i do not experience this particular problem, but please note that the current gnome on debian sarge is slightly broken, because it uses a mix of 2.8 and 2.10 packages. i've had manby problems with the panel as a result of that, so it's quite likely that this is a gnome-panel problem rather than pd.

if you can't wait for sarge to deliver a more stable 2.10 gnome, maybe you should downgrade all gnome packages for 2.8 in the meanwhile (it did solve most of my problems).

tom



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