Just updated to latest bits on my Dell XPS 9520 laptop & the KDE panel is no longer auto-hiding.
I tried changing the mode to always visible then back to auto-hide but no hiding behavior is manifested - panel is visible all of the time.
Edit: Hmm, just noticed this window is now behind the panel so it seems that the setting is “Windows go below” even though I hadn’t selected it. It seems that nothing I do puts it into auto-hide mode.
Behavior was correct before updating to latest bits as of a few minutes ago.
If I can jam 2 issues into one post (probably not) - since F40 I’ve noticed that my keyboard light setting isn’t maintained across boots, or even sleeps - I have to keep setting it with the fn+F5 key (on this particular laptop, obviously).
Yeah, you should have one topic per thread. It avoids confusion that way.
Open a second thread for the keyboard light.
Very weird: I just added a keyboard shortcut using System Settings, didn’t change anything else in the system, and suddenly my panel is auto-hiding again!
I guess this is “solved” but why it suddenly started working when changing the setting to the various options resulting in no behavioral change is completely unknown.
I believe I did update to a few more recent binaries after the original post was submitted, but the incorrect behavior continued after the update.
Presumably something in System Settings → Apply went through and updated settings other than the keyboard shortcut that I was specifically adding.
I wonder if my keyboard backlight issue is now similarly “fixed”?