SUMMARY When every panel is set to autohide, the _NET_WORKAREA hint is not set in the root window. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Set every panel to autohide 2. Log out and log in 3. The following command does not show the hint: xprop -root | grep _NET_WORKAREA OBSERVED RESULT _NET_WORKAREA is not set EXPECTED RESULT _NET_WORKAREA should be set to the size of the root window SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: Kubuntu
According to the spec, you're right >https://specifications.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/1.3/ar01s03.html > This property MUST be set by the Window Manager upon calculating the work area >for each desktop. What real-world problem were you hitting?
It was reported by one of my users: https://github.com/JoseExposito/touchegg/issues/381 I rely on this value to display animations based on user multi-touch input. You can see some examples here: https://github.com/JoseExposito/touchegg#available-actions It was easy to workaround on my side though.