More trouble with Panels

Panels are generally quite buggy in Plasma, they look nice once set up but editing them is such PITA and sometimes results in Plasma freezing entirely. The Weather and Color Picker widgets simply disappear repeatedly, I gave up on them. At least, since then, my main panel has been behaving nearly normally for a while.

But I have a panel set up on the right side that only contains four Sticky Note widgets and two spacers on top and bottom. Every time I log in, it looks like this:

It’s not enough to simply click around the panel, I have to enter and exit panel configuration mode to make it look as it’s supposed to, like this:

Here is the panel configuration, no, I don’t want to auto-hide it and making other changes, such as opacity->adaptive doesn’t make a difference:

Changing it back to non-floating makes it look like this:

System info:

Thanks!

Hi - looks like this bug: 489086 – When system is under heavy load, panel in Fit Content mode is too small at startup until something causes it to re-evaluate its size (e.g. entering edit mode) , the fix for which is scheduled to be released in Plasma 6.3.0.

Note: This issue isn’t present under X11…

I tried with Wayland, I really did. But the sad reality is that at this point in time there’s just too many compromises in comparison to X11. I even swapped out my single HiDPI 4k monitor for dual matched 1200p monitors in the same orientation just to run Wayland.

Unless you’re running mismatched monitors with differing refresh rates, X11 ‘just works’ with little in the way of compromises. The floating panel issue was just one of many issues I encountered running Wayland.