Bruce Baxter <82504@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The developer reaction to this basic bug is a joke, and is the reason
why people are afraid of challenging quality levels offered by
monopolies. Taskbar autohide functionality has existed in window
managers for over a decade, and Linux can't get it right... Why even
support the feature if it doesn't work?

It seems people have given up all together on this issue - out of
"choice" perhaps?

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Title:
  gnome-panel autohides inconsistently

Status in Desktop panel for GNOME:
  Confirmed
Status in NULL Project:
  Invalid
Status in “gnome-panel” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “metacity” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: gnome-panel

  Hi! I'm using Ubuntu Feisty (the latest version from the official
  repositories) and I have a bit of a problem with the gnome-panel.

  I set the panels in a very similar arrangement as the default one -- a
  panel on the top side of the screen and another on the bottom, with a
  few applets changed and shuffled. I set both panels to autohide, as I
  like having my full screen available for applications. I also tweaked
  a bit the settings using the configuration editor: I set the
  hide/unhide delay to zero, and the "size when hidden" also to zero.

  This works almost always exactly the way I wanted it: the panel
  disappear completely when not used, and appear instantly when needed.

  However, for some reason I can't determine, sometimes I notice that
  one of the panels (I've seen it happen to either at some point) remain
  unhidden, despite the mouse cursor being outside them, and even
  clicking inside the windows. If I enter the panel with the mouse (no
  click is necessary) it will then disappear when the cursor leaves it.

  Like I said, I haven't been able to notice exactly what causes the
  panel to remain up -- but it always happens after I did something with
  it (it never pops up by itself). It seems for some reason it misses
  (or doesn't receive) a mouse-leave event or something similar.

  Please let me know if I can help diagnosing this in any way.

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