diff --git a/settings/quickshell.nix b/settings/quickshell.nix
index 6c09fb8..6bcc18f 100644
--- a/settings/quickshell.nix
+++ b/settings/quickshell.nix
@@ -2289,9 +2289,9 @@ in
                         : Qt.vector4d(0, 0, 0, 0)
                     // Toast melts into the band it sits against — toastItem
                     // picks the side, this just buries the matching edge.
-                    readonly property real toastTop: toastItem.atBottom || toastItem.floating
+                    readonly property real toastTop: toastItem.atBottom
                         ? toastItem.y + 8 : meltTop
-                    readonly property real toastBot: toastItem.atBottom && !toastItem.floating
+                    readonly property real toastBot: toastItem.atBottom
                         ? meltBot : toastItem.y + 8 + _toastRect.height
                     property vector4d toast: toastItem.visible && _toastRect.width > 0.5
                         ? Qt.vector4d(surfLeftX + _toastRect.width / 2, (toastTop + toastBot) / 2,
@@ -4984,8 +4984,19 @@ in
                     // is taller than the space (yMax < yMin).
                     readonly property real yMin: Theme.frameWidth
                     readonly property real yMax: bar.height - Theme.frameWidth - height
+                    // A visible toast owns its band, so the space a panel has
+                    // to sit in ends short of it. Only the band the toast is
+                    // actually on shrinks; the other one is still the frame.
+                    readonly property bool toastBlocks: toastItem.visible && toastItem.isPrimary
+                    readonly property real lo: toastBlocks && !toastItem.atBottom
+                        ? Math.max(yMin, toastItem.y + toastItem.height + Theme.panelGap) : yMin
+                    readonly property real hi: toastBlocks && toastItem.atBottom
+                        ? Math.min(yMax, toastItem.y - Theme.panelGap - height) : yMax
                     // Where the panel lands when it just tracks its widget.
-                    readonly property real yTracked: Math.max(yMin, Math.min(yMax, dropdownY - height / 2))
+                    // hi < lo means the panel is taller than what the toast
+                    // leaves — nothing to be done, so it takes the frame and
+                    // the toast rides over it for its five seconds.
+                    readonly property real yTracked: Math.max(lo, Math.min(hi, dropdownY - height / 2))
                     x: Theme.barWidth
                     // Snap to whichever band is within reach, and only then.
                     // Proximity rather than an alignTop/alignBottom flag per
@@ -4994,10 +5005,22 @@ in
                     // stops — no flag to remember to flip. A panel taller than
                     // the screen has yMax < yMin, so yTracked pins to yMin and
                     // the first branch catches it.
+                    // Snapping still tests against the FRAME, not against a
+                    // toast-shortened edge: a panel stopping above a toast is
+                    // meant to read as floating clear of it, not fused to it.
                     y: Math.round(
                         yTracked - yMin <= Theme.snapDist ? yMin
                         : yMax - yTracked <= Theme.snapDist ? Math.max(yMin, yMax)
                         : yTracked)
+
+                    // A toast arriving under an open menu moves it. Match the
+                    // chrome's morph, or the content jumps while the surface
+                    // it sits in slides. Off while closed so opening still
+                    // places the panel instantly.
+                    Behavior on y {
+                        enabled: dropdown.open
+                        NumberAnimation { duration: Theme.animMorph; easing.type: Easing.OutExpo }
+                    }
                     width: fullWidth + 4
                     // +24, not +16: the shader insets the panel 8px top and
                     // bottom, so +16 left the panel edge flush with the content
@@ -7610,34 +7633,13 @@ in
                     // Flush to that band (it melts into it), never centred on
                     // the clock — a short toast floating mid-column reads as a
                     // stray card instead of a surface growing out of the frame.
-                    readonly property real baseY: atBottom
+                    // The toast never moves for a menu: it is the thing the
+                    // eye goes to, and a card that slides around the column
+                    // depending on which dropdown happens to be open reads as
+                    // a glitch. Dropdowns yield to it instead (see BarDropdown).
+                    y: Math.round(atBottom
                         ? bar.height - Theme.frameWidth - height - 8
-                        : Theme.frameWidth + 8
-                    // Dropdowns share this column, so a toast arriving under an
-                    // open one lands on top of it. Step away from the band far
-                    // enough to clear the panel, capped by the room left before
-                    // the opposite frame — a full-height panel pushes the toast
-                    // as far as it goes and no further, rather than off screen.
-                    readonly property real dodge: {
-                        const d = bar.activeDropdown;
-                        if (!d || !d.visible) return 0;
-                        const want = atBottom
-                            ? (d.y + d.height + Theme.panelGap) - baseY
-                            : (baseY + height + Theme.panelGap) - d.y;
-                        const room = atBottom
-                            ? baseY - Theme.frameWidth - 8
-                            : bar.height - Theme.frameWidth - 8 - height - baseY;
-                        return Math.max(0, Math.min(want, room));
-                    }
-                    // Once it has stepped away it is no longer against the
-                    // band, so the shader draws it as a free-standing card.
-                    readonly property bool floating: dodge > 0
-                    y: Math.round(atBottom ? baseY - dodge : baseY + dodge)
-
-                    // Opening a dropdown under a live toast moves it; slide.
-                    Behavior on y {
-                        NumberAnimation { duration: Theme.animContent; easing.type: Easing.OutCubic }
-                    }
+                        : Theme.frameWidth + 8)
                     width: _toastRect.width + 4
                     height: _toastRect.height + 16