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Hi all,

I want the "control panel" (the panel at the lower side of the screen) to disappear as fast as possible when the mouse pointer leaves that area.

I've configured the control panel to auto-hide "immediately", animation off, come to foreground when lower border of the window is hit.

What I observe: When I hit the lower border, the panel appers immediately, fine, but when the cursor leaves the panel area, it takes about a second for the panel to vanish. One second - that's IMHO annoyingly slow!

Is there anything I can do about it, to make it disappear really immediately or at least as fast as it appears? Meanwhile I even think about hacking the code. I may try to do it if all else fails but of course I'd like to try "cheaper" solutions first.

Any hints / pointers / etc? If this this is the wrong place to ask, please tell me where to go.

Regards & TIA
Dirk

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Originally posted by bram85
It works OK here.

Do you mean the control panel hides itself very fast (say, within a tenth of a second) or do you mean you are satisfied as it is?

To clarify: If you move the mouse pointer in a circle that touches the bottom of the screen as fast as you can, how long do you see the control panel?
[_] About a second? (That's what I see.)
[_] About a tenth of a second or less? (That's what I want to see.)
I want to see it for no longer than a tenth of a second after the mouse pointer left the panel area (about half an inch) at the bottom of the screen. It should flash up and vanish IMMEDIATELY.

Oh and: How fast is your machine? This is running an AMD sempron at 1.6GHz.

Thanks for checking!

Hmmmmm....
Just what could be wrong here?

I'm running a SuSE 10.1, KDE version 3.5.1 Level "a" (read from the KDE control center)

Any idea for what I could look? I also tried fiddling with autoraising, but this only affects "real" windows, not the control panel.

Any ideas? Could I perhaps hand-craft something? Or may I have accidently/unwillingly broken some config?

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Originally posted by Rinse
Wel, i use 10.1 with kde 3.5.5, but that should not matter.
Do you use a background in the panel? Mine is switched off..

Yes, I did: /opt/kde3/share/apps/kicker/wallpapers/default.png
But switching it off did not make it noticable faster. Maybe a tiny bit, but it's still about a second. Anyway, Thanks! I leave it off. Now everything in the "backround frame" is unchecked.

Still checked in the "appearence"(*) submenu: "symbol effects"(*) and "short info hints"(*), both in the topmost frame

(*): translated from german, I hope I get the names correct.