Disable contextual panel from displaying in Lucid

Hi ​@ssravjee and ​@Raymundo.Villafuerte, thanks for leaving your honest feedback here. I can understand how this impacts your work, and I appreciate you letting us know how you feel about this feature.

Our product teams continue to review feedback in this space of the community as they research new features and enhancements. 

Thanks for your re-affirmation on this topic. So, when will this feature be coming live Q1 or Q2 of 2026 ?

Hi ​@ssravjee, at this time, I don’t have an update on this specific feature but I appreciate you letting us know just how valuable this is to you.

This thread remains the best place for news on this, and we’ll update this thread with any new information!

Hi, I really enjoy lucid and have moved away from other products because it was so good but I don’t understand how this feature seems to evade the product team for 3 years. Especially when the fix seems incredibly simple, provide a toggle setting “Disable automatic contextual panel” and if this is ticked just don’t open the panel.

What really baffles me is that you get basically everything else right providing a great easy to use tool that looks clean and doesn’t have noise a lot of other tools have but then the panel keeps opening. Like what’s the product mindset here, “Lucid knows you need the panel so it has to open”.

This has been frustrating me for months and seeing that this has been known for 3 years and little more than a band-aid has been applied doesn’t fill me with confidence. Anyway like I said the product is great and I hope you can fix this minor but very frustrating issue, it’s especially egregious when working on smaller screens. 

Hi ​@Wouter, thank you for your honest and detailed feedback. I can certainly understand your frustration and how it would impact your experience, and I appreciate you adding the context for this for our product teams to review. 

Hi, when can we expect this irritating Contextual Panel hide &seek will continue. Almost everyone I work with getting frustrated with this behavior of lucid diagram.

Thanks for checking in on this thread and letting us know about your experience ​@ChandanPatra. I certainly understand your feedback here. Unfortunately at this time, I don’t have a specific timeline or update to provide, but we appreciate you sharing your honest insights in this thread.

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When working with large charts containing many elements, this contextual popup became so annoying that I disabled it by adding "lucid.app##body lucid-editor-gui-right-column" and “lucid.app##.right-column-spacer” to my ad blocker filter list.

Hopefully, the toggle for enabling/disabling this functionality in the standard way will be implemented.

UPD: updated filters - forgot about the spacer.