Panel Opacity

[divot66]

Just installed LXDE RC and it`s very good. But I don`t seem to be able to get full opacity on the panel. When I click Panel Settings/Appearance/Solid Color/ it should be totally opaque. Mine is black. I believe this is a problem in Lubuntu also. One of the things I like about LXDE over XFCE is the ability to have a see through panel. It`s not a deal breaker though in other versions of LXDE, such as Fedora, Watt OS, PCLinuxOS, it can be done. I`ll probably stick with this Mint though as it plays extremely well on my laptop. Keep up the great work. Any thoughts?

[senseiski]

Just installed LXDE RC and it`s very good. But I don`t seem to be able to get full opacity on the panel. When I click Panel Settings/Appearance/Solid Color/ it should be totally opaque. Mine is black. I believe this is a problem in Lubuntu also. One of the things I like about LXDE over XFCE is the ability to have a see through panel. It`s not a deal breaker though in other versions of LXDE, such as Fedora, Watt OS, PCLinuxOS, it can be done. I`ll probably stick with this Mint though as it plays extremely well on my laptop. Keep up the great work. Any thoughts?

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/opaque
I think that either me or you got it all wrong If you want your panel to be transparent (to see through it) you should set the panel's opacity to 0

Cheers!

[divot66]

Thanks for the response and the teachable moment on the def. of opaque. I did set it to 0 and it`s black, not transparent.

[senseiski]

Could you please provide a screenshot of your desktop with the panel settings open?

[divot66]

Screenshot

[Kendall]

It worked fine in Mint 8 LXDE, but I've been unable to isolate the issue in Mint 9 LXDE. As far as bugs go, I didn't figure it was anything to write home about, but there are some new builds of lxpanel being worked on upstream at the moment.

[senseiski]

It may sound a little bit unorthodox, but did you tried changing the wallpaper (I had similar problem, and as far as I can remember it was due to the wallpaper itself).

[divot66]

Thanks for all the replies. I tried changing the wallpaper and the panel is still not transparent. I can live with it. In fact it will let me play around with using different background images instead.

[senseiski]

Interesting. I installed the RC and got the same problem

[Bluebris]

Just installed LXDE RC and it`s very good. But I don`t seem to be able to get full opacity on the panel. When I click Panel Settings/Appearance/Solid Color/ it should be totally opaque. Mine is black. I believe this is a problem in Lubuntu also. One of the things I like about LXDE over XFCE is the ability to have a see through panel. It`s not a deal breaker though in other versions of LXDE, such as Fedora, Watt OS, PCLinuxOS, it can be done. I`ll probably stick with this Mint though as it plays extremely well on my laptop. Keep up the great work. Any thoughts?

Yeah, i'm waiting to see if this can be resolved too. As you say, not a big issue, Mint 9 LXDE is running like a dream for me, so this isn't enough to put me off it!

[andrew5859]

I'm having the same problem on my Dell laptop and I have LM9 LXDE on it....also having problems with no sound....any suggestions?

Cheers

Andrew