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#1 2011-05-04 14:17:19

Aventinus
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How to make upper bar transparent in GNOME Shell

I've searched but found nothing. Is there anyway to do it?

Thanks in advance.


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#2 2011-05-04 16:41:31

mirandir
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Re: How to make upper bar transparent in GNOME Shell

Hi,

I'm not sure, but it seems the panel don't support real transparency, even in Gnome 3.

[EDIT] Source : http://www.vuntz.net/journal/post/2011/ … nel!#c5272

Last edited by mirandir (2011-05-04 16:44:03)

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#3 2011-05-04 16:48:38

Aventinus
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Re: How to make upper bar transparent in GNOME Shell

Hmm, I hope in the future it will support transparency. Having transparent bar makes the DE a lot more elegant.


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#4 2011-05-04 17:23:13

mirandir
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Re: How to make upper bar transparent in GNOME Shell

I hope too, real transparency would be great. At least, the Gnome 3 panel is more beautiful than in Gnome 2.

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#5 2011-05-04 17:26:18

Aventinus
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Re: How to make upper bar transparent in GNOME Shell

mirandir wrote:

I hope too, real transparency would be great. At least, the Gnome 3 panel is more beautiful than in Gnome 2.

I'd say it's a lot more beautiful! GNOME 2 was totally ugly and had to be heavily customized to be made pretty.


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#6 2011-05-04 18:27:58

kimura
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Re: How to make upper bar transparent in GNOME Shell

Hi

This is my first post here ;-)

To get gnome-shell panel transparency, try this:

Edit the panel section in /usr/share/gnome-shell/theme/gnome-shell.css to:

#panel {
    color: #ffffff;
    /*background-color: black;*/
    background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.6);
    /*border-image: url("panel-border.svg") 1;*/
}

where rgba(0,0,0,0.6) is the alpha channel.

This worked for me.

Not sure about posting a link to ubuntu forums here, but...

source:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p= … tcount=698

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#7 2011-05-04 18:42:57

eldragon
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Re: How to make upper bar transparent in GNOME Shell

what i dont like about editing /usr/share/gnome-shell/theme/ is that an update is likely to hose everything up..

so i would backup all customizations just to be safe wink

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#8 2011-05-07 16:14:29

Aventinus
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Posts: 147

Re: How to make upper bar transparent in GNOME Shell

kimura wrote:

Hi

This is my first post here ;-)

To get gnome-shell panel transparency, try this:

Edit the panel section in /usr/share/gnome-shell/theme/gnome-shell.css to:

#panel {
    color: #ffffff;
    /*background-color: black;*/
    background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.6);
    /*border-image: url("panel-border.svg") 1;*/
}

where rgba(0,0,0,0.6) is the alpha channel.

This worked for me.

Not sure about posting a link to ubuntu forums here, but...

source:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p= … tcount=698

That worked out great kimura! Thanks! And don't worry about posting a thread from Ubuntu Forums. Linux distros should support each other!

I have another thing though. Right now my upper bar is transparent but the calendar and user widgets are like they used to. I wonder how can I fix this...


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#9 2011-05-07 18:30:45

kolos
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Re: How to make upper bar transparent in GNOME Shell

you can also use gradients
#panel {
    color: #ffffff;
    background-gradient-direction: vertical;
    background-gradient-start: rgba(31,30,30,0.9);
    background-gradient-end: rgba(56,56,56,0.0);

    height: 1.86em;
    padding-right: 15px;
}

eldragon wrote:

what i dont like about editing /usr/share/gnome-shell/theme/ is that an update is likely to hose everything up..

so i would backup all customizations just to be safe wink

install gnome extension http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=47501 , with the extension called user-theme@something (i deleted all the others) you can change from tweaks-tools the theme of the shell, new themes should be put in in /home/user/.themes/$name-of-theme/gnome-shell/

Last edited by kolos (2011-05-07 18:45:46)


och noes!

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#10 2014-11-14 10:54:15

divyang
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Posts: 5

Re: How to make upper bar transparent in GNOME Shell

YOu can use Activities configurator extansion to make top panel transperent
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/ … figurator/

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