https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=351175
--- Comment #23 from Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> --- So while working on this I got thinking about another workaround people may find useful until a fix is available to them. (Doesn't mean I've stopped trying to do a hack-patch, tho, this is just a different workaround.) There are command-line window-management tools like wmctrl and xdotool available. Command-line of course means scriptable, which makes these especially handy (and I use them personally) for hotkey launching and other dynamic use, where kwin's window rules aren't appropriate because they apply all the time and you want the rule only applied on demand and/or you want for instance two different window sizes and/or positions invokable when kwin's window rules can only handle one. There's also xprop, which allows you to read window properties, and when combined with grep in a script, test for specific window property matches (like window rules do) as necessary to ensure you're matching the intended window. It should therefore be possible to setup a script that can toggle panel-visibility (as generally possible with any window) using a hotkey, tho if plasma or kwin keeps trying to override it, it may be necessary to, for instance, have the script force-position the window off-screen in "hidden" mode, and position it back to screen-edge in "shown" mode. The script could then be configured to launch with either a hotkey or potentially when the mouse hits a hot-edge (xdotool's behave_screen_edge function, note that I've never used this personally so I'm not sure how it works with "internal" borders), triggering panel show or hide. If no one else gets inspired to create and attach such a script, if I decide I can't hack-patch plasma to fix this or decide I need a break from my attempts, I'll try a script, something I'm much more comfortable doing, so am 90% sure I can do (the 10% uncertainty being in how insistent plasma's going to be in trying to override the script's show/hide and/or placement), vs. only perhaps 30-40% sure at current status (up from 20-30% before I found those breakcrumbs) that my limited skills are up to hack-patching plasma to fix the problem. So one way or another I'm reasonably sure I can do either a hack-patch fix or a workaround script, one or the other, but it may well involve having to install some scriptable window management tools and assigning hotkeys to a script to take over the hide/show plasma panel(s) functionality from plasma. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
