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akronos

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From: Czechia

Registered: 2025-07-28

Posts: 3

Botton panel only pops up when I mouse over at very specific location

Hi,

I've just installed XFCE4 on my laptop and have an issue with the bottom panel. When the panel autohides, in order for it to pop up again, I have to aim the mouse exactly at the thin bar that remains when it's hidden. If I simply drag my mouse to the bottom of the screen, it goes below the panel and it doesn't pop up.

My specs are:

Dist: Arch Linux
Kernel: 6.15.8-arch1-1
DE: Xfce4 4.20
WM: Xfwm (X11)
WM Theme: Default-xhdpi (scale is set to 2x, since I'm on a laptop, screen resolution is 1920x1080)
Theme: Adwaita-dark [GTK2/3/4]

Thanks for any possible help, if I can provide any additional useful information, let me know.

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 12,341

Re: Botton panel only pops up when I mouse over at very specific location

Hello and welcome.

Is this the default panel-2 that comes default or another one that you created?

Can you post back your panel settings:

xfconf-query -c xfce4-panel -lv

...your display settings:

xfconf-query -c displays -lv

...and the output of xrandr:

xrandr

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akronos

Member

From: Czechia

Registered: 2025-07-28

Posts: 3

Re: Botton panel only pops up when I mouse over at very specific location

Hello and welcome.

Is this the default panel-2 that comes default or another one that you created?

Can you post back your panel settings:

xfconf-query -c xfce4-panel -lv

...your display settings:

xfconf-query -c displays -lv

...and the output of xrandr:

xrandr

Hi, thanks for the reply.

Yes, I am using the default panel-2.

You will find outputs of the commands in this pastebin: https://pastebin.com/CTJFtxn6.

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 12,341

Re: Botton panel only pops up when I mouse over at very specific location

Hmmmm. Everything looks good.

Does it work properly if you set the display scale back to 1?

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akronos

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From: Czechia

Registered: 2025-07-28

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Re: Botton panel only pops up when I mouse over at very specific location

Hmmmm. Everything looks good.

Does it work properly if you set the display scale back to 1?

I misspoke earlier, by display scale I actually meant window scale (in appearance under settings), which I now set to 1x (which, weirdly, had no effect. Maybe because I set the GTK and QT scaling env variables in the meantime). My display scale (under display) is set to 0.70.

I just tried setting display scale to 1 and that seemingly fixed the issue, however everything's too big when it's set that way. Any recommendations on how to proceed? Should I use some different way of scaling the display or keep trying to fix the panel pop-up issue?

Again, thank you for your time and help.

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 12,341

Re: Botton panel only pops up when I mouse over at very specific location

I would create a bug report.

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