diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 6b94772..81b2237 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -2405,7 +2405,9 @@ now — they are listed so they are not mistaken for anything else:
   on, and neither offers a control that changes the configuration — each heading has an `[edit]` button
   to switch to the full pane, and back. Dragging a signal onto a plot still works while locked — filling
   plots is what the list is for, not configuration — and a locked row can be dragged from anywhere on it,
-  the colour chip included. A **first run** (no session file for that source) comes up
+  the colour chip included. In a window too narrow to show both, where the sidebar is *overlaid on* the
+  plot, the sidebar steps aside for the length of the drag so there is something under the pointer to drop
+  onto. A **first run** (no session file for that source) comes up
   unlocked, because configuring the host is what a first run is for. Each pane's heading also carries its **own switch**, the same control as the
   header bar's button — clicking either moves both — because a pane that is *disabled* while its
   feature is off is a pane whose controls you would otherwise have to leave to turn it back on. The
diff --git a/docs/claude/invariants-gtk-and-chrome.md b/docs/claude/invariants-gtk-and-chrome.md
index b2340bb..2385afc 100644
--- a/docs/claude/invariants-gtk-and-chrome.md
+++ b/docs/claude/invariants-gtk-and-chrome.md
@@ -188,6 +188,13 @@ Part of [CLAUDE.md](../../CLAUDE.md). These are rules that cost a defect to lear
   **tooltip and accessible name** from the page's name, then hides the empty label that would otherwise
   leave the icon off-centre. An icon-only pill is still a named control for a screen reader, and
   `switcher: … pills=2 labels=0 names=2` is the reading for all three facts at once.
+- **An *overlaid* sidebar covers the plot, so a drag out of it has nowhere to land.** `collapsed` in an
+  `AdwOverlaySplitView` means the sidebar sits *on* the plot rather than beside it: the pointer is over the
+  list, never over a drop target, and a signal can be dragged but not dropped. `row_drag_sidebar()` hides
+  the sidebar on `drag-begin` and restores it on `drag-end` — only when collapsed, because side by side the
+  plot is already visible and hiding the list the drag started in would be startling. `pane drag: sidebar
+  hidden for the drag=1 restored after it=1` is the reading; the state is forced collapsed the way the
+  sidebar probe forces it.
 - **A stock icon name has to be one *Adwaita* has, and a blank button is the failure mode.** The two
   panes' `[edit]` buttons are `document-edit-symbolic` (the pencil: edit) and `object-select-symbolic`
   (the check: done). The done one was `emblem-ok-symbolic`, which breeze ships and **Adwaita does not** —
diff --git a/docs/claude/probe-readings.md b/docs/claude/probe-readings.md
index 3245bcd..50460a6 100644
--- a/docs/claude/probe-readings.md
+++ b/docs/claude/probe-readings.md
@@ -1142,12 +1142,19 @@ library measures and draws the rect in tests of its own.
 ## `panes:` — the locked and configuration modes
 
 ```
+[udpscope]   pane drag: sidebar hidden for the drag=1 restored after it=1
 [udpscope]   pane edits: locked=document-edit-symbolic(ok) config=object-select-symbolic(ok)
 [udpscope]   panes: trigger=locked signals=locked body_visible=0 summary='signal: square | condition: window, falling | level: 0.3 .. 0.6 | mode: single | noise band: 0.2 | pre-trigger: 20 % | hold-off: 1000 ms'
 [udpscope]   panes: trigger=config signals=config body_visible=1 summary=''
 [udpscope]   panes: the same line as the probe found it: 'mode: stream (trigger off)'
 ```
 
+**`pane drag:`** is a drag begun through the *source* with the split view forced into its **overlaid**
+state, which is what a window with no room beside the plot produces. Both must read `1`: with the sidebar
+covering the plot there is no drop target under the pointer, so a drag out of the signal list is
+*impossible* rather than merely awkward, and `row_drag_sidebar()` steps the sidebar aside for the length of
+the drag and puts it back after. `hidden=0` is an overlaid drag that can never land anywhere.
+
 **`pane edits:`** is the two `[edit]` buttons in each mode, by name and verdict, and it exists because of
 a real defect: the "done" icon was `emblem-ok-symbolic`, which **Adwaita does not have** (breeze does), so
 the button that leaves configuration mode was blank — and a blank icon button is invisible in every other
@@ -1164,7 +1171,10 @@ its pane.
 - **With trigger mode off the summary is one line**: `mode: stream (trigger off)`. The four lines below
   describe a trigger that is not running, so quoting them would describe nothing. The dump carries the line
   twice — once as the probe found it and once at the end — because only a run whose *session* has the
-  trigger off shows the stream form, and a run whose session has it on shows the settings.
+  trigger off shows the stream form, and a run whose session has it on shows the settings. **The pair is
+  also the refresh test**: the probe toggles the trigger, so a run whose session has it off must show
+  `stream (trigger off)` in the line it found and the settings in the live one. Both showing `stream` is a
+  compact view that did not refresh when the mode changed, which is a defect this pair caught.
