Blur Cinnamon makes panels disappear on 3D alt-tab effects

[sea2horses]

Extension version/Build date

2.5.0

Cinnamon version

6.4.8

Distribution

Mint 22.2

Graphics hardware and driver used

Intel Iris XE Graphics and intel-driver i915

Extension name and maintainer

BlurCinnamon@klangman @klangman

What happened?

When alt-tabbing too quickly using 3D alt-tab effects like timeline, Blur Cinnamon makes panels completely disappear. To fix it, alt-tab again waiting around a second for the effect to kick in, then the panels will reappear when tabbing out.

Other information

[klangman]

I can recreate the issue. Thanks for the report. I'll work on a fix.

[klangman]

OK.. I think I have a fix for this. I'll do some more testing to make sure it doesn't break anything else.

[sea2horses]

Hello, how is this shaping up? Is a fix possible?

[klangman]

Ya, the fix works. It's been committed to my Github version: https://github.com/klangman/BlurCinnamon

I should have pointed out that you can avoid the problem by disabling the "Hide panels while using the Coverflow/Timeline Alt-Tab switchers" option. It's found in the Blur Cinnamon settings, "Component specific settings" tab with the "Show settings for component" drop-down list set to "Alt-Tab".

I have been fixing other issues and adding some new features before pushing Version 2.6.0 to Cinnamon Spices. I hope to get that done next week sometime. At which time your fix will be available with a simple upgrade from the Extensions Cinnamon application.

Sorry for the delay.

[sea2horses]

Great! Thanks for the follow-up! I'll disable the Hide Panels option while the fix gets pushed, thanks a lot!