Bug 385777

Summary: Plasma default bottom panel flickers badly when using autohide.
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: Mark Constable <kde>
Component: PanelAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: major CC: nate, nicholasjestrada, notuxius
Priority: NOR    
Version: 5.11.0   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Kubuntu   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:
Attachments: Video of flickering

Description Mark Constable 2017-10-15 13:30:12 UTC
The autohide function for the bottom default panel flickers and has been (for me) for a month or two since using ~5.10.4. Currently on Kubuntu artful and the kubuntu-ci/stable plasma desperately trying to get to a version where there is no autohide flickering. It's hard to describe the problem so here is a video example...

https://markc.blog/public/20171015_Plasma_Panel_Flicker.mp4
Comment 1 Nicholas Estrada 2018-02-22 19:29:30 UTC
I can back this up. This has been happening to me since I started using autohide. It's pretty annoying. I'm on 5.12, but it happened on 5.10 and 5.11 as well.
Comment 2 Nicholas Estrada 2018-02-22 19:33:35 UTC
Created attachment 110910 [details]
Video of flickering
Comment 3 Mark Constable 2018-02-23 00:50:37 UTC
Good to know I am not the only one. I'm also still getting this flickering on 5.12 but perhaps not quite as bad recently. Sorry about removing the video from the link in my original post. I've just updated it with a new one so ignore the date in the filename, it's really done on 20180223.
Comment 4 Alexander Mentyu 2018-03-01 14:20:38 UTC
Related bug https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=376065
Comment 5 Nate Graham 2021-05-07 18:29:29 UTC
Cannot reproduce in Plasma 5.21. Can you?
Comment 6 Mark Constable 2021-05-08 05:27:58 UTC
This has not been a problem for me for at least 2 years now. Actually, since I switched to Manjaro.