Hi all, I have recently installed Fedora KDE and I am really liking it, but there is something that is happening that I was hoping someone could help me with.

When I go fullscreen on a video the taskbar is still active in the background. The taskbar is hidden, as it should be, and the video is shown on the entire screen, but if I go to the bottom of the creen with my mouse and click it will click on the taskbar (that is hiding behind the fullscreen) instead of on the video itself. This is true for different video players online, including YouTube, where the video player navigation overlay and the taskbar are in the same location, and thus I cannot really use the video player navigation while in fullscreen mode. This also happens if I just F11 and fullscreen Firefox - so it is not limited to only video players.

If I open a video I have locally in Dragon Player and go fullscreen then the video does not actually appear in fullscreen, instead I can see a bar in the taskbar area stuck on the frame that appeared when going fullscreen, and the rest of the screen is filled with the video actually playing.

Has anyone encountered this before?

EDIT: I just tried VLC and that actually works properly! But this doesnt actually help me understand what else is going on with the other things :S

  • klangcola@reddthat.comEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Sorry, I’ve never experienced anything like that.

    Are you on Wayland or X11? nVidia graphics or Intel/AMD?

    I believe Fedora recently changed to Wayland by default also for KDE. If so try logging out then log in with X11 in the session chooser, see if it makes a difference.

    You can also try right clicking on the panel widget so look for any settings like 'keep visible ’

    • ZarbuvitOPEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Thank you for taking the time to answer!

      So it fixed itself after running some system updates and restarting. I also installed the NVidia drivers, but that caused my system to not boot and I ended up running an older version so I am not sure if the NVidia drivers are installed now or not.

      I did install updates and restart my machine before this and that did not help, so it is not the case of “need to run updates after clean install”, but I guess more updates were needed.

      In case someone stumbles on this in the future I will answer some of your questions anywas: -Fedora 38 KDE uses wayland by default, which is what I used when I had the issues and what I am still using now that it is fixed.

      • As I mentioned I do have an NVidia GPU (610M, this is an older laptop). Not usre if installing the drivers using “sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia” is what helped or not
      • I did not find anything in the settings. I tried looking for “visible”, “fullscreen”, “taskbar” and couldnt find anytthing. I did change the DPI settings to “Scaled by system” but I dont think that did anything.