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Transparent Panel Background

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A sleek-looking transparent background for Gnome-Panel. I was inspired to create this by =lassekongo83's recent "paint-on panels" (made that term up :paranoid:) Basically instead of painting the panel image onto the wallpaper, I've just created a simple 1px wide tiling background image, applied in the panel's properties dialog.

What inspired me was using the same instructions to disable the existing gtk theme's panel background. I'd messed around with creating panel backgrounds before, however I was always plagued by the inconsistency of the two backgrounds fighting each other.

After learning how to disable it, I created this custom background, and instantly liked it better than old-fashioned panel backgrounds. Now I'm sharing, lol.

Included in the .zip file is a readme file with instructions on how to disable your gtk theme's background to fix the look of the panel.
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underboy's avatar
beautiful. :) What's the font name that you are using?