Plasma 6 panel unhide not reliable?

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So I was just forced into a Plasma 6 update from some version of 5. So far its broken my themes, moved things around, changed a bunch of my appearance settings, changed my icon theme, changed my sound theme, and a number of other small issues that irritate me but i’ll eventually get all sorted out.
Irritated about it, but not the end of the world. I don’t like interface changes that happen without my knowledge.

However, the one thing that I cannot seem to fix is the behavior of the panel autohide. The panel hides without issue, but i cannot get it to unhide reliably. I push the mouse to the edge of the screen and the panel wont pop up, or it pops up after a long delay, or i have to wiggle the cursor on the edge of the screen to get it to pop up, whereas in Plasma 5 it popped up reliably and quickly every time. Is this a “feature” i can disable? or is this a bug or something I can configure?

it’s incredibly annoying and really disrupting my workflow here.

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Try System Settings > Mouse & Touchpad > Screen Edges > Activation delay: set to 0ms (or its default value of 75ms, if you previously set it to something much higher). A change for Plasma 6 was that panel auto-hide now respects this value, whereas previously it did not.

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Weird that it would be in mouse settings and not next to the panel autohide setting. but thanks, that fixed it!

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Happy to help. It’s in the mouse & touchpad settings because it only takes effect when using a mouse or touchpad. It’s also global in scope—affecting all panels—so it couldn’t be in the panel settings because those are per-panel, not global.