 - **`trigger panel sensitive …=1` is now a guard, not a state.** The trigger's body is never disabled —
   a trigger is configured before it is switched on — so this reads `1` always, and a `0` means the
   settings have been made unreachable again. The *cursors'* body is disabled with the cursors, and that
diff --git a/src/ui.cpp b/src/ui.cpp
index 1a9e4d3..eb9a06b 100644
--- a/src/ui.cpp
+++ b/src/ui.cpp
@@ -4436,6 +4436,25 @@ void on_pane_edit_clicked(GtkButton* button, gpointer user) {
   apply_pane_lock(*app);
 }
 
+/// Hides the sidebar for the length of a drag, when it is *overlaid*, and restores it after.
+///
+/// With the split view collapsed the sidebar covers the plot -- that is what collapsed means -- so a drag
+/// that starts in the signal list has nowhere to land: the pointer is over the sidebar and never over a
+/// drop target, and the drag is impossible rather than merely awkward. Side by side nothing is done: the
+/// plot is already visible, and hiding the list the drag started in would be startling.
+void row_drag_sidebar(App& app, bool dragging) {
+  if (app.side_view == nullptr) return;
+  AdwOverlaySplitView* split = ADW_OVERLAY_SPLIT_VIEW(app.side_view);
+  if (dragging) {
+    if (!adw_overlay_split_view_get_collapsed(split)) return;
+    app.sidebar_hidden_for_drag = adw_overlay_split_view_get_show_sidebar(split) != FALSE;
+    if (app.sidebar_hidden_for_drag) adw_overlay_split_view_set_show_sidebar(split, FALSE);
+  } else if (app.sidebar_hidden_for_drag) {
+    app.sidebar_hidden_for_drag = false;
+    adw_overlay_split_view_set_show_sidebar(split, TRUE);
+  }
+}
+
 void run_app_action(App& app, AppAction action) {
   const auto toggle = [](GtkWidget* button) {
     if (button == nullptr) return;
@@ -5782,7 +5801,9 @@ int run_ui(int argc, char** argv, const Config& cfg, ScopeModel& model, Acquisit
                 app.window_limit_s);
     {
       GtkIconTheme* theme = gtk_icon_theme_get_for_display(gdk_display_get_default());
-      std::printf("[udpscope]   pane edits: locked=%s(%s) config=%s(%s)\n",
+      std::printf("[udpscope]   pane drag: sidebar hidden for the drag=%d restored after it=%d\n",
+                app.dbg_drag_hid_sidebar, app.dbg_drag_restored_sidebar);
+    std::printf("[udpscope]   pane edits: locked=%s(%s) config=%s(%s)\n",
                   app.dbg_pane_edit_icon.c_str(),
                   gtk_icon_theme_has_icon(theme, app.dbg_pane_edit_icon.c_str()) ? "ok" : "MISSING",
                   app.dbg_pane_view_icon.c_str(),
diff --git a/src/ui_app.hpp b/src/ui_app.hpp
index 38ad53e..a794b57 100644
--- a/src/ui_app.hpp
+++ b/src/ui_app.hpp
@@ -261,6 +261,9 @@ struct App {
   /// True while `sync_panel_switches()` is writing the switches: setting a `GtkSwitch` emits its own
   /// `notify::active`, and without this the program's own write would come back as a click.
   bool panel_switch_sync = false;
+  /// True while a drag has the overlaid sidebar hidden: what it was showing before, so `drag-end` puts it
+  /// back rather than guessing.
+  bool sidebar_hidden_for_drag = false;
   /// The channel a session's trigger names, until `rebuild_trigger_signals()` can resolve it: the
   /// file stores a *name* and the trigger needs an index into the acquired channels, which do not
   /// exist until the stream has been described. Empty means "nothing pending".
@@ -822,6 +825,9 @@ struct App {
   int dbg_signal_rows = 0;
   /// How many rows of the list carry a `GtkDragSource`: `rows - 1`, the divider not being draggable.
   int dbg_signal_drag_sources = -1;
+  /// The drag-with-an-overlaid-sidebar pair: the sidebar hid for the drag, and came back after it.
+  int dbg_drag_hid_sidebar = -1;
+  int dbg_drag_restored_sidebar = -1;
   std::size_t dbg_signal_plain = 0;
   int dbg_side_column_after_hide = 1;
   std::string dbg_mode_triggered;
@@ -1462,6 +1468,10 @@ const char* trigger_mode_text(TriggerMode m);
 TriggerMode trigger_mode_from_text(const std::string& s);
 /// The panel's controls from the model, and the session's trigger into both.
 void write_trigger_widgets(App& app);
+/// Hides the sidebar for the length of a drag when it is *overlaid*, and puts it back after. With the
+/// split view collapsed the sidebar covers the plot, so a drag that starts in the signal list has nowhere
+/// to land: the pointer is over the sidebar, not over a drop target.
