Bar autohide + Super key

[lucasgabmoreno]

 * Cinnamon 5.4.9
 * Distribution: Linux Mint Debian Edition LMDE 5
 * Intel HD 5500(i915) + Nvidia 940M (nvidia-driver)
 * 64 bit

Issue

After updating to last Cinnamon version, when press Super (Winkey) in autohide bar, this overlaps Menu.

Steps to reproduce
Super (Winkey)

Expected behaviour
No overlap Menu and bar

[mtwebster]

Hi, can you try out the Mint cinnamon themes (any of them) to see if this happens there? This may be a theme issue.

[lucasgabmoreno]

Nope, same problem with Mint-Y-Dark (in different computers).

[rcalixte]

I've noticed this as well but haven't had a chance to dig into this part of the code yet. Essentially what is happening is when the panel is set to auto-hide and the Super key is pressed (or whatever Open Menu accelerators are configured), the Menu is displayed before the panel is unhidden which causes the panel to appear above the bottom of the menu dialog box. The same thing can happen if the Menu has "Open the menu when I move my mouse over it" enabled (though this is harder to replicate consistently).

It seems like a race condition where the panel needs to be expanded first and only once fully expanded, then the Menu should be opened.

@lucasgabmoreno A workaround I've found when needed is to mouse over the panel to expand it before opening the Menu or disabling the option "Force the panel to be visible when opening the menu" in the settings.

[rcalixte]

Duplicate of #10970

[lucasgabmoreno]

Thanks @rcalixte! But I can't find "Force the panel to be visible when opening the menu" en settings.

[mtwebster]

Right-click the start menu button and select 'Configure' - it's in the applet's settings, not panels.

[mtwebster]

In the past, it was the same behavior as current, except the menu shifted once the panel was fully open. I had a look at this yesterday -

• Waiting to show the menu until the panel reveals itself would take too long.
• Eliminating the panel animation when the menu opens is really not viable currently without a lot of rework to the panel or a lot of ugly hacks (there are delays and callbacks involved that make 'show panel' -> 'panel shown' non-synchronous.

The simplest solution for now is to mimic the behavior in previous versions and have the menu shift when the panel opens.

[lucasgabmoreno]

Thanks! I found them but doesn't solve the problem.

[nhamawi]

This is still a problem today in the latest release of Cinnamon and even worse if you dock the taskbar panel to the top of the screen, in which case, the search box is partially obscured.

[fredcw]

This issue was fixed by 11788 above and can be closed.