I’m using EndeavourOS with KDE Plasma 6 on Wayland, and I’m experiencing an issue with Yakuake. I have a top panel in my setup, and it seems to prevent Yakuake from opening at the very top of the screen.
Instead, Yakuake always appears below the panel’s position, even when the top panel is hidden (e.g., while another application is fullscreen). Despite trying various approaches, including tweaking window rules, I haven’t been able to fix the problem.
I’d appreciate any advice or suggestions to resolve this issue.
You can’t. That is how it is intended to work. You would need to set the panel to autohide or maybe play around with the other modes. However, if the panel is set to always present. Then nothing is supposed to go above the panel.
The panel is set to auto-hide, but the Yakuake window still appears beneath the panel’s original position. Please refer to the uploaded images. Even when other applications are open and the panel is hidden, the Yakuake window remains positioned as if the panel were still visible at the top.
As you can see from my screenshot. The panel is behind yakuake. Did you have a kwin crash recently. I know that causes yakuake to not work right until you fully close out of it and launch it again?
I haven’t encountered any crash reports for the window manager recently. However, since I tweaked the window manager and window rules recently (in an attempt to resolve this issue), it seems something in KWin may have been broken. After restarting the system, the auto-hide feature now works as expected (one problem solved).
However, the main issue remains: making Yakuake open at the top of the screen when switching the panel setting from auto-hide to “dodge windows.” As you mentioned, this doesn’t seem to be possible at the moment. For now, using auto-hide is the only viable option, and I’m hoping for future updates in KDE to introduce such a feature.
I don’t think that’s the way it works. When i put it on dodge windows the task bar auto hides when you open a window. But if i have a window open and i open yakuake it does not open at the top of the screen even though the task bar has auto hidden when set to dodge windows. Then if i close the open window. the task bar shows and yakuake is below it. The task bar in this instance does not dodge the yakuake terminal and auto hide. It remains shown at the top and yakuake below it. I have zero changes to any of my window manager.
