Always visible panels cover fullscreen apps

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setting a panel to always be visible covers full-screen apps, obscuring some elements (ex., path bar in Dolphin). This is most visible and annoying in games

Is this intended behavior? is it a bug?

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Not intentional.

Does it happen with every fullscreen app, or only some?

Does it happen on X11 too, or only on Wayland?

Does it happen in a new user account with no customizations?

If not, then can you attach a full-screen screenshot when it’s happening so people can see any visual or functional customizations you may have applied which may be causing or contributing to the problem?

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It happens with any full screened window here for example the pannel is covering where dolphin file path bar should be

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This is on wayland for some reason (which I never really tried figuring out why)

My X11 plasma session is broken (doesn’t load) so can’t confirm if its only wayland .

I’ll try to see if I can replicate this under a new user

EDIT: Hmm so it doesn’t happen on a new user (which still uses all of garuda theming) so it has to be something I added then…

EDIT:2 there was a kwin script I completely forgot about from plasma 5 that

automatically hides panels when apps cover the whole screen.

that probably was conflicting with plasma 6 native behavior or something. (surprised kwin5 script even loaded)

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It’s difficult to tell due to the heavy theming, but from what I can see, nothing is actually going wrong. I suspect the global theme you installed has turned on the borderlessMaximizedWindows property which makes window titlebars disappear when maximized.

The hint that this is intentional is the window minimize/maximize/close buttons in the top-right corner on the panel. If borderlessMaximizedWindows weren’t turned on, then you would have duplicate buttons and it would all look awfully silly.

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this was the kwin script in question luisbocanegra/kwin-panel-auto-hide this was causing the issue

Thanks nate for the troubleshooting tips

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