Looks like it is a duplicate of #189. But one thing to mention - I,ve tried new xfce4-panel which finally has autohide feature fixing, and it works like a charm with wayfire 0.9. So maybe this lag issue can be handled within the panel itself

Really it looks like issue with transactions. So to repeat this - I let the panel hide. if I immediately try to unide - perfect. But I go to firefox, thunderbird, switch between tabs. Then - try to go to panel mouse to top. I see 1pixel line, and even if I wait enough for panel t fully show up - it is just a dead picture that does not respond to clicking or hovering.

But here is part 2 - I have expose triggered by top corners. So - I move mouse up, see 1 pixel line and move mouse to the corner. Expose activates - and I see the full panel on preview. Expose seemst to flush all those transactions and when I return from expose panel is responsible and working.

So the question - can we do the kind of running all the pending transactions when we unhide the panel?maybe it is not a running flushing or something else I am not an expert in this , but the wy it behaves shows that panel unhides but somewhere in the different reality. So all we need to do is to sync those realities forcefully, itherwise the panel will hide itself again before the picture of a panel is shown on the screen.

Transactions have nothing to do with hiding or unhiding the panel. Transactions concern only toplevel views, not panels.

so bad guess... stil a question why it get stuck and not finishing unhiding. One-pixel line shows up - so panel catches the mouse on top position and started unhiding. But 1 pixel line - and freeze.

My guess would be that somehow the panel is not getting wl_surface.frame_done events so that it does not update its position but it is hard to say for sure.

To loose those events I need to swicth between several windows from moment after the panel is hidden and before I try to get it back. Tried again - panel hides. If I continue working in the window that was active before window id hidden - -it is Ok. Panel opens again no issue. If I click on ivactive window and activate it - it does not activate again,

But then - if i move mouse on top - see nothing but 1 pixel line and quickly change focus to any other window - panel show up again and activates. So somehow panel can not retrieve the focus from other window. It is doing it ok only for the window that was focused at the moment when it was hiding. But if i have switched the focus - it can not do it anymore.

I currently use a patched version of wf-panel which leaves panel 1 pixel above the screen edge, i.e. it doesn't hide entirely, and it works absolutely fine. So I think the problem is somehow related with wayfire not rendering hidden views.

Can you share the patch please.

Can you share the patch please.

Sure

diff --git a/src/util/wf-autohide-window.cpp b/src/util/wf-autohide-window.cpp
index 6e785ee..caff06d 100644
--- a/src/util/wf-autohide-window.cpp
    b/src/util/wf-autohide-window.cpp
@@ -323,7  323,7 @@ bool WayfireAutohidingWindow::should_autohide() const
 
 bool WayfireAutohidingWindow::m_do_hide()
 {
-    y_position.animate(-get_allocated_height());
     y_position.animate(-get_allocated_height()   1.0);
     update_margin();
     return false; // disconnect
 }

thank you, that works.