Topic: [SOLVED] Xfce4-panel background settings..
Anyone know where the settings are that control the backgrounds of the xfce4-panel when they are hovered over?
Thanks
Last edited by VastOne (2011-08-14 16:09:54)
Re: [SOLVED] Xfce4-panel background settings..
I remember messing around with those once, too. It's hell. It's somewhere in the gtk2rc, but it's different from the gnome-panel entries so some themes have it, others don't - and then it uses some entries I never figured out.
Take a look at one of Crunchbang's gtk2rc files, they helped me doing what I wanted. Don't remember now, though
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Re: [SOLVED] Xfce4-panel background settings..
@Vastone, what settings do you mean, the opacity ones? Also, which version are you on, 4.6 or 4.8?
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Re: [SOLVED] Xfce4-panel background settings..
hhh wrote:
@Vastone, what settings do you mean, the opacity ones? Also, which version are you on, 4.6 or 4.8?
I am referring to the icons that are in the panel when you create a launcher and choose it's icon
They are fine within the panel, perfectly transparent... but when you hover over them, the then display a very white background..
I am using 4.8
I have scoured the web and tried several suggestions to gtkrc-2.0 and I have gone all through everything within the xfce4-settings-editor but nothing seems to touch the mouseover hover background of these images... Opacity works just as it should for the panel...
Thanks....
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Re: [SOLVED] Xfce4-panel background settings..
I thought you were on 4.8. I'm on 4.6, guess I can't help... sorry!
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Re: [SOLVED] Xfce4-panel background settings..
I have found further information on this issue...
For whatever reason, the panel is stripping the transparency layer for the icons when it loads them..
I was noticing strange shadows of some of the icons in the panel, so I opened up one of the images within gimp and stripped the transparency layer... and sure enough, it is the exact image that the panel is using ...
This only happens on the xfce4-panel... I use these same icons anywhere else and the transparency is fine...
Also of note, I added the Applications Menu to my panel and used one of my icons... It does work correctly..
So whatever the box is that is drawn around Launchers when hovered over is what is stripping the transparency out
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Re: [SOLVED] Xfce4-panel background settings..
At long last I have finally resolved this..
All the time I was looking though and changing all panel options in either my own local gtkrc-2.0 file or in the master gtrkc file of the theme(s) I am using to resolve this
But I finally found exactly where it was at... I had been focusing on anything panel related to all gtrkc files I was looking at.. I then switched to a very basic xfce theme that put a light blue background.. I then traced that to
style "button"
bg[PRELIGHT] = "cce2ff"
Now that I traced the where... in the theme I use it was this...
Prelight = file "/button/button-prelight.png"
I simply commented that line out and it was fixed...
Too much focus on panel and not the button area...
So I resolved it by good old fashion process of elimination..
Frustrating but a learning effort...
Conky is a whole lot easier...