2mo ago

How do I get these bars at the top and bottom to disappear, when playing games?

Recently dipped into the configuration of KDE Plasma and I found something really annoying. These toolbars at the top and bottom dont disappear, when I want to play a game, even tho the game starts and is set to fullscreen mode. Additionally, this also really fucks with my mouse in a way, that I cant use the upper part of menus, because then my mouse snaps out of the window and reappears in the upper toolbar. How do I change this?

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Those are your desktop panels. This might help:
right click a blank area on one of them
Enter Edit Mode
More Options...
Visibility: Windows Can Cover
FWIW, they don't normally show when a game is in full-screen mode. Is it possible you changed a setting from its default, or that the game (or your Wine/Proton version) is using a fake full-screen mode?
- There is no such thing as "more options" when i enter the edit mode. Theres this thing:
  Where i found nothing about visibility, and then theres this thing:
  Where I get to choose between "Foreground, Background, Limiting and hidden"
  None of the option acieves the desired effect
  
  Your screen shots look like you right-clicked the desktop and selected its edit mode. Unfortunately, I don't read German, so I don't know what to make of the text shown there.
  What I'm describing requires right-clicking a blank area of the panel and selecting its edit mode. When you do that, a bar should appear with buttons including Add Widgets, Add Spacer, and More Options.
  Tested in Plasma 5.
alt + enter (ive never seen this behaviour before with KDE though, very strange)
- My girlfriend has this when she plays Palworld. She switches between two of my computers to do so and on both Palworld will start thinking it has the full screen while the menu bar is still present.
  Usually, alt-tabbing out and back in helps, as does using alt + enter twice.
  Oddly enough, I don't get this behavior on either computer so it seems to be connected to something user-specific.
  
  You should be able to get around it with alt f3 then special application settings - apply fullscreen initially
There is a shortcut for Fullscreen, i thunk its F11
For some games I have to alt+tab twice to remove that (deselecting and selecting again)
Depends on game, most games work normally in fullscreen. Also, bar at top isn’t default
if you check the shortcuts section of the settings there should be one option that is maximise and one that is fullscreen. it’s one of those two. i tend to have what you’re looking at on ctrl-meta-f and the true fullscreen you’re trying to achieve on meta-f though i think i set them to those shortcuts 😅
Play at full screen?
- The game is Set to fillscreen mode.
Does pressing right click on top bar does anything ?
Alt+enter afaik
- Doesnt do anything
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