Bug 504952 - On Wayland, OSD appears under X11/XWayland popups marked as "always on top"
Summary: On Wayland, OSD appears under X11/XWayland popups marked as "always on top"
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: general (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 6.3.5
Platform: Arch Linux Linux
: NOR minor
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Keywords: wayland-only
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2025-05-29 10:05 UTC by vovanblhc
Modified: 2025-05-29 15:50 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description vovanblhc 2025-05-29 10:05:44 UTC 
Created attachment 181850 [details]
bug demonstration

SUMMARY
Media player's OSD can be drawn below opther applications' menus

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
I found this bug in intellij idea when I changed the music volume with intellij's completion menu in the center of the screen

OBSERVED RESULT
Intellij's menu is drawn on top of the OSD

EXPECTED RESULT
OSD is always on top of everything

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.14.0
Qt Version: 6.9.0
Comment 1 David Edmundson 2025-05-29 10:56:39 UTC 
It is indeed on top of native wayland popups and under X11 popups.

It's not necessarily possible to solve, if we change where "always on top" x11 things are we risk breaking something else where the other way round is correct, but we can check.