Comment 45 for bug 769644

Here on Ubuntu 12.04 with lxpanel 0.5.8, the problem still exists. However, after I log in, the first lxpanelctl command works (e.g alt+f2 opens the run command window). However, after that, nothing works.
I worked around the problem by using gmrun, though it's not the best solution, because none of the lxpanelctl commands work.