I have been using lxpanel on several versions of Fedora, on Debian and on FreeBSD.
Until now I have always been able to set the background transparency (Panel Settings -> Appearance -> Solid Colour with opacity).
But having installed Fedora 18 I cannot get the transparency effect. Incidentally, transparency works fine with the background of lxterminal, so I don't think it's a video issue.
Any ideas?
No Transparent Background in Fedora 18
Re: No Transparent Background in Fedora 18
I'm having a similar issue.
Re: No Transparent Background in Fedora 18
From what you say and my own experience, which is with numerous Debian based systems and many after market installs, this must be a Fedora 18 issue. It has never been a problem for me.I have been using lxpanel on several versions of Fedora, on Debian and on FreeBSD. Until now I have always been able to set the background transparency...
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Re: No Transparent Background in Fedora 18
Definitely a Fedora issue - it persists into the current F19 alpha. I took matters into my own hand and installed compton (a fork of xcompmgr) and created a desktop file in ~.config/autostart to set the transparency of the panels by executing the following script, which identifies the panels by their dimensions:
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#!/bin/bash
while [ -z "$panel1" ]; do
panel1=$(xwininfo -root -children | grep 1680x24 | awk '{print $1}')
done
while [ -z "$panel2" ]; do
panel2=$(xwininfo -root -children | grep 24x1026 | awk '{print $1}')
done
compton-trans -w $panel1 67
compton-trans -w $panel2 67
exit 0
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