+void row_drag_sidebar(App& app, bool dragging);
 /// The compact line the trigger pane shows while it is locked, and the lock itself: the panes'
 /// bodies, their [edit] buttons and the signal list's rows all follow from `trigger_locked` and
 /// `signals_locked`.
diff --git a/src/ui_probe.cpp b/src/ui_probe.cpp
index aa0f852..ef79670 100644
--- a/src/ui_probe.cpp
+++ b/src/ui_probe.cpp
@@ -103,6 +103,35 @@ gboolean exit_probe_step3(gpointer user) {
     }
     a->dbg_signal_drag_sources = sources;
   }
+  // A drag out of an *overlaid* sidebar: the sidebar has to step aside or the drop has nowhere to land.
+  // The state is forced the way the sidebar probe forces it -- collapsed is what a window with no room
+  // beside the plot produces -- and the drag is begun through the *source*, so the handler is the one a
+  // real drag reaches.
+  if (a->side_view != nullptr && a->signal_list != nullptr) {
+    AdwOverlaySplitView* split = ADW_OVERLAY_SPLIT_VIEW(a->side_view);
+    GtkWidget* row = gtk_widget_get_first_child(a->signal_list);
+    adw_overlay_split_view_set_collapsed(split, TRUE);
+    adw_overlay_split_view_set_show_sidebar(split, TRUE);
+    if (row != nullptr) {
+      GListModel* controllers = gtk_widget_observe_controllers(row);
+      const guint n = controllers != nullptr ? g_list_model_get_n_items(controllers) : 0;
+      for (guint i = 0; i < n; ++i) {
+        GObject* c = G_OBJECT(g_list_model_get_item(controllers, i));
+        if (GTK_IS_DRAG_SOURCE(c)) {
+          g_signal_emit_by_name(c, "drag-begin", nullptr);
+          a->dbg_drag_hid_sidebar =
+              adw_overlay_split_view_get_show_sidebar(split) == FALSE ? 1 : 0;
+          row_drag_sidebar(*a, false);
+          a->dbg_drag_restored_sidebar =
+              adw_overlay_split_view_get_show_sidebar(split) != FALSE ? 1 : 0;
+        }
+        g_object_unref(c);
+      }
+    }
+    // Left as the window's own width decides, so the readings taken before this are the ones that stand.
+    adw_overlay_split_view_set_collapsed(split, FALSE);
+    adw_overlay_split_view_set_show_sidebar(split, TRUE);
+  }
   // The panes' own switches, and *both* directions of the sync: the header bar's trigger button is
   // flipped here and the pane's switch has to follow, then the cursors' switch is driven from the
   // pane and the button is what has to follow. Both are read back after the fact, so the two pairs in
diff --git a/src/ui_signals.cpp b/src/ui_signals.cpp
index de18219..1778aef 100644
--- a/src/ui_signals.cpp
+++ b/src/ui_signals.cpp
@@ -457,6 +457,17 @@ void rebuild_signal_list(App& app, const std::vector<SignalInfo>& signals) {
     g_signal_connect_data(source, "prepare", G_CALLBACK(on_drag_prepare), ctx,
                           [](gpointer data, GClosure*) { delete static_cast<DragContext*>(data); },
                           G_CONNECT_DEFAULT);
+    // A drag out of an *overlaid* sidebar would have nowhere to land (see `row_drag_sidebar()`), so the
+    // sidebar steps out of the way for as long as the drag lasts.
+    g_signal_connect(source, "drag-begin", G_CALLBACK(+[](GtkDragSource*, GdkDrag*, gpointer user) {
+                       row_drag_sidebar(*static_cast<App*>(user), true);
+                     }),
+                     &app);
+    g_signal_connect(source, "drag-end",
+                     G_CALLBACK(+[](GtkDragSource*, GdkDrag*, gboolean, gpointer user) {
+                       row_drag_sidebar(*static_cast<App*>(user), false);
+                     }),
+                     &app);
     gtk_widget_add_controller(row, GTK_EVENT_CONTROLLER(source));
 
     gtk_list_box_append(GTK_LIST_BOX(list), row);
diff --git a/src/ui_trigger.cpp b/src/ui_trigger.cpp
index e6222b5..6ed5e92 100644
--- a/src/ui_trigger.cpp
+++ b/src/ui_trigger.cpp
@@ -413,8 +413,10 @@ void on_trigger_toggled(GtkToggleButton* button, gpointer user) {
   // Arming is a *runtime* control: with trigger mode off there is no engine to arm, and the button is the
   // one part of this pane that is not a setting. (The body itself stays live -- see above.)
   if (app->arm_button != nullptr) gtk_widget_set_sensitive(app->arm_button, on);
-  // The pane's own switch shows the same state, whichever of the two was clicked.
+  // The pane's own switch shows the same state, whichever of the two was clicked, and the compact line
+  // changes shape with it: with trigger mode off it says "stream" and nothing else.
   sync_panel_switches(*app);
+  sync_trigger_summary(*app);
 }
 
 /// The way out of trigger mode, from inside the panel that froze the view: it is