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SiD

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From: Germany

Registered: 2006-09-21

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[Solved] Pypanel Tray Icons not transparent - (Deluge, Sonata)

I use Pypanel in Openbox.
The Background of some Tray Icons (in the screenshot Deluge and Sonate) is not Transparent.

What can I do to make them transparent, like the pidgin tray icon?

P.S.
I can't remember exactly, but I think I opened the Icon Files with gimp and they had a transparent background.
I guess the Icons use the background from the gtk-theme.

Last edited by SiD (2008-02-21 20:48:04)

Roberth

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From: The Pale Blue Dot

Registered: 2007-01-12

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Re: [Solved] Pypanel Tray Icons not transparent - (Deluge, Sonata)

File a bug for the applicassions on their bug tracker.

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oliwer

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Registered: 2007-06-30

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Re: [Solved] Pypanel Tray Icons not transparent - (Deluge, Sonata)

I bet that comes from a bad gtk theme/engine.

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Tenken

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Registered: 2008-02-01

Posts: 126

Re: [Solved] Pypanel Tray Icons not transparent - (Deluge, Sonata)

If you have changed your background recently, some tray icons need to have their programs restarted or they will keep "pieces" of the old background instead of being transparent.

MrWeatherbee

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Registered: 2007-08-01

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Re: [Solved] Pypanel Tray Icons not transparent - (Deluge, Sonata)

If you have changed your background recently, some tray icons need to have their programs restarted or they will keep "pieces" of the old background instead of being transparent.

Yes this is true. I usually just hide and then unhide pypanel to redraw it, and everything is cleared up.

By the way, I have also seen similar transparency issues while testing custom tray icons that were too big to fit in the allotted space. However, in this instance, I don't see any indication that customizations were done, and the stock icon for Sonata works perfectly fine with pypanel for me.

SiD

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From: Germany

Registered: 2006-09-21

Posts: 729

Re: [Solved] Pypanel Tray Icons not transparent - (Deluge, Sonata)

I bet that comes from a bad gtk theme/engine.

Yes, you are right.
I use the GT4_white-aqd theme.
The theme contains a file named panel.rc. I had to comment one line and now the Sonata and Deluge icons have a transparent background.

This is the part of the file in which the line is.

style "panelbg"
{
  xthickness                        = 0
  ythickness                        = 0
bg_pixmap[NORMAL]                    = "Panel/panel-bg.png"
#bg_pixmap[SELECTED]                    = "Panel/panel-bg.png"
#bg_pixmap[INSENSITIVE]                    = "Panel/panel-bg.png"
#bg_pixmap[PRELIGHT]                    = "Panel/panel-bg.png"
}

I commented the bg_pixmap[NORMAL] ... line.

Last edited by SiD (2008-02-21 20:55:34)

oskar.einstein

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From: Poland

Registered: 2009-10-23

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Re: [Solved] Pypanel Tray Icons not transparent - (Deluge, Sonata)

Unfortunally this doesn't work for me. I have comment bg_pixmap... line in panel.rc of nooto theme and background is still grey. Any ideas?

Inxsible

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Registered: 2008-06-09

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Re: [Solved] Pypanel Tray Icons not transparent - (Deluge, Sonata)

Closing for necro-bumping.

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