Hi everyone!
I’ve been testing Fedora 43 recently and I’m hitting a frustrating little bug with the panel. I’m wondering if anyone else is seeing this or if it’s just my setup.
I have my panel set to Auto-hide, and I’m using the Icons-only Task Manager. The issue is that when the panel hides, it often refuses to come back up when I move my mouse to the edge of the screen.
The weird part? The “active edge” (that thin blue glow/bar) does show up, so Plasma definitely knows my cursor is there, but the panel itself just stays hidden. It’s like it’s teasing me!
A few details:
Has anyone found a workaround for this? Or is this a known regression in the latest Plasma builds?
Cheers!
This is a nasty little bug… and has just started for me again. I can’t remember if I fixed it last time… but it’s been fine for quite a while.
For now I set Meta_X to pull up the panel…
In the past, I noticed behaviour very specific to Firefox, so when testing - use a Dolphin window to test it to differentiate.
It works fine for me with Dolphin/konsole, but if Firefox comes close enough to hide it, it won’t come back unless I use the keyboard shortcut.
I think I found the fix!
Since I use a laptop with two monitors, I tried disabling ‘Switch desktop on edge’ in the ‘Screen Edges’ menu. As soon as I did that, I was able to bring up the Task Manager with my mouse again. I’m not sure if this is a bug or if anyone else is experiencing this, but it’s working for now.
Is there any known workaround other than this? Even on a new install of tumbleweed with KDE, with ‘switch desktop on edge’ in any setting I get this issue. I’ve been trying to find any fix and it really does seem to be just using the shortcut, which is less than ideal. Same behavior as mentioned, blue line but no panel.
Any info would be appreciated,
Thanks.