Menu bar and system tray transparency

[Richard1979]

See pic:
http://www.digit4l.net/content/images/forum/Menus.jpg
(parts censored for obvious reasons)

I've managed to get my main menus to have transparency and it looks great, same deal with the shortcut bar - but the main menu (Applications Places System) and the system tray area are a solid color and I can't see how to edit them.

Any ideas?

[moongia]

In my ccsm under ''opacity,brightness and saturation adjustments''under ''windows specific settings'' I hit new and added ''name=gnome-panel'' w/o quotes. It worked for me I hope it helps

[Richard1979]

In my ccsm under ''opacity,brightness and saturation adjustments''under ''windows specific settings'' I hit new and added ''name=gnome-panel'' w/o quotes. It worked for me I hope it helps

Amazing, it worked.
Thank you.

I now have a desktop that will make my Windows 7 mates go "WTF how?"

[moongia]

No prob.

[Richard1979]

Looking really good now, woohoo:
http://www.digit4l.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/DesktopTransparency.jpg
Take that Windows!

[moongia]

LoL I dig the wallpaper..Glad to help.

[kelvin spratt]

you extend it like this
name=gnome-panel | type=Menu | tooltip | PopupMenu | DropdownMenu, set you opicaty to what ever, or you can separate, them for individual settings.

[moongia]

Thanks,I'm good to go.

[vgrisham]

How do you do this in Lucid? I've added the window setting in ccsm, but the text and icons all disappear as well.

[rude_lee]

yeah me too does not seem to work any help please people

oh i get it

name=gnome-panel | type=Menu | tooltip | PopupMenu | DropdownMenu

and the value raise it above 70 and u should see everything working... so easy
thanks this is hot

[Timmer1240]

Thanks alot!Was wondering how to do this awhile back and stumbled on to this thread it really pays to visit the forums Often!Thanks for the info and Keep Ubuntuing!

[XsilverX]

http://i741.photobucket.com/albums/xx51/XsilverX90/Screenshot.png
loged as root navigat to file system/usr/share/themes
is you are using ambiance go to ambiance folder or if you are using radiance go to radiance folder once in there open the folder named "gtk-2.0" and open the file called "gtkrc" with gedit (as root)
find the line:
bg_pixmap[NORMAL] = "panel_bg.png"

and put a # before it leaving it like this:

# bg_pixmap[NORMAL] = "panel_bg.png"
(with a space between the # and the text)

save it, restart your computer and then right click your panel go to background and select solid color

thats all ;D hope it works for you
(this only works with the ambiance and radiance theme)