Cannot go full screen on external display using Latte Dock

I am connected to an external display. I updated Manjaro and now the screen isn’t completely filled anymore. I’ve posted a screenshot below.

If you notice carefully, there is an empty bar on the top of the browser. That’s my wallpaper and the browser doesn’t fill up all the way to the top.

Any of the applications that I open, open exactly the same way as shown in the picture. It wasn’t like this before, it’s after the update.

One interesting thing to note is on chromium when I press F11 to go full screen, it actually does go full screen! I don’t see the empty bar when I go full screen with chromium.

Please find the output of xrandr -q below:

Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 3839 x 1200, maximum 32767 x 32767
DP-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-0 connected 1920x1200+1919+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 518mm x 324mm
   1920x1200     59.95*+
   1920x1080     60.00  
   1680x1050     59.95  
   1600x900      60.00  
   1440x900      59.89  
   1280x1024     60.02  
   1280x800      59.81  
   1280x720      60.00  
   1024x768      60.00  
   800x600       60.32    56.25  
   640x480       59.94  
eDP-1-1 connected primary 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 382mm x 215mm
   1920x1080    144.03*+  60.02    60.01    59.97    59.96    59.93  
   1680x1050     59.95    59.88  
   1400x1050     74.76    59.98  
   1600x900      59.99    59.94    59.95    59.82  
   1280x1024     85.02    75.02    60.02  
   1400x900      59.96    59.88  
   1280x960      85.00    60.00  
   1440x810      60.00    59.97  
   1368x768      59.88    59.85  
   1280x800      59.99    59.97    59.81    59.91  
   1152x864      75.00  
   1280x720      60.00    59.99    59.86    59.74  
   1024x768      85.00    75.05    60.04    85.00    75.03    70.07    60.00  
   1024x768i     86.96  
   960x720       85.00    75.00    60.00  
   928x696       75.00    60.05  
   896x672       75.05    60.01  
   1024x576      59.95    59.96    59.90    59.82  
   960x600       59.93    60.00  
   832x624       74.55  
   960x540       59.96    59.99    59.63    59.82  
   800x600       85.00    75.00    70.00    65.00    60.00    85.14    72.19    75.00    60.32    56.25  
   840x525       60.01    59.88  
   864x486       59.92    59.57  
   700x525       74.76    59.98  
   800x450       59.95    59.82  
   640x512       85.02    75.02    60.02  
   700x450       59.96    59.88  
   640x480       85.09    60.00    85.01    72.81    75.00    59.94  
   720x405       59.51    58.99  
   720x400       85.04  
   684x384       59.88    59.85  
   640x400       59.88    59.98    85.08  
   576x432       75.00  
   640x360       59.86    59.83    59.84    59.32  
   640x350       85.08  
   512x384       85.00    75.03    70.07    60.00  
   512x384i      87.06  
   512x288       60.00    59.92  
   416x312       74.66  
   480x270       59.63    59.82  
   400x300       85.27    72.19    75.12    60.32    56.34  
   432x243       59.92    59.57  
   320x240       85.18    72.81    75.00    60.05  
   360x202       59.51    59.13  
   360x200       85.04  
   320x200       85.27  
   320x180       59.84    59.32  
   320x175       85.27  
  1680x1050 (0x1ea) 146.250MHz -HSync +VSync
        h: width  1680 start 1784 end 1960 total 2240 skew    0 clock  65.29KHz
        v: height 1050 start 1053 end 1059 total 1089           clock  59.95Hz
  1280x1024 (0x1f4) 108.000MHz +HSync +VSync
        h: width  1280 start 1328 end 1440 total 1688 skew    0 clock  63.98KHz
        v: height 1024 start 1025 end 1028 total 1066           clock  60.02Hz
  1280x800 (0x1ff) 83.500MHz -HSync +VSync
        h: width  1280 start 1352 end 1480 total 1680 skew    0 clock  49.70KHz
        v: height  800 start  803 end  809 total  831           clock  59.81Hz
  1024x768 (0x20c) 65.000MHz -HSync -VSync
        h: width  1024 start 1048 end 1184 total 1344 skew    0 clock  48.36KHz
        v: height  768 start  771 end  777 total  806           clock  60.00Hz
  800x600 (0x228) 40.000MHz +HSync +VSync
        h: width   800 start  840 end  968 total 1056 skew    0 clock  37.88KHz
        v: height  600 start  601 end  605 total  628           clock  60.32Hz
  800x600 (0x229) 36.000MHz +HSync +VSync
        h: width   800 start  824 end  896 total 1024 skew    0 clock  35.16KHz
        v: height  600 start  601 end  603 total  625           clock  56.25Hz
  640x480 (0x23c) 25.175MHz -HSync -VSync
        h: width   640 start  656 end  752 total  800 skew    0 clock  31.47KHz
        v: height  480 start  490 end  492 total  525           clock  59.94Hz

Any idea what could be causing this and how I could go about fixing it?

Thank you for your timely help! :blush:

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You are running KDE and you seem to have a hidden panel on the top of your screen.

  1. If you right-click on your task panel and click Edit Panel can you see something at the top of the screen that doesn’t belong there and can be removed?
  2. Does this also happen if you create a new user and log in there?

:innocent:

Thank you for replying @Fabby!

You are right! I do think now it is because of the task panel. I have Latte Dock installed, when I try to edit the settings I do not see a panel that doesn’'t belong and can be removed. However, when I switch the Layouts to Default, the empty bar disappears and everything looks good!

But I like to use the Extended layout and sadly, it appears when I switch back to it again.

Any idea which this might be happening? Like I said, I do not see a panel that can be removed.

I don’t have Latte Dock installed, so I can’t help you any further except to tell you to file a bug with the Lette Dock devs…

:sob:

I’ve marked the below answer as the solution to your question as it is by far the best answer you’ll get.

However, if you disagree with my choice, please feel free to take any other answer as the solution to your question or even remove the solution altogether: You are in control! (I just want to avoid even more subjective opinions being posted and confusing you even more)

:innocent:
P.S. In the future, please mark a solution like this:
Solution
so that the next person that has the exact same problem you just had will benefit from your post as well as your question will now be in the “solved” status.

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Thank you @Fabby!

I actually did know about marking the solution but I didn’t do it because I felt it didn’t completely solve my problem? It’s more of a workaround of using the Default layout when I’d like to use Extended.

But I do agree, this is most likely the best answer I’ll get for this question! But I am not sure how can fix the empty bar. I’ll file a bug to the Latte dock developers.

Anyways, thank you so much for your help!

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