I’m using KDE 5.27.10 with i3wm. I also use KDE panel instead of i3’s. How can I utilise the auto-hide feature of kde panel? Or at least hide the panel on keyboard shortcut?
I’ve been trying to move the panel to a scratchpad, but that didn’t work. Of course, changing kde panel visibility setting to auto-hide does not make any difference.
https://pastebin.com/gJ4W4Dhk my i3 config.
Do you have an item on the panel that has “unhide when a window wants attention” ticked? Post a screenshot of your KDE panel.
This might not have anything to do with i3 at all.
I don’t have any item that has a “unhide when a window wants attention” checkbox.
My panel items are:
I’m not sure about everything else because I don’t use Plasma, but I think this one is doable via plasma desktop scripting and qdbus.
Take a look at the documentation if you want to dive deep into it.
The program to hide the panel is probably as simple as calling a function and passing it a panel id or something. Once you have written the program, you have to launch it via qdbus. The command to launch qdbus can then be bound to a keyboard shortcut that you can trigger everytime you want to hide the panel.
After some digging I came across this command:
qdbus org.kde.plasmashell /PlasmaShell org.kde.PlasmaShell.evaluateScript "panels()[0].height = -1"
It would change panel size to -1, which is basically hiding it. However, this has stopped working since Plasma 5.27. I don’t think KDE API involves other functionality for hiding panel.
hey, did you find any solution for it?
No, I came to the conclusion that this isn’t quite possible. I actually ditched i3 and moved on with wayland plasma 6.
In there, I created a script that would toggle panel style from ‘visible’ to ‘auto-hide’ I believe. It was triggered with a shortcut, so it was working in a similar way I wanted to achieve. But without i3.