https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=468356
Bug ID: 468356
Summary: Panel Visibility "Auto-Hide" Forces Panel to Top (as
though an application is needing attention)
Classification: Plasma
Product: plasmashell
Version: 5.27.4
Platform: Archlinux
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: Panel
Assignee: plasma-b...@kde.org
Reporter: incomingst...@gmail.com
CC: niccolo.venera...@gmail.com
Target Milestone: 1.0
SUMMARY
After updating to 5.27 [the weekend of it's release], the panels that hold my
"Icon-Only Task Manager" and "System Tray" widgets no longer disappear when the
panel is set to "Auto-Hide" visibility. Instead, when you move the mouse focus
away from the panel, it stays visible, forcing itself above all other windows
on the desktop, as though an open window is needing focus, even though no
window actually does. It never animates to hide itself.
If you are slow to bring the mouse back over the panel nothing is clickable.
However, once the mouse crosses the top third or so of the panel, it does the
animation to display itself, as though it wasn't already visible, and then the
icons become clickable.
My momentary solution is to switch visibility to "Windows can cover" which
gives a similar behavior to what "Auto-hide" use to do, but not quite. It seems
that the panel will remain visible, even when no windows are open. I believe
that is intended for "Windows can cover", however I would much rather use
"Auto-Hide" if it was't bugged. At least using "Windows can cover" provides the
general behavior I need, properly hiding and showing when other windows are
open.
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Add panel to bottom of screen
2. Set panel visibility to "Auto-Hide"
3. Open an application (such as Chromium)
OBSERVED RESULT
The panel will still be visible above any open window.
EXPECTED RESULT
The panel should be hidden behind the window, and only visible when you mouse
over the panel area.
SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Arch Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.104.0
Qt Version: 5.15.8
Kernel Version: 6.2.10-arch1-1 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 16 × Intel® Core™ i9-9900K CPU @ 3.60GHz
Memory: 31.3 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
I saw the bug report about this [https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=466126]
already, and the issue may also be related to this
[https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=467862].
I do have two monitors. However, while they are side by side, the panels are on
the bottom of each screen. The displays are correctly displayed next to each
other in System Settings and Nvidia X Server Settings, and the mouse/windows
move correctly between the monitors. The arrangement looks like this:
____________________________________
| | |
| 2560x1440 | 1920x1080 |
| (primary) | |
| |===============|
|==================|
Where the ==== are the panels. The buggy behavior is present on both monitors.
Rebooting does nothing and the issue is present from the moment I am logged in.
I have tried moving the panels to both the top of the screen and the left/right
most edges of the screens, and that does not seem to change anything (in other
words, no matter what screen edge the panel is on, the issue remains).
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