Patrick O'Callaghan wrote, On 02/26/2010 07:30 PM: > I use auto-hide for the panel, but sometimes it gets stuck in the > 'visible' position and won't disappear. This can be dealt with by > toggling the autohide feature off and on again, which usually fixes it. > > Rather more difficult is when it doesn't auto-appear after hiding > itself. It only happens occasionally, and it's hard to determine exactly > what causes it, but there could be a correlation with cpu activity, > including a lot of USB (pendrive) I/O. > > Once it disappears, there's no reliable way to get it back other than > logging out and in again. > > Does anyone have a better way? This is 4.4 but the same thing has also > happened with every previous 4.x version. > > poc > I have not seen the panel get stuck off or on and I have been using it hidden forever. However, there is a bug that is somewhat similar that I have seen in 4.x: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205116 -gene