Issues with vertical panel and autohide

[polla]

Do to the small screen on my laptop I'vde moved the Mate panel to the left side of the screen and used the autohidden feature. However this is presenting some issues that are a bit annoying.

1.- the elements of the panel didn't rotate
2.- when pressing the "windows" key the panel doesn't show up, only the menu.
3.- when moving the mouse to the left side of the screen to reveal de panel and then click and moving the cursor over the menu, causes the panel to hide again and the open menu moves back to the left side of the screen.

Is there a way to solve any of this issues?

PS: I am using Linux Mint Tara

[Hoser Rob]

Unfortunately there's no useful system info there really, copy/paste this to the terminal and copy/paste the text output here (no screenshots please):

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inxi -Fxz

[polla]

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System:    Host: asus Kernel: 4.15.0-20-generic x86_64 bits: 64 gcc: 7.3.0
           Desktop: MATE 1.20.1 (Gtk 3.22.30-1ubuntu1)
           Distro: Linux Mint 19 Tara
Machine:   Device: laptop System: ASUSTeK product: 1008P v: x.x serial: N/A
           Mobo: ASUSTeK model: 1008P v: x.xx serial: N/A
           BIOS: American Megatrends v: 0907 date: 01/26/2011
Battery    BAT0: charge: 0.0 Wh 0.0% condition: 30.3/31.6 Wh (96%)
           model: ASUS 1008P status: Charging
CPU:       Dual core Intel Atom N550 (-MT-MCP-) 
           arch: Bonnell rev.10 cache: 512 KB
           flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 ssse3) bmips: 5985
           clock speeds: max: 1500 MHz 1: 1217 MHz 2: 997 MHz 3: 1175 MHz
           4: 997 MHz
Graphics:  Card: Intel Atom Processor D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx Integrated Graphics Controller
           bus-ID: 00:02.0
           Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.6 )
           drivers: intel (unloaded: modesetting,fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1024x600@60.03hz
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Pineview M
           version: 1.4 Mesa 18.0.5 Direct Render: Yes
Audio:     Card Intel NM10/ICH7 Family High Def. Audio Controller
           driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.15.0-20-generic
Network:   Card-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR8132 Fast Ethernet
           driver: atl1c v: 1.0.1.1-NAPI port: ec00 bus-ID: 01:00.0
           IF: enp1s0 state: down mac: <filter>
           Card-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)
           driver: ath9k bus-ID: 02:00.0
           IF: wlp2s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 250.1GB (7.0% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: ST9250315AS size: 250.1GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 29G used: 6.8G (26%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3
           ID-2: /boot size: 464M used: 78M (18%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
           ID-3: /home size: 198G used: 7.7G (5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda4
           ID-4: swap-1 size: 2.05GB used: 0.00GB (0%)
           fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2
RAID:      No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 61.0C mobo: N/A
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes: 168 Uptime: 21 min Memory: 397.2/976.1MB
           Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 7.3.0
           Client: Shell (bash 4.4.191) inxi: 2.3.56