XFCE 4.6 and panel cairo patch or panel backround

gjoellee · 2009-04-30 16:43:42

As you see on the link below you could get the panel cairo patch for Xfce 4.4.3. This patch pakes the Xfce panel become beautifully transparent without icons getting transparent.

See panel cairo in action: http://media.photobucket.com/image/pane … t-32-2.jpg

Is there a way to get panel cario in Xfce 4.6? Or is there a way to make a transparent image to become the panel background? How?

Last edited by gjoellee (2009-04-30 17:20:19)

Odysseus · 2009-05-01 01:39:46

The XFCE panel follows your gtk theme, so you sould be able to edit your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 somehow. I don't really know much about that though,

pogeymanz · 2009-05-01 01:53:51

gjoellee wrote:

As you see on the link below you could get the panel cairo patch for Xfce 4.4.3. This patch pakes the Xfce panel become beautifully transparent without icons getting transparent.
See panel cairo in action: http://media.photobucket.com/image/pane … t-32-2.jpg
Is there a way to get panel cario in Xfce 4.6? Or is there a way to make a transparent image to become the panel background? How?

So far I have not seen a cairo patch written for 4.6. As I understand it, several things were rewritten in 4.6, so I'm guessing the old patch wont work, but have you tried it anyway?

gjoellee · 2009-05-01 07:00:17

pogeymanz wrote:

gjoellee wrote:
As you see on the link below you could get the panel cairo patch for Xfce 4.4.3. This patch pakes the Xfce panel become beautifully transparent without icons getting transparent.
See panel cairo in action: http://media.photobucket.com/image/pane … t-32-2.jpg
Is there a way to get panel cario in Xfce 4.6? Or is there a way to make a transparent image to become the panel background? How?
So far I have not seen a cairo patch written for 4.6. As I understand it, several things were rewritten in 4.6, so I'm guessing the old patch wont work, but have you tried it anyway?

yes, it does not work at all.

banshee28 · 2009-05-01 22:06:53

gjoellee wrote:

yes, it does not work at all.

+1. I tried to get xfce4.6 panel transparent with the icons still fully visible, but it will not work yet. I have found no patches to work with the new 4.6. You can do some searching on single pixel images and try to edit your panel settings, but to me this was more effort than it was worth.

I went to lxpanel. Transparent with a single click

gjoellee · 2009-05-02 09:49:41

banshee28 wrote:

+1. I tried to get xfce4.6 panel transparent with the icons still fully visible, but it will not work yet. I have found no patches to work with the new 4.6. You can do some searching on single pixel images and try to edit your panel settings, but to me this was more effort than it was worth.
I went to lxpanel. Transparent with a single click

Yeah, Lxpanel works as well as many other panels, but I like the xfce panel and that is what I am staying with until I upgrade my computer. When I do that I will move to KDE.

jarryson · 2009-05-08 21:01:47

i tried to modify the patch for successfully patching, it do patched successful, and can compile successful

but can't run...

i guess the biggest different of xfce4.4 and 4.6 in the patch, is the change of plugins/separator/separator.c.

wankel · 2009-05-26 21:53:00

heres the cairo patch for the new panel:

http://www.cooptel.qc.ca/~pggervais/xfc … tch.tar.gz

can anyone give me a step by step on how to apply this patch to my panel?

jarryson · 2009-05-27 14:26:43

after add this patch, seems not every plugin works well.

such as systray, gnome-globalmenu-plugin, orage plugin.

especially the systray...

gjoellee · 2009-05-27 18:53:37

The new patch works great, the systray does however not work good as you said.

Last edited by gjoellee (2009-05-27 20:30:49)

wankel · 2009-05-31 20:23:44

Any help on patching the panel?

methuselah · 2009-06-01 07:17:02

wankel wrote:

heres the cairo patch for the new panel:
http://www.cooptel.qc.ca/~pggervais/xfc … tch.tar.gz
can anyone give me a step by step on how to apply this patch to my panel?

This is how I patched mine:

place the new 4.6.1 patch, this PKGBUILD, and the xfce4-panel.install files in a folder called ~/xfce4-panel-build:

PKGBUILD file:

