Weird background on taskbar/notifcation area icons...

[fishsticks]

Hey... Just installed a fresh copy of Mint yesterday and I've been getting it set up just the way I like it based on my time in Ubuntu, and so far, so good.

However, I'm having a bit of an (aesthetic) issue with the "taskbar"/notification area icons... Banshee has recently acquired a grey background and I'm not sure why, and then JDownloader now has a grey background too... Is there anything I can do to resolve this or am I stuck with the weirdo icon issues? (Yeah, silly question.)

I've restarted, closed the programs and started them again... Haven't fiddled with the icons other than to give JDownloader a better launcher icon in the menu... Any ideas as to how I can make the icon backgrounds match the default theme?

Screen is attached, sorry for the vagueness but I hope it'll be clear enough!

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[unexistance]

Hi,

Below are not exactly a fix, but:

right-click panel
background
select any three options there, as long as the grey background is gone

I've seen it happens before on my machine, but I'm not sure what i did (maybe i changed the theme)

Regards,

[fishsticks]

Thanks for the suggestion... It doesn't change anything though, except for the colour of the panel to the left of the notification area.

On your mention of themes I started toggling the themes around... It shows up the way it does in the screen in Shiki-Mint; the Banshee background glitch disappears in the other themes though (although it introduces a new background glitch for the sound icon). Puzzling. It seems really hit and miss which applications are affected (eg: VLC is affected, but Skype is fine)... Is it maybe a problem with the icons themselves and the default theme?

Thanks for the help, though! I appreciate it.

[fishsticks]

To follow up with this question now that I've been searching like a fiend on my "problem with icons" theory, it looks like a known bug affecting Banshee, VLC, etc etc etc... Ah well. Maybe I will have to switch themes after all...

[bobcollard]

To follow up with this question now that I've been searching like a fiend on my "problem with icons" theory, it looks like a known bug affecting Banshee, VLC, etc etc etc... Ah well. Maybe I will have to switch themes after all...

It's not your panel, it's the Icons which do not have a "Clear" background. You can fix it with Gimp, but it takes some work. Copy the icon, change the background and save, then replace the Icon.