SUMMARY STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. log into your plasma session 2. add the panel (any type with any widgets) 3. go to edit panel > more options and set "auto hide" 4. moving cursor to panel's edge makes it appear, moving cursor away makes it disappear. its how it should be. 5. but now click the desktop or another panel OBSERVED RESULT new panel do not disappear anymore until you either click on it or move cursor to its edge and then move away EXPECTED RESULT panel should still auto hide SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: Opensuse 15.2 KDE Plasma Version: 5.18 from opensuse repos Linux/KDE Plasma: gentoo KDE Plasma Version: 5.22.5 built with -march=native -O2, tried both clang and gcc ADDITIONAL INFORMATION what's interesting, thats a possible duplicate of 191239, but for plasma 5.
Thank you for the bug report. Unfortunately we were not able to get to it yet. Can we ask you to please check if this is still an issue with Plasma 5.27? If it is, can you answer the following questions? 1. Is the affected panel on a screen edge between two screens? If so, does the problem go away if you move it to another edge? 2. Is the affected panel also touching another panel? If so, does the problem go away if you make it stop touching that other panel, or move that other panel to a different screen edge such that they don't touch anymore?
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(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1) sorry, i forgot about this bug yes, this is still an issue with plasma 5.27 and 5.28. this affects all the panels no matter if its between two screens or even if you have just one screen. the panel stops autohiding when i trigger hotkey for switching between desktops, then it hides after i move the cursor in it and out, but it won't hide itself unless i touch it. however, i fixed it by removing some config files like kwinrc, plasmashellrc and some others, so the issue was with just my configuration. this is still a bug since i never touched configs manually, that means this bug can appear on one's machine because he just changed some plasma settings, but since there are no duplicates for this bug i hope its fixed already. i will examine which config string exactly causes this bug as soon as i have time for it
Thanks a lot!
ok so i tried to mess around with configs and found that this behaviour is caused by HideUtilityWindowsForInactive=false under [Windows] section in kwinrc config file, which seems to be systemsettings > window manager > window behaviour > advanced > "hide utility windows for inactive applications" checkbox. this is apparently an intended behaviour, which makes me a feel a bit stupid because i thought its something connected with backward compatibility and the fact that i carry the same configs from plasma 5.18 till these days, but i guess i just unchecked it myself once upon a time. that's fun though, i didn't know plasma lets u make auto hide panels not autohide, what a level of customization! jokes aside, imho the naming of this feature isn't very clear and obvious, and i wonder if it affects anything but panels, but even if it does, maybe the handbook or docs should say something like "this will disable auto hiding for panels" about this particular checkbox?
Aha, that makes it Bug 402912. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 402912 ***