Plasma 6 autohide slow: [Feature not a bug]

[jesnow]

You may have noticed that since switching to Plasma 6, auto-unhiding the panel has become painfully slow. This is a fact. The panel takes up to an entire second to show itself. This makes your lightning desktop system feel like a pentium 1. Bravo KDE, you really know how to make your users feel good about upgrading.

But it turns out this is a *feature* not a bug, but the solution is not obvious. There is nothing to see in "Configure Icons-Only Task manager".

The reason is that people have been asking for over a decade to be able to deliberately set the auto-unhide delay time, and the feature request bug was fixed in plasma 6. But it pertains not to the task manager, but to screen edges.

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=267277

So go to System Settings -> mouse and touchpad -> screen edges

Turn down the "Activation delay" and you're back to normal.

Cheers,
Jon.

[Goverp]

Interesting: my system has activation delay of 150 ms, and seems fine. I never set it, so I suppose it's some default either new in Plasma:6 or inherited from somewhere in Plasma:5.
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Greybeard

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