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mustbeit

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taskbar autohide always -- not always happening

OS: Manjaro XFCE

Hi,

Having a 16:9 28 inches monitor, I put the task bar: vertical and on the left.

Eventhough, the display properties are as always auto-hide, sometimes the taskbar stays visible.

Question, when this happens is there a way to force auto-hide?
I tried "xfce4-panel -r", if it dissappeared, it never re-appeared ! Finally I shut down

Thanks

Last edited by mustbeit (2025-05-16 09:46:19)

ToZ

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Re: taskbar autohide always -- not always happening

Are you running in X or wayland?

Have a look at this bug report to see if its related.

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mustbeit

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Re: taskbar autohide always -- not always happening

echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE

x11

mustbeit

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Re: taskbar autohide always -- not always happening

Question, when this happens under X11 is there a way to force auto-hide (and preserve the normal use)?

Thanks

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Re: taskbar autohide always -- not always happening

You could try something like:

xfconf-query -c xfce4-panel -p /panels/panel-1/autohide-behavior -s 0 && xfconf-query -c xfce4-panel -p /panels/panel-1/autohide-behavior -s 2

But there may be a bug there. Was the bug report I linked above relevant/similar?

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mustbeit

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Re: taskbar autohide always -- not always happening

But there may be a bug there.

Definitely there's a bug for me, and an annoying one, but so far I haven't been able to identify a constant way to reproduce it, until then no point to report a bug that can't be reproduced.

Was the bug report I linked above relevant/similar?

Looks at such, but he describes that "After a while (minutes or hours) the panel stops hiding completely."
I do not recon in my observations, that elapsed time would be the root cause, if indeed it's for him under Wayland.

Furthermore, "Running xfce4-panel -r returns normal (quick and immediate) autohide, but the problem returns in not too long."
as I said in 1st post, in my case:

I tried "xfce4-panel -r", if it dissappeared, it never re-appeared ! Finally I shut down

This is the very reason why I asked in a way how to "refresh" the expected behaviour.

mustbeit

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Re: taskbar autohide always -- not always happening

You could try something like:

xfconf-query -c xfce4-panel -p /panels/panel-1/autohide-behavior -s 0 && xfconf-query -c xfce4-panel -p /panels/panel-1/autohide-behavior -s 2

xfconf-query -c xfce4-panel -p /panels/panel-1/autohide-behavior -s 0 && xfconf-query -c xfce4-panel -p /panels/panel-1/autohide-behavior -s 2
Property "/panels/panel-1/autohide-behavior" does not exist on channel "xfce4-panel". If a new property should be created, use the --create option.

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Re: taskbar autohide always -- not always happening

What does the following return?

xfconf-query -c xfce4-panel -lv

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Re: taskbar autohide always -- not always happening

What does the following return?

