Bottom panel only shows application launcher until I open an application

Running Bazzite 41.
It is hard to get a screenshot of this but when I first turn on my computer only the application launcher will show in the bottom panel until I actually open something at which point the panel expands to show all of the applications I have pinned to it and the widgets on its right side. In a way it is kind of cool but not sure why it is doing this. For all I know I changed some setting to cause this that I don't remember. Does anyone know how I could fix this?
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