Re: Panel bug: overlapping panels fighting to show themselves (fwd)

[Andy Tai <atai ece ucsd edu>]

Sorry I missed an important detail: this bug exists when the global panel 
setting "raise penels on mouse over" is on.  Disable that setting and this
bug goes away...

Obvious explanation for the bug.  (but it is a bug nontheless)
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> Hi, I think this is of interest to the panel developers: in gnome-core 1.1.3,
> if you set up two panels in the same area (say the bottom of the screen) and
> set one of them to autohide so normally just one panel appears.  Now move the
> mouse pointer to the very bottom of the screen so the second penel raises up. If
> the mouse pointer is over areas common to both panels, you will see the two
> panels constantly redraw themselves so there is an flashing effect as the 
> two panels switch rapidly between themselves to try to jump to the front.
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> The system is Red Hat 6.0, with icewm as the window manager, if that matters.