Task Bar Autohide doesn't works properly in Plamsa 6 in Cachy OS.

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I wanted the taskbar to appear as soon as the mouse reaches the screen edge (like in windows) . Nothing happens when i bring my mouse to the edge.

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Panel autohide works fine here. I am on Plasma 6 with these versions:

KDE Plasma Version: 6.6.1
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.23.0
Qt Version: 6.10.2
Kernel Version: 6.19.5-3-cachyos (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland

That being said, you have to push your mouse to the absolute edge of the screen for it to trigger.

What behavior are you seeing when you enable panel auto hide?

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Thanks for replying. To answer your question, nothing happens when I push the mouse to the absolute edge. I wanted to share the video link but i can’t. Here’s my system info:
Operating System: CachyOS Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 6.6.1
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.23.0
Qt Version: 6.10.2
Kernel Version: 6.19.3-2-cachyos (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 12 × 13th Gen Intel® Core™ i5-13420H
Memory: 16 GiB of RAM (15.3 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop GPU
Graphics Processor 2: Intel® Graphics

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How did you enable panel auto hide?

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from the panel configuration.

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Is panel height still set to some reasonable value?

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Here’s screenshot of the config menu

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Have you tried a new user with a clean config?

It is possible the theming you have applied is part of the issue.

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A couple of things to try:

  1. Try setting “Alignment” to centre (you’re using full width anyway)

  2. Do you have settings in “Screen Edges” conflicting with the autohide here?

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  1. yes , I have checked with the clean config too. Actually, I never knew that auto hide reveals your task bar on mouse edge because “auto hide “ always acted like this for me. I recently got to know that it was a bug on my side when i searched for taskbar reveal on mouse edge in linux.
  2. Checked with centre one too no results
  3. I have one “screen edge” enabled but its top left whereas my taskbar is at the bottom.