Seems related. When the panel is not set to autohide, the notification now goes in front, but the panel becomes unresponsive while it's there.
It's likely because the solution they used (in my opinion*) was kinda kludgy. I'll be opening a bug over on the Cinnamon tracker about this... unless you want to do it, that is.
Any update on this?
linuxmint/Cinnamon#2357 is the most recent update. Supposedly it's fixed. I'm going to install Mint 17.1 and see if Cinnamon 2.4 fixes the issue(s).
The issue is still open on multi-monitor setups. As I mentioned above, I doubt they fixed the cause of the problem, but our specific symptom may have resolved.
Hello @javermot, are you still experiencing this issue on an up to date system?
Closing pending feedback.
Nothing extracted yet.
If the panel is set to automatically hide, Steam notifications (e.g. new inventory item) keep the panel from appearing when hovering over the panel with the mouse. They also block any hot corners, for example to switch between windows/workspaces.
Result: you have to wait 5 seconds until the notification disappears before using the panel. Only tested on the Cinnamon desktop so far.
Tested on:
Linux Mint 17.1 Cinnamon 64-bit
Cinnamon version: 2.4.5
Kernel: Linux 3.18.0-031800-generic (Ubuntu)
Steam client: Built Nov 21 2014, package versions 1416617579
Using Intel graphics