When I hover over applets on the panel with the mouse pointer, an info popup appears but only very briefly before it disappears again.
I think it used to be that the popup stayed as long as the mouse pointer was on it. This is no longer the case, because the popup disappears very quickly regardless of whether I hover over it with the mouse pointer or not.
Is there a way to alter that? E.g. to increase the time the popup is shown or to make the popup stay under the mouse cursor?
Even in the icons-and-text Task Manager applet the popups disappear too quickly and hovering above it doesnât make them stay. I this intended behavior?
Operating System: Arch Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.1
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.7.0
Qt Version: 6.8.0
Kernel Version: 6.11.3-arch1-1 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Graphics Processor: Mesa IntelÂŽ UHD Graphics 630
Is it only me who has this problem that the notifications in the panel, as well as from desktop widgets disappear so quickly that you hardly have enough time to read them?
Is it possible that this is an error in the configuration? Perhaps some incompatible entries remained in the config files during the transition from Plasma 6.1 to 6.2 that are interfering? Which files would I have to edit or delete?
I have also noticed that since Plasma 6.2.2 the panel widgets âpanel colorizerâ, âpanel transparency buttonâ and âpanel transparency toggleâ have been behaving very weird and incorrectly, so that other widgets in the bar no longer work properly. Since I stopped using these widgets, the behaviour has improved.
Does anyone have more experience?
The POP-UP you show is simply a label showing you information about the icon youâre hovering over.
There is absolutely no function in the popup other than being visible whilst the cursor is over the icon. It disappears when your cursor leaves the icon.
Thereâs no point hovering the popup or trying to click it - it does nothing.
Thanks for answering. Youâre quite right: it isnât a popup rather a label. And what Iâm struggling with is that this label shows up only a fracture of a second and not -as you mentioned it:
being visible whilst the cursor is over the icon
It shouldnât disappear until my cursor leaves the icon only it isnât! All info labels do appear only for a short moment before they disappear, even though the cursor didnât leave the icon.
Hovering over the favorites icons of the app menu launcher is even worse as the label stucks in a loop of appearing and disappearing, like so:
This flickering resp. blinking prevents clicking the icon!
The labels of desktop widgets also disappear far to quickly. I suppose the intended behaviour should only disappear when the cursor leaves the icon.
Edit: I can reproduce this issue on another laptop with Arch Linux Plasma 6.2.2
Ouch - not with my horizontal panel, I havenât tried vertical⌠hold tight.
Something is messed up - when I put my panel to the left edge, those labels appear to the RIGHT of the cursor, and on the right edge, labels pop up to the left of the cursor.
They are also permanent - not timed, and they donât flicker. I think perhaps your desktop is rather heavily themed and messed upâŚ
Iâd suggest you first verify it with a new USER and then removing the config.
If youâre using Garuda, then there maybe other issues as they are known for being heavily opinionated in their theming and setup options.
Somethingâs very wrong with the way theyâre trying to appear under the cursor there.
My Gif-example is not the horizontal panel but the app menu launcher. With my panel its not blinking, but even so disappearing too quickly. I reproduced that issue on another system. Both are Arch Linux Plasma 6.2.2. â no Garuda. Will try it with another user as suggested
Tried on a different user with default configuration and can reproduce the bug with the Application Menu widget but not in others, is this happening with all widgets for you?
Thank you all for taking an interest.
Interim status:
Panel: the label disappearing too quickly is related to Conky! After trying around without running conky, the labels are working as expexted! Here the relevant part of conky.conf:
Probably the own window class or rather window type?
@luisbocanegra The blinking label on favorites of the app menu launcher occurs only with one particular menu app namely the âapplication menuâ!?
âApplication launcherâ and all the other alternatives donât have that issue!
I tested to run conky with window types normal, desktop, dock, panel and override with no effect to the issue.
The issue isnât present without running conky, so its for sure that conky is the villain! Does anyone has a clue?
Here all relevant graphic parts of my conky config:
Could be, which conky version are you using? Even with the extra config you shared I am still unable to reproduce the bug. Do you have any window rule applied to conky window?
Plain conky, version 1.21.5
Yes I applied a window rule to conky window to force conky to appear only on 2 of 3 activities. But deleting that rule doesnât resolve the issue!
Most of my conky windows run a lot of âexternalâ scripts every minute (like: pacman -Qm, aur vercmp, checkupdates, dolphin --version, awk, kinfo, grep and bash scripts).
Starting a conky window that doesnât run any of those âexternalâ scripts, or at least runs only scripts that are inherent to conky (such as: mem, memmax, memperc, membar, swap, swapmax, swapperc, swapbar etc) do allow Plasma labels of panel and widgets to appear normally!
Yeah, I tested the conky part you posted ( needed to add a bracket ) with some straightforward regular stuff and it seems ok. So, itâs your custom âextrasâ that are causing a prob while using them in conky. One thing I noticed in your conky though. There doesnât seem to be a maximum width/heigth.
Yeah, got it! You were right hinting at my conky custom âextrasâ, even though it wasnât maximum width/heigth: I used exec instead of execi 60 in one of my conky scripts. That seemed to have been updating the output constantly and apparently deactivated the labels of Plasma panel and widgets!
Thank you all for bothering! Iâm glad of not having to clear my Plasma config files
Regarding the bug of the application menu, i hope it will be fixed in some time