I’ve been searching and looking up configurations to fix the issue I’ve had with auto-hiding panels, mentioning that I wanted to use the Meta key to show the panel rather than hovering on it, I ended up solving the issue (sort of), but this just caused another problem.
Long story short, my improvised dock I use with a panel that auto-hides does not show up with the fix I’ve come up with. To this I ended up trying different dock plugins, but some just refuse to start or others like Plank require X11 to run.
Is there any dock that could work with KDE running Wayland, or am I stuck with a dock that only shows up when pressing a focus shortcut?
I use Plasma Panel - which can be set to Auto-hide, though I prefer the ‘Dodge Windows’ setting which most closely replicates the behaviour I preferred when I switched to Latte Dock back in the day…
When it’s hidden, I hit ‘Meta’ which opens the main menu - but also this brings the panel back into view.
Shortcuts can be set for simply focussing the panel - though that would interfere with using Meta for the main menu shortcut if you want Meta to simply show the panel.
You could also add Meta_Z, or Meta_X or Alt_X to your repertoire of shortcuts and avoid conflict.
Cause as it stands other then gnome an there 3rd party one that breaks every number release there’s no option. And no you cant use the gnome one on kde.
I’ve tried Crystal Dock, I gotta say, it’s not for me, I dislike the lack of custom settings for tooltips, as I find them obnoxious. But for now, it works.
Also thanks to @EliteAMDGamer for letting me know that there is current development towards a working Plasma 6 Latte-Dock build. I’ll be checking it from time to time.
If there is any other dock recommendations, I would like to know them.
