Cinnamenu: If panel hiding is on, opening with shortcut causes it to be covered by panel

[DokterKaj]

Applet version/Build date

5.4.14

Cinnamon version

6.4.6

Distribution

Mint 22.1

Graphics hardware and driver used

Intel Meteor Lake-P [Intel Arc Graphics] and kernel 6.8.0-51-generic

Applet name and maintainer

Cinnamenu@json @fredcw

What happened?

If auto or intelligent panel hiding is on, opening Cinnamenu with a shortcut (Super by default) makes it appear while touching the edge(s) of the screen, but since the panel also appears, the menu gets partially covered by the panel.

Other information

This issue occurs occasionally with the default Cinnamon menu applet too.

Also, as far as I can remember, this issue was not present in Mint 22 because the panel did not appear when opening Cinnamenu with a shortcut.

[DokterKaj]

Possibly related to linuxmint/cinnamon#11779 and other issues/pulls linked from there

[atiredman]

Just wanted to chime in and say this can occur occasionally with the default Cinnamon menu too. See video for demonstration (look at the spacing between the power button and panel).

cinnamon-2025-01-19T121400-0500.webm

I think you are correct that this is related to linuxmint/cinnamon#11779 I have been having problems with the Cinnamon panel since last November (Cinnamon 6.4.0) related to that pull request.

[cplittlfield]

Sorry to add to the confusion, but I think this observation is relevant: I was going to suggest that turning off the option to display the Panel when the Menu is activated (Super key) might be a work-around, but I have that option turned off in the Menu configuration, and the Panel appears anyway. So obviously there is a problem somewhere in the Menu activation code, and Cinnamenu has inherited it.

And yes, I occasionally see the top of the Menu obscured by the Panel (which is at the top of my screen). But I can't reproduce that behavior at will, which is why I didn't report it. I am glad, however, to learn that it's not just me.

[Jamboxxx]

Quick fix is enabling "use menu animations" as it refreshes the menu causing it to snap into the correct place!