Created attachment 3384 Example of the empty space after opening/closing Thunderbird a few times I recently installed XFCE 4.8.0. However, there seems to be a bug with the notification area. Among other application, I have got Mozilla Thunderbird running minimized in the system tray. Every time I open and then close Thunderbird, its icon and all icons to its left shift one step to the left, causing an empty space in the notification area. This is of course highly annoying, as over time this empty space can grow quite big. Roughly the same problem experienced by someone else has been described in this forum post: http://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?pid=20532 I have created a log file as suggested, which can be found at http://jhanema.nl/pub/panel.log In this log, I start the panel, open and close Thunderbird two times, and finally exit the panel by pressing ctrl+c.
Please attach the output of "xfce4-panel -q && PANEL_DEBUG=systray xfce4-panel > ~/panel.log" which you can run from a terminal and run xfce4-panel -q once you saw the issue.
Created attachment 3386 Excerpt of log file
(In reply to comment #1) > Please attach the output of "xfce4-panel -q && PANEL_DEBUG=systray xfce4-panel > > ~/panel.log" which you can run from a terminal and run xfce4-panel -q once > you saw the issue. I had already provided the whole log file as a link, I have now attached the excerpt which shows the opening and closing of Thunderbird two subsequent times.
Sorry, read the bug too quick.
It appears each time you open/close Thunderbird, it registers a new icon, confusing the systray since Thunderbird only renders the icon once. No idea why it does that. Will try to reproduce it.
Created attachment 3388 My panel.log file
Comment on attachment 3388 My panel.log file >NOTE: child process received `Goodbye', closing down >NOTE: child process received `Goodbye', closing down >NOTE: child process received `Goodbye', closing down >NOTE: child process received `Goodbye', closing down
Should be fixed in db9f6f5.