[SOLVED] cannot get transparent panel

[DesiDishoom]

whenever i set the color of the panel to "transparent" it ends up as a very non-transparent blue.

i even tried loading a transparent png as the background, and it still ended up the same blue... my desktop background isn't blue, so i'm not sure why it's doing this.

i'm using ubuntu 8.04 with compiz-fusion. any input would be GREATLY appreciated!

[Sam Lars]

This is marked as solved... if that is the case, could you share how you solved it?

[DesiDishoom]

oh yea sorry forgot about that...well i realized that because i wanted to get different wallpapers on the different desktops, i had to disable nautilus from rendering my wallpaper. So when i tried to make the panel transparent, it showed the background that was previously set by nautilus, which happened to be blue in my case. so this would work if all of my wallpapers had the same blue shade around the top of the screen.

in any case, i just decided that a transparent panel wasn't as important as being able to have different wallpapers on each desktop.

[cubeist]

oh yea sorry forgot about that...well i realized that because i wanted to get different wallpapers on the different desktops, i had to disable nautilus from rendering my wallpaper. So when i tried to make the panel transparent, it showed the background that was previously set by nautilus, which happened to be blue in my case. so this would work if all of my wallpapers had the same blue shade around the top of the screen.

in any case, i just decided that a transparent panel wasn't as important as being able to have different wallpapers on each desktop.

I am in the same boat as you. Four different wallpapers for the compiz cube or expo is more important than transparent panels...but it would be nice in the future if someone figured out how to do this... For the time being, I have the nautilus just draw a light grey color...