Recently dipped into the configuration of KDE Plasma and I found something really annoying. These toolbars at the top and bottom dont disappear, when I want to play a game, even tho the game starts and is set to fullscreen mode. Additionally, this also really fucks with my mouse in a way, that I cant use the upper part of menus, because then my mouse snaps out of the window and reappears in the upper toolbar. How do I change this?

  • who@feddit.orgEnglish
    20·
    4 days ago

    Those are your desktop panels. This might help:

    • right click a blank area on one of them
    • Enter Edit Mode
    • More Options…
    • Visibility: Windows Can Cover

    FWIW, they don’t normally show when a game is in full-screen mode. Is it possible you changed a setting from its default, or that the game (or your Wine/Proton version) is using a fake full-screen mode?

    • cows_are_underrated@feddit.orgOP
      2·
      4 days ago

      There is no such thing as “more options” when i enter the edit mode. Theres this thing:

      Where i found nothing about visibility, and then theres this thing:

      Where I get to choose between “Foreground, Background, Limiting and hidden”

      None of the option acieves the desired effect

      • who@feddit.orgEnglish
        3·
        4 days ago

        Your screen shots look like you right-clicked the desktop and selected its edit mode. Unfortunately, I don’t read German, so I don’t know what to make of the text shown there.

        What I’m describing requires right-clicking a blank area of the panel and selecting its edit mode. When you do that, a bar should appear with buttons including Add Widgets, Add Spacer, and More Options.

        Tested in Plasma 5.

        • cows_are_underrated@feddit.orgOP
          1·
          3 days ago

          When I enter the edit mode of the bar, and then rightclick on the bar again I get this:

          Where I can (top to bottom), cocnfigure the taskmanager, chose another task manager, add widgets, edit the general settings of the bar (which leads me to the things described in my last comment), remove the task manager and remove the bar completely.

          I am on Plasma 6.3.5

          • who@feddit.orgEnglish
            1·
            3 days ago

            Hm… Those options make it seem like like you’re configuring a widget within the panel (like the application launcher and task manager widgets) rather than the panel itself.

            It’s possible that the options we’re looking for were moved in Plasma 6, but I don’t have a Plasma 6 installation at hand, so I can’t look for their new location. Maybe someone else who sees this will be able to.

  • TerHu@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    3 days ago

    if you check the shortcuts section of the settings there should be one option that is maximise and one that is fullscreen. it’s one of those two. i tend to have what you’re looking at on ctrl-meta-f and the true fullscreen you’re trying to achieve on meta-f though i think i set them to those shortcuts 😅

  • Tundra@lemmy.ml
    7·
    4 days ago

    alt + enter (ive never seen this behaviour before with KDE though, very strange)

    • Jesus_666@lemmy.world
      7·
      4 days ago

      My girlfriend has this when she plays Palworld. She switches between two of my computers to do so and on both Palworld will start thinking it has the full screen while the menu bar is still present.

      Usually, alt-tabbing out and back in helps, as does using alt + enter twice.

      Oddly enough, I don’t get this behavior on either computer so it seems to be connected to something user-specific.

      • cevn@lemmy.world
        3·
        3 days ago

        You should be able to get around it with alt f3 then special application settings - apply fullscreen initially

  • Igilq
    3·
    4 days ago

    Depends on game, most games work normally in fullscreen. Also, bar at top isn’t default

  • mobotsar@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    45·
    3 days ago

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