SUMMARY 8 activities, 8 desktops. Autohide panels top, bottom, right, left. After a random amount of time, all panels are inaccessible in all activities. Initially, by switching to a different activity and back, panels become accessible but only for a time and only for one desktop. Eventually the only way to see panels is by setting visibility to "always visible". Restarting plasma does not fix this problem. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Set up activities and desktops as above. 2. Use for about an hour. 3. OBSERVED RESULT Autohide panels fail to unhide. EXPECTED RESULT Autohide panels should always unhide. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Windows: macOS: (available in the Info Center app, or by running `kinfo` in a terminal window) Linux/KDE Plasma: Debian GNU/Linux 13 KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.6 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.13.0 Qt Version: 6.8.2 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Has been going on for about 10 months
Does changing the window open/close animation temporarily fix it? If so, this sounds like Bug 507541.
Will update as soon as problem arises again. Thank you for the suggestion.
Error just occurred. Changed System Settings/Window Management/Desktop Effects/Window Open/Close Animation several times (Fade -> Glide -> Scale) without reappearance of hidden panels.
Error happened again. This time, after resetting Window Open/Close Animation with hidden panels staying inaccessible, I switched to a different Activity. Hidden panels were working in the new Activity and then in the original Activity after switching back.
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This also sounds potentially related to bug 499833, which was supposed to be fixed in Plasma 6.3.4 but was reported still happening or regressed in 6.4.5
Hi! * Does this still happen with a more modern version of kde? * Can you reproduce this with a fresh account?
Yes, still unfortunately happens. -------- Original Message -------- On Saturday, 03/21/26 at 09:32 Marcelo Lacerda <bugzilla_noreply@kde.org> wrote: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=510048 Marcelo Lacerda <marceloslacerda@gmail.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |marceloslacerda@gmail.com Status|REPORTED |NEEDSINFO Resolution|--- |WAITINGFORINFO --- Comment #7 from Marcelo Lacerda <marceloslacerda@gmail.com> --- Hi! * Does this still happen with a more modern version of kde? * Can you reproduce this with a fresh account? -- You are receiving this mail because: You reported the bug.
(In reply to fnx32 from comment #8) > Yes, still unfortunately happens. Can you let us know what version of Plasma you have now? Thanks. Also, please do not include quoted text in your replies, except where necessary. It adds noise to the report. Thanks for understanding.