clock applet, system tray stop updating when the panel is hidden

Thanks for your report, which version of Ubuntu are you running? Does that works fine with another new user created on your system? Not confirming for now.

This is Intrepid, up to date.

I can reproduce it with a new user on occasion, but not sufficiently often to be able to make a video of it.

Same here. Once in a while the clock applet stops updating. Actually it is not just the clock applet but the whole panel stops updating. For example, I have this happening right now. I have autohide, visible hide buttons, half transparent background. Right now the wireless icon is invisible as well. But I can right click it, and I can interact with all icons. They just don't update their displays.

I am using Ubuntu Intrepid. Nvidia 6800GS. Athlon XP 2500+. 1 gb ram. MSI K8neo platinum motherboard. Compiz with all features. Using metacity, not emerald.

I am not sure, but I guess this problem started after I turned autohiding on for the panel.

Also, I suspect non-gnome tray icons to cause this problem. Recently I installed dropbox, which places a systray icon. After that my wireless icon started to behave weirdly. It sometimes gets invisible. I am attaching a screenshot. you can clearly "see" the invisible wireless icon at the left end of the tray. dropbox icon is to the right of it. notice how the dropbox icon is smaller than the rest of the theme. It fails to scale nicely along with the rest of the panel.

By the way, right now it is 23:34 here. Notice how the clock stopped updating a couple hours ago.

Same here. I have non-gnome applets running, one for my MGE UPS, and one for mobile phone sync with synce.

Applet icons sometimes go blank, and the clock stops updating too.

It's really an issue, sometimes I go to bed far too late than expected because of this stupid clock applet !

the issue is an upstream one and should be sent to bugzilla.gnome.org by somebody having the bug

My clock randomly stops too. I am running Lucid but this also happened on Karmic for at least the past month.

here too, just stops sometimes, very annoying...

Thank you for sending the bug to GNOME

I had the same problem but it my case I fixed it by simply showing the seconds (go to preferences and then check the "show seconds" box) It hasent spots since then.

I am affected by this as well. It only began happening since recently. Recent changes on my system would be:

* Upgrading to grub2
* Enabling framebuffer for kernel with uvesafb
* installing gnome-do and docky
* Completely redoing the panels on my desktop.

I deleted and re-added the clock applet, too, it may be related.

I noticed that whenever this happens, the entire panel becomes "frozen". It works, can be used, but applets within never refresh. For instance the virtual desktop chooser works fine but the tiny window previews inside don't reflect reality anymore.

Running on 10.04 x86_64, fully up to date, nvidia-current.

I also observe this on my up-to-date Maverick. Another way to make it update again is to set the panel's position to a side of the screen instead of top, and then put it back on top (putting it on the bottom doesn't fix it). I've noticed other strange panel update problems, like zones that become white, or the taskbar fails to update (I can click on it to switch between open apps, but the app entries are not actually displayed). In all cases moving the panels to the side and then back fixes the problem.
It seems to frequently occur when I add/remove the external monitor.