On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 23:40 -0500, Gene Smith wrote: > 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 Hmm, it's hard to tell if this is the same thing, but it kind of looks like it isn't. One of the frustrating things about a hidden panel is that some apps (e.g. qbittorrent) actually *live* there, and don't show up in an Alt-Tab list. IOW it's impossible to get to them (even though they are definitely still running according to 'ps'). I'd like to know if there's a "force the panel to be visible" command, e.g. via plasma. That would solve the problem for me. poc
