Making panel items match the theme

[shatteredmindofbob]

I posted this in the desktop customization forum but it's since fallen to the third page with no replies, so I thought I'd try here.

After installing a new theme in Ibex, that new user switcher item retains the gray background of the original panel (see screenshot) How do I fix this?

[Sand Lee]

have you tried restarting X?

[mcduck]

try restarting the panel. "killall gnome-panel" should do the trick..

[shatteredmindofbob]

Nope, restarting X or gnome-panel doesn't do it...

[shatteredmindofbob]

Any other ideas?

[mcduck]

If reloading the panel doesn't work it could simply be a bug in the theme you are using, perhaps it defines a background picture for panel itself, but not for panel applets or even a suitable color for the applets..

You could try using another theme, or defining the panel background image manualy from the panel's configuration (which is much better than those panels included in themes, anyway, as this way it's possible to enable rotation and scaling of panel backgrounds in gconf-editor while theme-defined backgrounds only really work with horizontal panels of certain size)