The side panel doesn’t hide (application side panel), even though I have set it to auto-hide. It works at first, but after a few times, it randomly stops auto-hiding. I don’t know the reason. Could it be because of the global theme I am using?
i am using this theme: store (dot) kde (dot) org/p/1400424
Hi - does the auto-hide behavior work as you’d expect if you revert all theming back to the default Breeze?
Did you make sure that the theme is compatible with Plasma 6? Most still are not.
Theme is plasma 6 compatible.
It didn’t work, it’s still stuck. It somehow fixes itself after a random amount of time. I’m not sure where the issue is. Maybe the application is causing the issue? Or fixing it?
Just spitballing, are there any applications that might be open when it isn’t working, but closed when it is? (Basically do you keep the same programs open at all times, or is that possibly a variable during the day?)
I have too many programs open, i will pay attention and see which one is causing the issue, if i miss it, i will try to close each program one by one to see if it gets fixed.
thanks
Looks like telegram was causing it, idk the reason, everytime i close it, it works again.
i lied, the issue persists.
I think it is the width or something,
when i have too many applications open it just gets stuck and does not hide.
EDIT: i have confirmed this, if you open to many different applications it gets stuck
This can be caused by the app “requesting attention”. When an app does this, an auto-hidden panel it appears on becomes visible, so you can see the request for attention.
Some apps abuse this feature and request attention too often, causing your auto-hide panel to not be hidden as much as you would prefer. Your mention of Telegram is what makes me suspect this is what’s going on, because Telegram is notorious for annoyingly requesting attention with every single message received.
Ultimately this is a bug in the apps themselves that exhibit this inappropriate behavior.
However the Task Manager widget contains a method to work around this annoying issue: open its settings window, navigate to the Behavior page, and uncheck “Unhide when a window wants attention”.
When using this feature, please report the issue to the developers of the annoying apps, so they know how annoying it is and become a little bit more incentivized to change it.
Rather than making the setting universal for ALL apps simply rightclick telegrams systray icon and disable notifications.
You are right, i was a bit confused every time i closed telegram it would fix itself.
I will just turn off the notifications of telegram.
Thank you guys!
‘However the Task Manager widget contains a method to work around this annoying issue: open its settings window, navigate to the Behavior page, and uncheck “Unhide when a window wants attention”.’
Thank you, this gave me hope with Plasma5 on Debian12, bit it fails when I raise any window that may be partially covered by another, regardless of how few windows are opened. I have to move the cursor over the now-unhidden panel for it to “auto-hide” again.
I did previously remove xwayland, as it caused the display of several application icons in the taskmanager panel to be an orange “W” instead of Firefox, Thunderbird, and it also disabled xkill, xtrlock and others which I use regularly.
