Bug 504952

Summary: On Wayland, OSD appears under X11/XWayland popups marked as "always on top"
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: vovanblhc
Component: generalAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: minor CC: kde, kde, nate
Priority: NOR Keywords: wayland-only
Version First Reported In: 6.3.5   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Arch Linux   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description vovanblhc 2025-05-29 10:05:44 UTC
Created attachment 181850 [details]
bug demonstration

SUMMARY
Media player's OSD can be drawn below opther applications' menus

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
I found this bug in intellij idea when I changed the music volume with intellij's completion menu in the center of the screen

OBSERVED RESULT
Intellij's menu is drawn on top of the OSD

EXPECTED RESULT
OSD is always on top of everything

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.14.0
Qt Version: 6.9.0
Comment 1 David Edmundson 2025-05-29 10:56:39 UTC
It is indeed on top of native wayland popups and under X11 popups.

It's not necessarily possible to solve, if we change where "always on top" x11 things are we risk breaking something else where the other way round is correct, but we can check.