Panel disappears when used with Just Perfection

[gianmarcotoso]

I've found an issue when using this extension alongside Just Perfection, specifically when hiding the panel from the Desktop mode and showing it only in overview mode.

When Blur My Shell is enabled, everything appears to work regularly at first, but after a while the panel in overview mode disappears, but only visually: clicking where the items are supposed to be brings up their respective popups.

I haven't been able to pinpoint exactly when the panel disappears (I'll update the issue if I find out), but I've noticed that disabling and re-enabling Blur My Shell brings back the panel for a while. Also, this did not happen before the latest update. I should also note that I've tried disabling the "Panel Blur" option to no avail.

Is there some logs I can share to help with this?

[user1-github]

I have the same issue since the latest update and I use Just Perfection specifically to disable the panel on the desktop and keep it enabled in overview.

But in my case the panel in overview disappears after each reboot and then if I disable and enable Blur my Shell, it becomes visible without disappearing anymore until the next reboot.

Maybe the reason it randomly disappears for you is because you've changed something else in Just Perfection, apart from disabling the panel on the desktop?

[aunetx]

Thanks for the heads-up, I will try with just perfection! I'm using hidetopbar with no problem but I guess they do not use the same hiding technique

[XolbyNax]

Summary

3 or 4 days ago, after a sudo pacman -Syu, the panel became invisible, but still interactable in the overview. When deactivating the panel in the visibility menu, it also is invisible in the overview, even though it should be visible.

Just by disabling Blur my Shell the panel returns without needing to log out. Enabling it again doesn't make the panel disappear until logging out or restarting.

Steps to reproduce

Go to visibility menu, disable panel toggle, enable Blur my Shell extension, log out, log in.

What is the current bug behavior?

Panel is invisible in desktop and overview, with only the searchbar remaining.

What is the expected correct behavior?

Panel is invisible in desktop, and visible in overview.

Other Enabled Extensions

I had Blur my Shell with default settings, and this is the conflicting extension. I also had wiggle, but it doesn't do anything.

Versions

Blur my Shell v60 Just perfection v28 Gnome 46 Arch with kernel Linux 6.8.5-arch1-1

[XolbyNax]

I was told by the Just Perfection dev from gitlab to come report it here too, so, here i am. Shame I wasn't the first here too.

[XolbyNax]

Thanks for the heads-up, I will try with just perfection! I'm using hidetopbar with no problem but I guess they do not use the same hiding technique

Big boss, can you have a word with the other fella and see if you can figure something out? https://gitlab.gnome.org/jrahmatzadeh

[XolbyNax]

Thanks for the heads-up, I will try with just perfection! I'm using hidetopbar with no problem but I guess they do not use the same hiding technique

Btw, I am using your default config for BmS, and I deactivated all other extensions, but hidetopbar doesn't do anything for me. I have tried logging of and in. X Server 1.21.1.13 X Protocol Version 11 Gnome 46 Arch with kernel Linux 6.8.5-arch1-1

[gianmarcotoso]

Thanks for the heads-up, I will try with just perfection! I'm using hidetopbar with no problem but I guess they do not use the same hiding technique

I've been able to reproduce it consistently:

• Load a Gnome Session with Just Perfection and Blur My Shell enabled
• Disable the panel in desktop mode and enable it in overview from within Just Perfection's options
• Lock the screen
• Unlock the screen and enter the password
• See the panel disappear from overview
• Disable Blur My Shell -> the panel reappears
• Lock the screen, repeat

[jrahmatzadeh]

@aunetx Just Perfection extension removes the panel from the layout and moves it to the overview.

When the panel is only available in overview (PANEL_HIDE_MODE.DESKTOP) it gives a little margin-top to the first element in overview.

Also, these CSS styles are getting applied to the Shell when the panel is hidden.

As I explained here, we made it like this to make it more touch friendly.

Let me know if you need more info on this or if you need specific update on the Just Perfection extension to fix the compatibility issue.

[aunetx]

@jrahmatzadeh thanks for the informations! I should be able to fix this in blur-my-shell, but I have not so much time right now, maybe in some days!

Waiting that, I guess affected users should be able to just disable panel blur and everything should be working right (minus the panel being blurred of course)

[gianmarcotoso]

Waiting that, I guess affected users should be able to just disable panel blur and everything should be working right (minus the panel being blurred of course)

I have tried disabling panel blur but it does not appear to have any effect, so the bug probably comes from some other code path. Anyway, thank you! :)

[mgamigo]

Just to add to the discussion, I am currently suffering this bug too, but just disabling and reenabling the extension (Blur my Shell) fixes the problem for me. So I guess is not a mayor conflict between both extensions.

[ntruter42]

Any progress on this? I had to create a workaround in the meantime.

I have to run a script which restarts Blur My Shell every 30 minutes in order to keep the panel visible, because I couldn't find out what stopped it periodically. I had an issue initially, because crontab didn't support files with a dot in it in Ubuntu, so I had to rename it to startup_script. It kinda works now, but it's a terrible workaround.

*/30 * * * * /bin/bash/ /home/ntruter42/startup_script

Only problem now is that every 30 minutes, my system has a 1 second "hiccup" (momentary freeze) to restart the extension. Anyone know of a better workaround for Ubuntu, while we wait for it to be fixed?

[mgamigo]

@ntruter42 , why run the script every 30 minutes and not just at startup? You can just add the script to the startup using gnome tweaks. Can you share the code for restarting the extension? I would like to try this solution.

[ntruter42]

@mgamigo , it's not much, just:

gnome-extensions disable blur-my-shell@aunetx
gnome-extensions enable blur-my-shell@aunetx

I initially tried to run it only at startup, but I noticed that it still occasionally disappears after a while. I can't figure out what causes it to disappear. I guess I could run the script every hour instead of every 30 minutes.

[fxzxmicah]

My panel hasn't disappeared, but there are indeed compatibility issues.

[user1-github]

@aunetx Any news regarding the fix to this bug?

I've also noticed a duplicate.

[aunetx]

@user1-github sorry for the delay! I've just looked again into it, it should be quite simple to fix this actually :) so maybe in a few minutes that will be done!

[aunetx]

That's done! I've fixed it in last commit, I will create a new release soon (maybe after fixing some other bugs because else I could release things every hour hehe)

@jrahmatzadeh by the way, I noticed that the margin-top calculation seems wrong when the monitor has scaling (or at least clearly is on my 200% scaled monitor); you may need to divide marginTop by the scaling of the monitor (the style applied for me is 58px but it seems normal at 26px; I guess the CSS pixel count is made aware of the scaling but this._main.panel.height is not).

[jrahmatzadeh]

@jrahmatzadeh by the way, I noticed that the margin-top calculation seems wrong when the monitor has scaling (or at least clearly is on my 200% scaled monitor); you may need to divide marginTop by the scaling of the monitor (the style applied for me is 58px but it seems normal at 26px; I guess the CSS pixel count is made aware of the scaling but this._main.panel.height is not).

Fixed.