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schanall

#! CrunchBanger

From: Hamburg

Registered: 2008-12-20

Posts: 103

How can I change the color of the panel area where the clipboard is?

Hi,

I`m sorry for this horrible question. I don' t know how to name the area where the clipboard is located. I have made a screenshot to explain.

my problem: I wan't  a transparent area. Does anybody know where I can change this? I have customized the "Fawn" theme and now the area has the same color as my changed Fawn theme. I thing it is a kind of image?

dr. cox

Member

From: Germany

Registered: 2009-02-01

Posts: 23

Re: How can I change the color of the panel area where the clipboard is?

right clicking on it and then choosing

"panel settings"

gives you a few options, transparency being one of them. you can even tint is as far as i know.

hope that helps.

flicck

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Registered: 2008-12-26

Posts: 87

Re: How can I change the color of the panel area where the clipboard is?

@ schanall : the area you're talking about is usually called the system tray.

schanall

#! CrunchBanger

From: Hamburg

Registered: 2008-12-20

Posts: 103

Re: How can I change the color of the panel area where the clipboard is?

Oh I'm sorry, I forgot to mention that I'm using the "lite" edition of #!.

Right klicking doesn't work for me

But thank you both for your answers. I will try to colorize the picutres in the theme, step by step. One of them must be the solution..

anonymous

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From: Arch Linux Forums

Registered: 2008-11-29

Posts: 8,899

Re: How can I change the color of the panel area where the clipboard is?

Which version are you using? 8.10.02 or 8.10.01 RC?

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rizzo

#! wanderer

From: ~/

Registered: 2008-11-25

Posts: 5,100

Re: How can I change the color of the panel area where the clipboard is?

It looks like you are using tint2 and trayer. Try logging out and back in again. This can clear that problem in trayer after a theme change. If not maybe a change to lxpanel like the main edition uses would be what you need.

Foomandoonian

#! CrunchBanger

From: Cardiff, UK

Registered: 2008-12-07

Posts: 226

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Re: How can I change the color of the panel area where the clipboard is?

Sometimes you can force the systray to redraw. I usually hit F11 in Firefox to make it go fullscreen for a second.

Your autostart.sh should have the following line in it, or something similar:

(sleep 2s && trayer --align right --edge top --transparent true --alpha 255 --tint 0x000000 --widthtype request --height 24 --expand true --margin 66) &

The 'transparency', 'alpha' and maybe 'tint' entries being the significant ones here.

Should sort you.

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Nik_Doof

#! Junkie

Registered: 2008-12-13

Posts: 361

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Re: How can I change the color of the panel area where the clipboard is?

That look like the age old GTK issue, the tray icons are rendered using the GTK rules (or QT) which will pull in the rules set in the theme for panel display. Lxpanel ignores these settings and you end up with odd blotches like that.

What is your GTK theme? Usually this can be fixed by editing out a few lines of it.

[edit]

Just spotted you mentioned Fawn,

Edit ~/.themes/Fawn/gtk2.0/panel.rc, and comment out any lines that reference panel-bg.png

schanall

#! CrunchBanger

From: Hamburg

Registered: 2008-12-20

Posts: 103

Re: How can I change the color of the panel area where the clipboard is?

Thank you all for  your help!

I gave up yesterday and installed the original FWAN - Theme. Now it works again.

Some day I will try it again, but I'm too busy now...Sorry, and thanks for help!

Edit: OH I didn't see Nik's "edit". I will try this! I think this is the picture I was looking for...

Thanks. Nik's answer got it!

Last edited by schanall (2009-02-16 22:08:44)