problem with system tray and notification

Hello list :)

I've been looking for a solution to this problem for awhile, and even
tried switching window managers to get away from it, but I really
*like* Fluxbox and want it to work for me, so here goes:

My problem is that notifications don't seem to be clearing out of the
system tray--well, the notification clears, but the whitespace
remains. Gradually my system tray expands to eat up my entire toolbar.
I've googled and found other mentions of the same problem, but no
solutions.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=11675359#post11675359
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/26785/fluxbox-sytem-tray-adding-more-and-more-whitespace


I'm using Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric) but the problem began in 11.4
(Natty). I'm on Fluxbox 1.3.1

If anyone knows how to fix this, I would love the solution. (Or if
this needs a bug report, should I make one to Flluxbox or Ubuntu?)

Thanks,

-Mel

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