SUMMARY Since plasma 6.4 bug since plasma 6.4 bug 499833 is back. That means that my autohiding top panel doesn't allways show up when I call it. And that I have to enter edit-mode to make that possible again. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. create autohiding panel 2. start plasma 6 3. bump to rim of the screen to call the hided panel OBSERVED RESULT quite often nothing happens EXPECTED RESULT panel shows SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: KDE neon User Edition KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.0 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.15.0 Qt Version: 6.9.0 Kernel Version: 6.11.0-26-generic (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 4 × Intel® Celeron® J4105 CPU @ 1.50GHz Memory: 8 GiB of RAM (7.4 GiB usable) Graphics Processor: Intel® UHD Graphics 600 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
I'm testing again... It seems this only happens when I start LibreOffice (28.08 beta 1) as first application after startup. So imho this is not important. But when I learn other things about this behavior I'll inform you. Thanks.
After some testing I can be more specific now. This bug feels a lot like bug https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=499833 ( Bottom panel of plasma 6.3 appears nicely at startup but auto hiding top one still doesn't. February 2025). But when I look closer there is a difference. After plasma is completely started, I can successfully "call" the (auto)hidden top panel by bumping the cursor against the top of the screen BUT when plasma is completely started AND I start a program that wants to use the global panel immediately after, THEN the top panel won't show. In that case I have to enter edit mode first.
I have the same issue, just after the startup my bottom panel with auto-hide on (OLED screen) is not showing, I enter edit-mode and back and it starts to work normally. Operating System: Arch Linux KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.2 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.15.0 Qt Version: 6.9.1 Kernel Version: 6.15.5-zen1-1-zen (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U w/ Radeon 780M Graphics Memory: 64 GB of RAM (54.6 GB usable) Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon 780M Graphics
After working quite some time with plasma 6.4, I conclude that in far more than half of the times after startup the top panel only shows after going in "edit mode". It feels like a regression into bug 499833
(In reply to PK from comment #2) > After plasma is completely started, I can successfully "call" the > (auto)hidden top panel by bumping the cursor against the top of the screen > BUT > when plasma is completely started AND I start a program that wants to use > the global panel immediately after, THEN the top panel won't show. In that > case I have to enter edit mode first. Can you share a screen shot of the entire auto-hiding panel, so I can see which widgets are in it? Also, can you share a screenshot of the panel settings for it? Thanks.
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Created attachment 185986 [details] top-autohiding-panel I'm really sorry TraceyC, I missed your kind reply. Here is the screenshot you wanted to see. And even just before I started to write this, I had to enter "edit mode" to get the top panel ready to show. Thank you
I was able to reproduce this on Plasma built with git-master with a similar panel setup, but only after waking the laptop from sleep The top auto-hiding panel, set up the same way as in the screenshot, would not unhide. I didn't see the blue highlight indicating the mouse is near the unhide area. I had to enter Edit Mode to get it to unhide.
(In reply to TraceyC from comment #8) > I was able to reproduce this on Plasma built with git-master with a similar > panel setup, but only after waking the laptop from sleep > The top auto-hiding panel, set up the same way as in the screenshot, would > not unhide. I didn't see the blue highlight indicating the mouse is near the > unhide area. I had to enter Edit Mode to get it to unhide. Thank you so much for looking in to it. Great that you could reproduce.