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Wild Penguin

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Registered: 2015-03-19

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[SOLVED]: Panel systreay menus don't auto-close anymore [PLASMA]

Hi,

After a recent update (this week?), context menus from the systray don't auto-close.

I.e. steps to reproduce:

1. left-click an systray icon to adjust volume / see notifications / whatever
2. Do whatever you want (with the menu you've just opened).
3. Move mouse away and continue doing whatever it was you were doing before opening the menu. Try clicking somewhere else.

The problem is, the context menu stays popped up perpetually. It should auto-close, it did auto-close. I need to re-click the icon to close. I find this extremely distracting and unnecessary.

Is this a new bug or some new setting somewhere I'm missing?

This seems to affect only apps with a left-click menu (possibly only KDE/Plasma native, I don't have any non-native with a left-click menu running / can't remember having any installed from the top of my head). The right-click menu does auto-close as it used to.

Last edited by Wild Penguin (2026-07-30 06:32:39)

Wild Penguin

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Registered: 2015-03-19

Posts: 404

Re: [SOLVED]: Panel systreay menus don't auto-close anymore [PLASMA]

There is a pin button  which is a global (not per-application) "keep this menu open" setting. I've somehow missed that.

Marking as [SOLVED]!