KDE panel showing above some fullscreen applications

[Alex Schuster]

Dotan Cohen writes:

> KDE panel showing above some fullscreen applications, namely Virtual
> Box in full-screen mode. I therefore set the panel as "Windows Can
> Cover" but this quickly becomes annoying with other applications. I
> therefore tried giving Virtual Box full-screen capability from the KDE
> "Configure Window Behaviour..." options, but that for some reason
> makes Virtual Box the size of my screen, but it is displayed offset on
> the screen to make room for the vertical KDE panel, and thus I am
> missing the KDE panel's width from Virtual Box on the opposite side as
> it is off-screen!
> 
> Are there any other fixes for the KDE panel intermittently appearing
> over a full-screen Virtual Box? This is KDE 4.7 on Kubuntu 11.10,
> however I have had this issue with earlier KDE versions as well.

What about a workaround: Start a 2nd desktop session with a
lightweight window manager. Run VirtualBox there, and switch with
Ctrl-Alt-F7/8.

	Wonko
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