Plasma menu now persistent?

WetGeek

Since one of the recent updates, not sure which one, the menu in my Plasma panel has stopped disappearing when it loses focus, and I have to click again on its icon in order to dismiss it. Sometimes that's not very important, but depending on what I'm doing, at other times it's very annoying.

Has anyone else noticed this? Does anyone know how to get it to revert to its previous behavior? Requiring users to locate the icon and click it a second time seems unnecessary to me.

Staudey

Hmm, can't reproduce this on my Plasma VM. The menu closes as soon (or with a small delay) after losing focus (i.e. when I click into another window, open a new app, etc.)

WetGeek

Staudey can't reproduce this on my Plasma VM

Thanks for checking that. That's what I had hoped the answer would be. That means there's probably something I can do that will fix it. I just need to figure out what that might be.

I can understand why, when I click the menu's Hibernate command, after it wakes up the next time the menu is still present. That could just be a race condition that favors the hibernate command. But it also happens at times that have nothing to do with hibernating. That would tend to discredit the race condition theory. It happened just now, in fact, when I opened the menu and then returned back here to the Vivaldi window.

It looks like I have another mystery to solve.

Lucien_Lachance

dont plasma menus have that little clickable pin icon that makes it behave like that?

Staudey

Lucien_Lachance You're right! There is indeed a little pin option in the upper right of the menu:

WetGeek

Staudey You're right! There is indeed a little pin option in the upper right of the menu

Indeed there is, and I just unpinned it. Now the menu politely disappears when I'm done with it. Mystery solved! Now I'm just wondering how it got set. I can't think of any reason I would have clicked there.

WetGeek

You know, in soccer, basketball, and probably other sports as well, there are goals, and also assists. I was happy to credit @Lucien_Lachance a goal for providing the best answer, but I think there should also be some way of giving @Staudey credit for an assist. I guess maybe just saying "thanks" is the best we can expect to do.