Even though i enable Autohide option panel doesn't always autohides itself. Hovering a mouse pointer near a panel(fixes it for X session) gives no result(on Wayland session), only if i use Show Desktop to hide all windows the auohide feature starts working again. Alternatively each window can be minimized manually and then click on desktop area and hover near panel, it also restores autohide behaviour.
Can confirm this behavior for a bottom panel with autohide in Plasma 5.11.95. Minimizing all windows restores autohide functionality. Will gladly provide more information on request.
Git commit 1cb0d180bdda8bf06b77daf7a404d9213270752b by David Edmundson. Committed on 28/01/2018 at 09:14. Pushed by davidedmundson into branch 'Plasma/5.12'. Fix autohide panels on wayland Summary: To test if the panel is under the cursor we used: if (geometry().contains(QCursor::pos(screenToFollow()))) { Unsurprisingly in wayland we don't know the cursor position once it's left our window. Behaviour seems to be undefined. We were already using enter and leave events to start the autohide timer, so we may as well rely on that for tracking state too. Test Plan: Tested mouse in, mouse out Tested mouse in and waiting and panel stayed open Tested opening wifi applet and closing it That will trigger the restoreAutoHide method as an applet status changed The panel stayed open because the mouse was on it. Reviewers: #plasma, mart Reviewed By: #plasma, mart Subscribers: plasma-devel Tags: #plasma Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D10101 M +20 -18 shell/panelview.cpp M +1 -0 shell/panelview.h https://commits.kde.org/plasma-workspace/1cb0d180bdda8bf06b77daf7a404d9213270752b