Created attachment 176705 [details] Both panels are displayed as individual 'plasmashell' instances in the task switcher SUMMARY Panel turns into a separate application and can be overlapped by other windows after being focused via shortcut in KDE Plasma 6.2+ STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Open Panel settings. 2. Set a shortcut for "Focus" (e.g., Ctrl+Alt+\[ in my case). 3. Close the settings. 4. Press the assigned shortcut to focus the panel. OBSERVED RESULT After pressing the shortcut: - The panel turns into a separate application, as can be seen in the task manager/window switcher (it gets its own icon and entry). - The panel can be overlapped by other application windows. This makes the panel inactive and unusable until it's selected via Task Switcher. - Restarting the `plasmashell` process temporarily resolves the issue until the shortcut is pressed again. - The panel keeps this incorrect behavior until a system reboot, or manual kill of the "plasmashell" process as mentioned before. EXPECTED RESULT The panel should be focused after pressing the shortcut but should remain a normal panel, not a separate application. It should behave as a panel, not like a regular window. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: Arch Linux KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.9.0 Qt Version: 6.8.1 Kernel Version: 6.12.4-arch1-1 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION - Processors: 8 × 11th Gen Intel® Core™ i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz - Memory: 7.6 GiB of RAM - Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics - The problem started appearing approximately in KDE Plasma 6.2 and is still present in 6.2.4. - I was unable to find a similar bug report on the bug tracker or forum. - Screenshots attached to demonstrate the issue.
Does this happen on Wayland too, or only on X11? I can't reproduce it on Wayland.
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1) > Does this happen on Wayland too, or only on X11? I can't reproduce it on > Wayland. Only X11, there is no issue on Weyland
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A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/5098
Git commit 3c876b3d320f9cf2ecba0e4addddd73f65618080 by Marco Martin. Committed on 22/01/2025 at 15:57. Pushed by mart into branch 'master'. panel: explicitly SkipSwitcher and KeepAbove after losing focus after the panel was given focus via the keyboard shortcut, it becomes visible from the task switcher and can be covered by other windows, when running on x11 explicitly set the states to both skip the task switcher and to stay above the other windows M +6 -1 shell/panelview.cpp https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/commit/3c876b3d320f9cf2ecba0e4addddd73f65618080
Git commit cdec5f942757d8df4c10ed7928cdb31da46335b6 by Marco Martin. Committed on 22/01/2025 at 15:58. Pushed by mart into branch 'Plasma/6.3'. panel: explicitly SkipSwitcher and KeepAbove after losing focus after the panel was given focus via the keyboard shortcut, it becomes visible from the task switcher and can be covered by other windows, when running on x11 explicitly set the states to both skip the task switcher and to stay above the other windows (cherry picked from commit 3c876b3d320f9cf2ecba0e4addddd73f65618080) 3c876b3d panel: explicitly SkipSwitcher and KeepAbove after losing focus Co-authored-by: Marco Martin <notmart@gmail.com> M +6 -1 shell/panelview.cpp https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/commit/cdec5f942757d8df4c10ed7928cdb31da46335b6