xfconf-query -c xfce4-panel -lv

xfconf-query -c xfce4-panel -lv
/configver                                   2
/panels                                      [0]
/panels/panel-0/autohide-behavior            2
/panels/panel-0/background-style             0
/panels/panel-0/enable-struts                true
/panels/panel-0/icon-size                    48
/panels/panel-0/length                       100.000000
/panels/panel-0/length-adjust                true
/panels/panel-0/mode                         2
/panels/panel-0/nrows                        2
/panels/panel-0/plugin-ids                   [8,15,12,18,10,14,19,11,20,3,7,6,1,2,5,13,16,4,17,21]
/panels/panel-0/position                     p=8;x=720;y=884
/panels/panel-0/position-locked              true
/panels/panel-0/role                         xfce4-panel-12965750720
/panels/panel-0/size                         64
/plugins/plugin-1                            showdesktop
/plugins/plugin-10                           launcher
/plugins/plugin-10/items                     [17162798211.desktop]
/plugins/plugin-11                           launcher
/plugins/plugin-11/items                     [17162798362.desktop]
/plugins/plugin-12                           launcher
/plugins/plugin-12/items                     [17162798453.desktop]
/plugins/plugin-13                           xfce4-time-out-plugin
/plugins/plugin-14                           launcher
/plugins/plugin-14/items                     [17162798574.desktop]
/plugins/plugin-15                           launcher
/plugins/plugin-15/items                     [17162798675.desktop]
/plugins/plugin-16                           cpugraph
/plugins/plugin-16/background                [1.000000,1.000000,1.000000,0.000000]
/plugins/plugin-16/bars                      1
/plugins/plugin-16/border                    1
/plugins/plugin-16/color-mode                0
/plugins/plugin-16/command                   
/plugins/plugin-16/foreground-1              [0.000000,1.000000,0.000000,1.000000]
/plugins/plugin-16/foreground-2              [1.000000,0.000000,0.000000,1.000000]
/plugins/plugin-16/foreground-3              [0.000000,0.000000,1.000000,1.000000]
/plugins/plugin-16/foreground-iowait         [0.200000,0.900000,0.400000,1.000000]
/plugins/plugin-16/foreground-nice           [0.900000,0.800000,0.200000,1.000000]
/plugins/plugin-16/foreground-system         [0.900000,0.100000,0.100000,1.000000]
/plugins/plugin-16/foreground-user           [0.100000,0.400000,0.900000,1.000000]
/plugins/plugin-16/frame                     0
/plugins/plugin-16/in-terminal               1
/plugins/plugin-16/load-threshold            0
/plugins/plugin-16/mode                      1
/plugins/plugin-16/per-core                  0
/plugins/plugin-16/per-core-spacing          1
/plugins/plugin-16/size                      16
/plugins/plugin-16/smt-issues                0
/plugins/plugin-16/smt-issues-color          [0.900000,0.000000,0.000000,1.000000]
/plugins/plugin-16/smt-stats                 0
/plugins/plugin-16/startup-notification      0
/plugins/plugin-16/time-scale                0
/plugins/plugin-16/tracked-core              0
/plugins/plugin-16/update-interval           2
/plugins/plugin-17                           xfce4-timer-plugin
/plugins/plugin-18                           launcher
/plugins/plugin-18/items                     [17162798756.desktop]
/plugins/plugin-19                           launcher
/plugins/plugin-19/items                     [17162928981.desktop]
/plugins/plugin-2                            pulseaudio
/plugins/plugin-2/enable-keyboard-shortcuts  true
/plugins/plugin-2/known-players              audacious;Chromium;org.kde.haruna;vlc
/plugins/plugin-20                           launcher
/plugins/plugin-20/items                     [17221779811.desktop]
/plugins/plugin-21                           pager
/plugins/plugin-21/rows                      1
/plugins/plugin-3                            tasklist
/plugins/plugin-3/grouping                   1
/plugins/plugin-3/show-labels                false
/plugins/plugin-4                            power-manager-plugin
/plugins/plugin-5                            clock
/plugins/plugin-5/digital-date-font          Sans 11
/plugins/plugin-5/mode                       2
/plugins/plugin-6                            systray
/plugins/plugin-6/known-items                [stacer,redshift,hp-systray,SimpleScreenRecorder,vlc,blueman]
/plugins/plugin-6/known-legacy-items         [shutter,redshift-gtk,connexion au r?seau wi-fi ??wifi-2.4-a474?? active?: wifi-2.4-a474 (47?%),r?seau d?sactiv?,connexion au r?seau wi-fi ??wifi-2.4-a474?? active?: wifi-2.4-a474 (42?%),connexion au r?seau wi-fi ??wifi-2.4-a474?? active?: wifi-2.4-a474 (58?%),connexion au r?seau wi-fi ??wifi-2.4-a474?? active?: wifi-2.4-a474 (46?%),connexion au r?seau wi-fi ??wifi-2.4-a474?? active?: wifi-2.4-a474 (78?%),connexion au r?seau wi-fi ??wifi-2.4-a474?? active?: wifi-2.4-a474 (80?%),connexion au r?seau wi-fi ??wifi-2.4-a474?? active?: wifi-2.4-a474 (44?%),connexion au r?seau wi-fi ??wifi-2.4-a474?? active?: wifi-2.4-a474 (54?%),connexion au r?seau wi-fi ??wifi-2.4-a474?? active?: wifi-2.4-a474 (66?%),connexion au r?seau wi-fi ??wifi-2.4-a474?? active?: wifi-2.4-a474 (68?%),connexion au r?seau wi-fi ??wifi-2.4-a474?? active?: wifi-2.4-a474 (56?%),connexion au r?seau wi-fi ??wifi-2.4-a474?? active?: wifi-2.4-a474 (50?%),connexion au r?seau wi-fi ??wifi-2.4-a474?? active?: wifi-2.4-a474 (48?%),aucune connexion r?seau,connexion au r?seau wi-fi ??wifi-2.4-a474?? active?: wifi-2.4-a474 (40?%),connexion au r?seau wi-fi ??wifi-2.4-a474?? active?: wifi-2.4-a474 (52?%),connexion au r?seau wi-fi ??wifi-2.4-a474?? active?: wifi-2.4-a474 (62?%),connexion au r?seau wi-fi ??wifi-2.4-a474?? active?: wifi-2.4-a474 (63?%),connexion au r?seau wi-fi ??wifi-2.4-a474?? active?: wifi-2.4-a474 (60?%),pamac-tray,applet networkmanager,clipman]
/plugins/plugin-6/names-visible              [pnmixer,manjaro-settings-manager-daemon,networkmanager applet,orage,pamac-tray,blueman-applet,clipman,xfce4-power-manager,xnoise]
/plugins/plugin-6/show-frame                 false
/plugins/plugin-7                            separator
/plugins/plugin-7/expand                     true
/plugins/plugin-7/style                      0
/plugins/plugin-8                            whiskermenu
/plugins/plugin-8/button-icon                /usr/share/icons/whiskermenu-manjaro.svg
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/plugins/plugin-8/menu-height                872
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/plugins/plugin-8/show-command-switchuser    true

ToZ

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Re: taskbar autohide always -- not always happening

You have no panel-1. Try using panel-0:

xfconf-query -c xfce4-panel -p /panels/panel-0/autohide-behavior -s 0 && xfconf-query -c xfce4-panel -p /panels/panel-0/autohide-behavior -s 2

Sorry, I should have been clearer in my previous response.

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