Version: (using KDE 4.3.4) OS: Linux Installed from: Archlinux Packages With plasma panel (bottom of the screen) set to autohiding, the lower screen area the panel normally occupies is not clickable in full-screen mode apps. Confirmed with VirtualBox qt4 client, Opera (qt3), even OpenOffice 3.1. Setting the panel to "always visible" gets rid of the problem.
yes, it's the invisible 1 pixel tall unhide window that steals clicks, the unhide feature will probably be moved into kwin in the future, but until then not much can be done
The unclickable area is much taller than 1px. When I run Windows XP in a full-screen VBox window all of the Windows taskbar is unusable and then some more lines above it. In OO.o Calc 1 and a half bottom rows are inaccessible. And, this happens ONLY in full screen.
i can confirm this with kde 4.4.2 and virtualbox
I can confirm that, full screen apps have a dead zone in the area where the auto-hidden panel would appear. KDE version: 4.7 (openSUSE 11.4, packages from OBS) Applications affected: (at least): krdc, firefox-5.0, smplayer, flashplayer.
(In reply to comment #1) > yes, it's the invisible 1 pixel tall unhide window that steals clicks, the > unhide feature will probably be moved into kwin in the future, but until then > not much can be done Maybe a quick workaround (such as re-sending all mouse events received by the unhide window to the topmost full-screen window) would do? It looks dirty, but at least we can live with it until the unhide feature is moved into kwin.
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Still valid in kde 4.7.3
STILL valid in KDE 4.8.2.
I don't know if this is helpful, but I would suggest this bug be made more important than 'NOR normal'. It may seem like a minor issue in most programs, but youtube and any other video players (or anything else with a toolbar at the bottom) become almost completely inoperable in full screen.
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This bug is still valid in 4.9.3. I've wrote the patch which fix this bug three months ago. It works fine, but it's moodily that it used in my local overlay only. My patch: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/106110/
This bug not only applies to the lower screen area, but to the upper screen area too, when one has a panel on the top of the screen. This is especially annoying, because it makes menus in the fullscreen apps completely inaccessible.
Hi all, this bug is a big annoying problem for me: an auto-hide panel would be the best solution for my way to do. Is there any way, explained step by step, to solve this issue? thanks
nakki, there's no solution except for Alexey's patch (though I don't know if it still works in 4.10). You can only use it by rebuilding source code yourself for your distro.
My patch is still working in 4.10.1 To use it you should download kde-workspace's source files, apply patch (it's available on reviewboard), build and install. I don't know how to do this in different distros. However, if you're Gentoo user, I could share patched ebuild.
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https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/112727/
Created attachment 83888 [details] old patch
I'm sorry didn't mean to propose the above as a solution. I'm just wondering: Will this bug finally be fixed in 4.12? If not could anyone explain witch patch is better: 1) the one attached above 2) the one proposed by thomas 3) the one attached in https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=305497
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I'm surprised that this bug hasn't been fixed in 5 years. It must be a really difficult one fix! Or perhaps no users use auto-hiding panels? In any event, this still exists in 4.13.0 for those of us who do use auto-hiding panels.
This bug only seems to manifest if desktop effects are enabled.
Isn't that the duplicate of https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199017 ? Note: I've found a workaround.
Serhly, I believe you are correct and that it is a duplicate of bug 199017, but I can't confirm. This bug report is specific to clicks not coming through only for full screen applications, but it isn't clear if that is also true for the other bug - perhaps it wasn't clear to the user when 199017 was reported that the bug only occurred when an application was in fullscreen mode.
I worked around it by setting the "windows can cover" option. It works very well on my way to do.
It seems to be solved in KF5/Plasma-Next. but It also seems to be a regression with the "Windows Can Cover" option.
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(In reply to nakki from comment #26) > I worked around it by setting the "windows can cover" option. It works very > well on my way to do. This workaround fixes the problem for me too on kubuntu 14.10.
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The "Windows can cover" trick doesn't work anymore, since Plasma 5.7 I think. Really annoying.
Hello! This bug report was filed for KDE Plasma 4, which reached end-of-support status in August 2015. KDE Plasma 5's desktop shell has been almost completely rewritten for better performance and usability, so it is likely that this bug has already been resolved in Plasma 5. Accordingly, we hope you understand why we must close this bug report. If the issue described here is still present in KDE Plasma 5.12 or later, please feel free to open a new ticket in the "plasmashell" product after reading https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/Bug_Reporting If you would like to get involved in KDE's bug triaging effort so that future mass bug closes like this are less likely, please read https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved#Bug_Triaging Thanks for your understanding! Nate Graham