Creating Utterly Transparent Taskbar? [SOLVED]

[jakfish]

Using Lubuntu 12.04 on a Lenovo S10-3t

Through Panel Settings/Appearance/Solid Color, is there a color code that would create a transparent taskbar, transparent enough that the taskbar would only reveal Clock, Battery, and User-chosen Panel Items, and have no color at all?

Can that be done, or am I not understanding a principle of LXDE?

Many thanks for any help,
Jake

[Rex Bouwense]

I just checked this in Lubuntu 12.10 and it works.
Right click on your panel and navigate to Appearance. Check Solid color (with opacity). That should give you what you want.

[seppalta]

Right click on your panel and navigate to Appearance. Check Solid color (with opacity).

Slide the opacity bar to 0:

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[jakfish]

Thank you both for your quick replies. I have reduced opacity to zero, and while that works for the desktop screen, when I'm in another app, the taskbar is showing the desktop background rather than true transparency.

Is that the way LXDE is built? That zero opacity makes it take on the color of the desktop background? I've just switched from another Linux/JWM so am still feeling my way through OpenBox/LXDE.

For reference to anybody using Lubuntu 12.04 with default desktop wallpaper, the hex code for the blue color running above the taskbar is #3377A3.

Again, I'm grateful for your assistance,
Jake

[Rex Bouwense]

Glad to be of assistance. You got lucky and caught two mods on line at the same time and both responded within minutes. Welcome to the forums and stick around. Perhaps you can be of assistance to some one as well.

[jakfish]

Thanks again for your support,
Jake

[seppalta]

the taskbar is showing the desktop background

Isn't that what transparency is, to see through to the background? Anyway, that is what it is in LXDE.

[jakfish]

Actually, I was hoping that a transparent taskbar would me see through to whatever window, not just the desktop. But I get it now, and thank you for your follow-up.

Jake

[seppalta]

was hoping that a transparent taskbar would me see through to whatever window

Sounds like you want windows to ride above the panel. This is possible with LXDE panel. If I remember correctly, just untick the boxes under Properties in Panel Preferences>Advanced.

[jakfish]

Yes, that does successfully hides the taskbar, many thanks. Still wouldn't mind seeing the given window along with nothing but the panel electives (clock, battery, etc), but certainly this is an ingenious manager with much to tweak behind its low-resource simplicity.

Jake