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CVGH
April 24th, 2016, 09:16 PM
Hi,

I'm trying to get my launcher to have a transparent background.
The panel is ok but I can't get the launcher background transparent.

Unity/Ubuntu Tweak nor CCSM seem to have any effect..

What am I missing?

Thanks!
mc4man
April 25th, 2016, 03:48 AM
Try setting the Launcher Opacity to 0.0000 & the Background Color > Opacity to 3, leave the Background color at #000000
CVGH
April 26th, 2016, 11:57 PM
Hmmm............

In CCSM I was able to make the Panel transparent but the launcher background is solid black...
mc4man
April 27th, 2016, 12:31 AM
Hmmm............

In CCSM I was able to make the Panel transparent but the launcher background is solid black...
While I don't do as in screens this is as transparent as I can get both. There is a flaw in that the Background Color opacity affects the panel opacity so to keep a transparent panel the BC opacity has to be very low.
(- If the BC opacity is set to 0, (default), then the launcher gets colored even when set to transparent based on average of your Background image. A low BC also creates a transparent Dash which can be undesirable...

The launcher opacity is set in screen to 0.0000 & is pretty much transparent though another flaw is the dark shadow at the top.
CVGH
April 27th, 2016, 01:29 AM
Huh,

For some reason that does not work here.

Thanks!
mc4man
April 27th, 2016, 01:31 AM
Huh,

For some reason that does not work here.

Thanks!
I guess that begs the question - What release of Ubuntu are you using?
CVGH
April 28th, 2016, 03:24 PM
14.04.4
mc4man
April 29th, 2016, 08:41 PM
14.04.4

Log into a guest session, open ccsm & see if it works there
CVGH
April 30th, 2016, 09:15 PM
No change. Can make panel background transparent but not the launcher....
CVGH
May 1st, 2016, 02:35 PM
So I've set the launcher to auto-hide so I don't notice it so much....

Thanks!

B.
saiboo
September 11th, 2016, 04:16 PM
I'm trying to get my launcher to have a transparent background.
The panel is ok but I can't get the launcher background transparent.


Hi, I just fixed this, maybe you have the same situation:


saiboo@home:~$ gsettings get org.compiz.unityshell:/org/compiz/profiles/unity/plugins/unityshell/ low-graphics-mode

leads to true.

In that case, you need to change such param:


saiboo@home:~$ gsettings set org.compiz.unityshell:/org/compiz/profiles/unity/plugins/unityshell/ low-graphics-mode false

ubuntu 16.04 LTS, YMMV
CVGH
October 9th, 2016, 11:14 PM
gsettings get org.compiz.unityshell:/org/compiz/profiles/unity/plugins/unityshell/ low-graphics-mode

Response is "false"