# $Id: PKGBUILD 36266 2009-04-20 20:58:18Z andyrtr $
# Maintainer: tobias <tobias funnychar archlinux.org>

pkgname=xfce4-panel
pkgver=4.6.1
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Panel for the Xfce desktop environment"
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
license=('GPL2')
url="http://www.xfce.org/"
groups=('xfce4')
depends=("libxfcegui4>=$pkgver" 'exo>=0.3.101' 'libwnck' 'hicolor-icon-theme')
makedepends=('pkgconfig' "xfconf>=$pkgver" 'intltool')
options=('!libtool')
install=${pkgname}.install
source=(http://www.xfce.org/archive/xfce-${pkgver}/src/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.bz2
        xfce4-panel-4.6.1.tar.bz2)
md5sums=('73a366b9892152266b465d7d9c35bef4'
         '7078dba125570fd952de63a78c477d1c')

build() {
  cd ${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}
  patch -Np0 -i /home/"your-name"/xfce4-panel-build/xfce4-panel-4.6.1_cairo.patch
  ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --libexecdir=/usr/lib \
    --localstatedir=/var --disable-static
  make || return 1
  make DESTDIR=${pkgdir} install || return 1
}

xfce4-panel.install file:

post_install() {
  gtk-update-icon-cache -q -t -f usr/share/icons/hicolor
}

post_upgrade() {
  post_install $1
}

post_remove() {
  gtk-update-icon-cache -q -t -f usr/share/icons/hicolor
}

then in the xfce4-panel-build folder run this in a terminal:

makepkg -c

I think this should work for you. Then all you have to do is install it using pacman -U, and then restart the panel using these 2 commands in alt+f2 run program:

killall xfce4-panel

then:

xfce4-panel &

Last edited by methuselah (2009-06-01 07:21:24)

fatty · 2009-06-02 18:10:33

Doesn't work for me somehow. Could you provide an AUR package for this?

methuselah · 2009-06-02 19:49:46

fatty wrote:

Doesn't work for me somehow. Could you provide an AUR package for this?

What part didn't work?

There is an AUR PKGBUILD already: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22081

All you would have to do is edit that PKGBUILD to use the 4.6.1 version numbers and md5sums, and the new 4.6.1 patch.

Pank · 2009-06-15 07:53:27

This is probably a stupid question but how do I "activate" the cairo-patch once it has been installed?
Thanks,
Rasmus

savel · 2009-06-19 18:40:07

mmm After some problems finally i was able to install but i now how activate this, i even change the panel-backrgound and don't work

methuselah · 2009-07-01 22:19:49

savel wrote:

mmm After some problems finally i was able to install but i now how activate this, i even change the panel-backrgound and don't work

You would have to restart the xfce4-panel to use the newly uploaded transparent panel. And you need either xfwm4 compositing turned on, or compiz compositing on.

Run in "Alt f2":

killall xfce4-panel

then:

xfce4-panel &

savel · 2009-07-02 15:14:31

nop the problem was with the PKGBUILD, in the "your-name" problem now is working thanks.....................

methuselah · 2009-07-03 01:02:33

savel wrote:

nop the problem was with the PKGBUILD, in the "your-name" problem now is working thanks.....................

Yeah, I just copy and pasted my PKGBUILD and replaced the path that I use with:

/home/"your-name"/xfce4-panel-build/xfce4-panel-4.6.1_cairo.patch

I assumed that people would change the path above to their correct path..... like..... /home/"YOUR_USER_NAME"/maybe_a_build_folder/xfce4-panel-build/xfce4-panel-4.6.1_cairo.patch

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#1 2009-04-30 16:43:42

XFCE 4.6 and panel cairo patch or panel backround

#2 2009-05-01 01:39:46

Re: XFCE 4.6 and panel cairo patch or panel backround

#3 2009-05-01 01:53:51

Re: XFCE 4.6 and panel cairo patch or panel backround

#4 2009-05-01 07:00:17

Re: XFCE 4.6 and panel cairo patch or panel backround

#5 2009-05-01 22:06:53

Re: XFCE 4.6 and panel cairo patch or panel backround

#6 2009-05-02 09:49:41

Re: XFCE 4.6 and panel cairo patch or panel backround

#7 2009-05-08 21:01:47

Re: XFCE 4.6 and panel cairo patch or panel backround

#8 2009-05-26 21:53:00

Re: XFCE 4.6 and panel cairo patch or panel backround

#9 2009-05-27 14:26:43

Re: XFCE 4.6 and panel cairo patch or panel backround

#10 2009-05-27 18:53:37

Re: XFCE 4.6 and panel cairo patch or panel backround

#11 2009-05-31 20:23:44

Re: XFCE 4.6 and panel cairo patch or panel backround

#12 2009-06-01 07:17:02

Re: XFCE 4.6 and panel cairo patch or panel backround

#13 2009-06-02 18:10:33

Re: XFCE 4.6 and panel cairo patch or panel backround

#14 2009-06-02 19:49:46

Re: XFCE 4.6 and panel cairo patch or panel backround

#15 2009-06-15 07:53:27

Re: XFCE 4.6 and panel cairo patch or panel backround

#16 2009-06-19 18:40:07

Re: XFCE 4.6 and panel cairo patch or panel backround

#17 2009-07-01 22:19:49

Re: XFCE 4.6 and panel cairo patch or panel backround

#18 2009-07-02 15:14:31

Re: XFCE 4.6 and panel cairo patch or panel backround

#19 2009-07-03 01:02:33

Re: XFCE 4.6 and panel cairo patch or panel backround

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