5-15-21 - With Auto hide mode, panel keeps stretching icons when editing items or adding items to panel

[motoryzen]

Problem = Cinnamon 20.1's panel ( something) stretches the icons, and I always must manually correct this by going to panel settings, selecting to Always show panel, then manually selecting center and right and on each toggling the colored icon size to another size/setting and then back to the one I want.

It doesn't matter what panel height I have set, this problem still keeps repeating.

This never happened in Cinnamon 20 or 19 unless I added items to the Panel while it was already in " Auto hide" mode

Also This problem never happens when I leave my Linux Mint Cinnamon 20.1 panel set to "Always Show"

Further more,I tried both with Kernel 5.8 varieties via Linux mint Cinnamon's own Update Manager and Kernel. 5.10.16 via the Ubuntu Mainline Kernel updater program.

Also I tested this both updating to that 5.10.16 kernel before AND after updating LM cinnamon to 20.1. The problem seems only showing in LM Cinnamon 20.1.

[icarter09]

Cinnamon 4.8.6 Mint 20.1 64bit

I'm not able to reproduce this issue. Can you provide a screenshot of the issue and also what you have for the "Center Zone" and "Right Zone" settings in "Panel Appearance"? Thanks.

[motoryzen]

1st. Now it only happens when I leave panel in Autohide mode 1st..then adding anything to panel such as opening Cinnamon Menu, right clicking on what I want to add and selecting " add to panel" as well as right clicking on an item and editing it in anyway.

In the attached picture example here is where I added cpupower-gui to the panel at the center portion...thus only the center has the stretched icons..crap going on and the rest of the panel is normal

The "panel icons always stretched again " upon reboot problem finally seems to be gone. Sorry I'm late on updating that.

System: Kernel: 5.11.16-051116-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A Desktop: Cinnamon 4.8.6 wm: muffin 4.8.1 dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Linux Mint 20.1 Ulyssa base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal Machine: Type: Desktop Mobo: ASRock model: X570 Taichi serial: <filter> BIOS: American Megatrends v: P4.10 date: 03/08/2021 CPU: Topology: 12-Core model: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 3 L2 cache: 6144 KiB flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 177595 Speed: 4119 MHz min/max: 2200/3700 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 1: 4119 2: 4134 3: 4383 4: 4037 5: 4513 6: 4420 7: 4272 8: 4391 9: 4422 10: 4350 11: 4342 12: 3945 13: 4514 14: 4558 15: 4268 16: 4490 17: 3759 18: 4479 19: 4417 20: 4557 21: 4319 22: 4124 23: 4467 24: 4454 Graphics: Device-1: AMD Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590] vendor: Sapphire Limited Nitro+ driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus ID: 0b:00.0 chip ID: 1002:67df Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: amdgpu,ati unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa tty: N/A OpenGL: renderer: Radeon RX 580 Series (POLARIS10 DRM 3.40.0 5.11.16-051116-generic LLVM 12.0.0) v: 4.6 Mesa 21.1.0 - kisak-mesa PPA direct render: Yes Audio: Device-1: AMD Ellesmere HDMI Audio [Radeon RX 470/480 / 570/580/590] vendor: Sapphire Limited driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 0b:00.1 chip ID: 1002:aaf0 Device-2: AMD Starship/Matisse HD Audio vendor: ASRock driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 0e:00.4 chip ID: 1022:1487 Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.11.16-051116-generic Network: Device-1: Intel I211 Gigabit Network vendor: ASRock driver: igb v: kernel port: f000 bus ID: 06:00.0 chip ID: 8086:1539 IF: enp6s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> Drives: Local Storage: total: 14.37 TiB used: 5.67 TiB (39.4%) ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Intel model: SSDPEDMW800G4 size: 745.21 GiB speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> rev: 8EV10174 scheme: MBR ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Toshiba model: HDWR11A size: 9.10 TiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: 7200 rpm serial: <filter> rev: 0603 ID-3: /dev/sdb vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO 4TB size: 3.64 TiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 4B6Q scheme: GPT ID-4: /dev/sdc vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO 1TB size: 931.51 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 3B6Q scheme: MBR Partition: ID-1: / size: 732.02 GiB used: 71.49 GiB (9.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5 Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 74.1 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 45 C Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 835 Repos: No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/additional-repositories.list 1: deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ focal main Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/caldas-lopes-ppa-focal.list 1: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/caldas-lopes/ppa/ubuntu focal main Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/cappelikan-ppa-focal.list 1: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/cappelikan/ppa/ubuntu focal main 2: deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/cappelikan/ppa/ubuntu focal main Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list 1: deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/kisak-kisak-mesa-focal.list 1: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kisak/kisak-mesa/ubuntu focal main No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/lunarg-vulkan-1.2.162-focal.list Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/lutris-team-lutris-focal.list 1: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/lutris-team/lutris/ubuntu focal main Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list 1: deb http://packages.linuxmint.com ulyssa main upstream import backport 2: deb http://mirror.brightridge.com/ubuntuarchive focal main restricted universe multiverse 3: deb http://mirror.brightridge.com/ubuntuarchive focal-updates main restricted universe multiverse 4: deb http://mirror.brightridge.com/ubuntuarchive focal-backports main restricted universe multiverse 5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-security main restricted universe multiverse 6: deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ focal partner Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openshot_developers-ppa-focal.list 1: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openshot.developers/ppa/ubuntu focal main Info: Processes: 437 Uptime: 15h 13m Memory: 125.73 GiB used: 38.67 GiB (30.8%) Init: systemd v: 245 runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 9.3.0 alt: 9 Shell: bash v: 5.0.17 running in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.0.38

So....the core complain here has basically gone down in severity, but the main problem of the panel stretching icons still stands when you have it in Auto Hide mode while doing anything such as adding panel items... Thus I should edit my post title then. Sorry about the delay on updating that.

....EXCEPT..for right clicking an item and removing it... That = ok :D

That ...does not mess with the panel what so ever and everything just works as normally there.

2nd part of your question " center zone and right zone settings". Just like the left zone...all zones are 32 in "colored icon size" and " Symbolic icon size'. ..which is what I prefer.

[motoryzen]

Thanks for your time either way be it a successful resolution or not in the end :)