Bug 499258 - Hovering over any icon on a floating panel causes left click to stop functioning
Summary: Hovering over any icon on a floating panel causes left click to stop functioning
Status: REPORTED
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: Panel (show other bugs)
Version: master
Platform: Fedora RPMs Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Reported: 2025-01-28 22:19 UTC by Charlie French
Modified: 2025-02-18 07:03 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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kdeglobals (4.83 KB, text/plain)
2025-01-31 17:59 UTC, Charlie French
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Description Charlie French 2025-01-28 22:19:02 UTC
SUMMARY
When hovering over an icon until the tooltip appears, left click stops working on the icon. Right click still functions, and left click functions up until the tooltip appears. This is the case for all icons and widgets that appear on the panel.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Enable 'Display informational tooltips on mouse hover' in general behaviour settings
2. Add a panel and set the style to 'floating'
3. Hover over an icon until the tooltip appears, and then attempt to interact using a left click

OBSERVED RESULT
Left click does not seem to do anything, cursor has to be moved away from panel to hide tooltip and then quickly click on icon for it to function

EXPECTED RESULT
Left click functions, and application is opened/menu appears

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: Fedora 41
KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.10.0
Qt Version: 6.8.1

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Comment 1 David Redondo 2025-01-29 12:34:51 UTC
Works for me on git master
Comment 2 Marco Martin 2025-01-29 13:10:44 UTC
can't reproduce either
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2025-01-29 18:49:16 UTC
Works here too.

Are you using Wayland or X11?

Can you attach a screen recording that shows the issue happening?
Comment 4 Charlie French 2025-01-29 19:41:13 UTC
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #3)
> Works here too.
> 
> Are you using Wayland or X11?
> 
> Can you attach a screen recording that shows the issue happening?

I'm using Wayland, here is a recording: https://youtu.be/NsSZ5R30rJg
In the recording, when I have my mouse over the VLC icon, I am left clicking with no impact. As you can see, I can only interact with it if I click it quickly before the tooltip appears.
Comment 5 Nate Graham 2025-01-30 16:49:02 UTC
Thanks for the screen recording. It's very strange, and I can't reproduce it when I replicate those steps. Could a 3rd-party script or effect be interfering, maybe? Can you reproduce the issue in a new clean user account?
Comment 6 Charlie French 2025-01-30 21:46:10 UTC
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #5)
> Thanks for the screen recording. It's very strange, and I can't reproduce it
> when I replicate those steps. Could a 3rd-party script or effect be
> interfering, maybe? Can you reproduce the issue in a new clean user account?

I've been suffering from this issue for a while, but only just realised it was the specific combination of tooltips and floating panel. So a few months ago I tried to reproduce on a new user but I can't remember what happened haha. I will go and try now.
Comment 7 Charlie French 2025-01-30 21:46:47 UTC
(In reply to Charlie French from comment #6)
> (In reply to Nate Graham from comment #5)
> > Thanks for the screen recording. It's very strange, and I can't reproduce it
> > when I replicate those steps. Could a 3rd-party script or effect be
> > interfering, maybe? Can you reproduce the issue in a new clean user account?
> 
> I've been suffering from this issue for a while, but only just realised it
> was the specific combination of tooltips and floating panel. So a few months
> ago I tried to reproduce on a new user but I can't remember what happened
> haha. I will go and try now.

And no, I'm not sure what script it could be, I don't think I run any other than my KDE theme.
Comment 8 Charlie French 2025-01-30 21:50:20 UTC
On a new user, the issue does not occur. Not sure what to make of this, but I have deleted my configuration so many times to fix this issue, I am not going to do it again. If there is a non-destructive way to figure this bug out then I'm all for it, but otherwise I will just sacrifice the tooltips and forget about it.
Comment 9 Nate Graham 2025-01-31 16:40:01 UTC
Can you attach your ~/.config/kdeglobals file after removing any personal information from it?
Comment 10 Charlie French 2025-01-31 17:48:13 UTC
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #9)
> Can you attach your ~/.config/kdeglobals file after removing any personal
> information from it?

Sure, added as an attachment
Comment 11 Nate Graham 2025-01-31 17:55:30 UTC
Looks like it didn't come through.
Comment 12 Charlie French 2025-01-31 17:59:07 UTC
Created attachment 177857 [details]
kdeglobals
Comment 13 Charlie French 2025-01-31 17:59:26 UTC
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #11)
> Looks like it didn't come through.

Whoops! I forgot to hit send. Should be there now :)
Comment 14 Nate Graham 2025-01-31 23:04:59 UTC
Thanks. Nothing suspicious there. Can you attach plasmashellrc now? Again scrub it for personal info. In particular note that if you have a weather widget, the location will be shown in that config file.
Comment 15 Charlie French 2025-01-31 23:06:34 UTC
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #14)
> Thanks. Nothing suspicious there. Can you attach plasmashellrc now? Again
> scrub it for personal info. In particular note that if you have a weather
> widget, the location will be shown in that config file.

Here: 
```[PlasmaViews][Panel 384]
floating=1
panelVisibility=2

[PlasmaViews][Panel 384][Defaults]
thickness=56

[PlasmaViews][Panel 414]
floating=1

[PlasmaViews][Panel 414][Defaults]
thickness=36
```
Comment 16 Charlie French 2025-01-31 23:07:02 UTC
Oh the formatting is broken ahah
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Comment 18 Nate Graham 2025-02-18 03:43:00 UTC
Do by any chance have an NVIDIA GPU? Just shooting in the dark here at this point.
Comment 19 Charlie French 2025-02-18 07:03:36 UTC
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #18)
> Do by any chance have an NVIDIA GPU? Just shooting in the dark here at this
> point.

No, I have an Rx 7800xt