Launcher Overlaps the lxpanel after RTL Language Change

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

I can confirm the behavior, at least in the 20160102 version, since that's what I actually have as well. Further testing needs to be done to determine if this is present in the most current xenial as well as previous versions. We also need to check other flavors. It's not clear that this is truly an lxpanel bug.

Changing the size of lxpanel has no effect. Changing the position does: left and right orientations have no problem. Adding a spacer between the application launch bar does not help.

Im having this problem too, im using Hebrew language and after this setting starts the panel is maybe at the right side of the screen, but there's a total mess:

 - Half of the start button is hidden by the launch bar.
 - A whole window's task is hidden behind it
 - The shutdown icon is covering half of the hour.

This is also makes clicking on the right item much harder.

Please:

1. Report to <http://sourceforge.net/tracker2/?func=add&group_id=180858&atid=894869>
2. Paste the new report link here.
3. Set this bug status back to "confirmed".

Thank you.

Reported at LXDE bugs system
https://sourceforge.net/p/lxde/bugs/798/

This bug was fixed in the package lxpanel - 0.9.1-1ubuntu1

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lxpanel (0.9.1-1ubuntu1) zesty; urgency=medium

  * Merge with Debian unstable. Ubuntu remaining changes:
  * debian/control:
   - Add libindicator-dev build-depends.
   - Add lxpanel-indicator-applet-plugin binary.
   - Add build-depends on libicu-dev for weather plugin.
   - Update Replaces and Breaks on lxpanel-data (LP: #1417244).
  * debian/lxpanel.install:
   - Install all plugins except indicators.
  * debian/lxpanel-indicator-applet-plugin.install:
   - Install indicator plugin.
  * debian/rules:
   - Add --enable-indicator-support flag.
   - Add dh_install --fail-missing.
   - Re-enable dh_makeshlibs, FTBFS with lxpanel-indicator-applet-plugin.
  * debian/patches:
   - 04_disable_gtk3_indicators.patch: Hide incompatible indicators in the
     preference menu (LP: #1165245).

lxpanel (0.9.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Andriy Grytsenko ]
  * Merging upstream version 0.9.1 (Closes: #845060).
  * Using aumix-gtk on !linux-any instead of gnome-alsamixer.

  [ Pino Toscano ]
  * Making sure that ALSA is always disabled for non-Linux architectures.

lxpanel (0.9.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Merging upstream version 0.9.0 (Closes: #831866, LP: #824071, #1445818,
    #1474936, #1490098, #1537334, #1533308, #1539930, #1555649, #1581708,
    #1583833, #1615326).
  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.8.
  * Updating debian/lxpanel.lintian-overrides for multiarch.
  * Updating lxpanel.hints.5 manpage.
  * Updating debian/lxpanel.README.Debian removing section about lxpanel-dev.
  * Updating debian/copyright file.

 -- Julien Lavergne <email address hidden> Sat, 26 Nov 2016 11:39:13 +0100

I found this bug reproducible. Please add a screenshot if possible. I reported this bug on LXDE Upstream Bug Tracker (https://sourceforge.net/p/lxde/bugs/893/)

Hello Usama, or anyone else affected,

Accepted lxpanel into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxpanel/0.8.2-1ubuntu2.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-xenial to verification-done-xenial. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-xenial. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

On a fresh Xenial install in a VM, 0.8.2-1ubuntu2.1 fixes the problem.

This bug was fixed in the package lxpanel - 0.8.2-1ubuntu2.1

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lxpanel (0.8.2-1ubuntu2.1) xenial; urgency=medium

  * Fix PanelIconGrid allocation in right-to-left languages (LP: #1537334).
    - fix-RTL-overlap.patch

 -- Simon Quigley <email address hidden> Sun, 28 Jan 2018 23:36:04 -0600

The verification of the Stable Release Update for lxpanel has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.