Task Bar pushing all other items off of panel after update

[happysmash27]

At first I thought this was only an issue with my secondary PC that still has a lot of messed up packages and libraries, but now it is happening on my main PC as well, and has also been reported by someone else as a bug: viewtopic.php?f=8&t=40027&p=55471&hilit=task+bar#p55471.

I am on Gentoo Linux with Breeze-Dark theme, lxde-meta 0.5.5-r7, lxpanel 0.10.1.

The appearence is as follows:

This is doable on my secondary PC, but very much breaks my workflow on my main PC where I always used to use LXDE as a fallback, then switched to full-time because everything else had too many issues. Does anyone know what may cause this apparent graphical glitch?

[figueroa_andy]

It looks like you are running out of space because of so many open windows. Reduce the Maximum width of task buttons (I'm using 90) and/or select to Combine multiple application windows.

[drooly]

No, the task bar settings seem to be in order.
I have to assume that the rest of the panel stretches over to the second monitor, and is currently covered by a terminal.
Please also show us the Geometry tab of Pamel Preferences.

[happysmash27]

It does not stretch over to the other monitor. Here is a screenshot of the geometry tab:

Currently I have been working around this by manually setting the maximum task button size to be very well, but this is a dirty workaround. The tooltips for each window also appear at the top of the screen now, instead of at the bottom where they should be.

[drooly]

I'm not familiar with multimonitor solutions. Some random ideas:

• Try setting Monitor: All in the Geometry tab
• What is taking care of your desktop background/icons? Is it set to span both monitors? Full report please.
• Also play with lxpanel's Advanced tab settings
• Play with the settings for the Panel Applets ("Stretch" checkmark), esp. Task Bar (Window List)