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How to make KDE Plasma taskbar panel transparent?
Method 1.
Makes panels transparent without altering the theme.
Go to System Settings > Window Management | Window Rules. Press New... button. Give some description to the new rule, Dock ...
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Strange "ghost images" / transparency effect in full-screen videos
My config is Firefox 64.0, Ubuntu 18.04.1. Experienced the same problem. After searching and reading, finally was able to fix it.
Changed layers.acceleration.force-enabled option to true in the about:...
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How to make windows transparent by default
NOTE: For those who interested on getting transparent window, you might want to install Compiz Settings and its plugins:
sudo apt install compizconfig-settings-manager compiz-plugins
Press Alt + F2, ...
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Workarounds for mouse pointer visibility in screen sharing sessions?
I have found this workaround, based on an answer to a SE question and first suggested by a user on a Microsoft discussion forum. It works for me in linux mint 19.3 MATE, Ubuntu 20.04, and 18.04.4 (...
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Overlay translucent image on desktop / above all windows
I was unable to find a stock solution so ended up modifying the pqiv program to achieve this.
I wrote an article explaining details.
The branch of pqiv is here. The command-line options for the ...
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How to make Dash-to-Panel in Ubuntu 18.04 transparent on maximized windows?
The steps you followed are related to the original Dock in Ubuntu 18.04, but you are clearly using Dash-to-Panel GNOME extension which can be made transparent easily using another GNOME extension ...
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Is it possible to set transparency per window in Ubuntu 20.04?
From the Command Line
Ubuntu 20.04 should ship with a command line tool called transset which provides some useful options for setting the transparency of a window.
In my opinion, the options that ...
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Not clickable transparent window on ubuntu desktop
Open a terminal.
Run xprop.
Click on the window. In your terminal, all information will appear.
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How do I disable Dock and Panel transparency?
To force Ubuntu Dock to assume a fixed opacity, open Terminal and run
gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock transparency-mode 'FIXED'
Also you can change max-alpha and min-alpha (0 ...
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How to make KDE Plasma taskbar panel transparent?
Edit: Please see whtyger's answer for changing panel transparency without the need to installing a new theme.
whtyger's answer provides the way to change panel transparency of your existing theme.
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How to make KDE Plasma taskbar panel transparent?
Note that the recent Plasma 5.22+ setting of adaptive and translucent panel doesn't provide full transparency, far from it.
But there is Panel Transparency Button, which provides exactly what is ...
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How to get Aero Glass effect (transparency in window decorations) in KDE Plasma 5?
I've found how to get the transparent titlebars in Plasma. This setting is stored in color scheme file. As Plasma overwrites default scheme file on each start, it isn't possible to alter Breeze color ...
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How do I make Panel always transparent like the Dock in GNOME 3?
You may use a GNOME shell extension called Dynamic Panel Transparency to achieve this.
Install the extension from the link above.
Reload the page. A settings icon should appear.
Click on the ...
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How To make LXTerminal of lubuntu 16.04 transparent?
After installing compton (see eli's answer)
Edit your ~/.config/compton.conf file to include the following line:
opacity-rule = ["90:class_g *= 'X-terminal-emulator'"]
This will make your terminal'...
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How To make LXTerminal of lubuntu 16.04 transparent?
First install "compton"
apt-get install compton
Then run the following command for testing:
compton --opacity-rule 45:'class_g *= "X-terminal-emulator"'
It's an opacity of 45%, change it to what ...
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How To make LXTerminal of lubuntu 16.04 transparent?
Open the LXTerminal and select Edit from the top menu and then Profile Preferences->Colors. From that screen you can change your terminal to transparent, partially transparent, the colors, etc.
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Change opacity of single window
I stumbled upon two possible solutions. In the Whisker menu, type "xfconf" and open the Settings editor, scroll down to "xfwm" on the left and then in the main table either
disable zoom_desktop – now ...
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How to make windows transparent by default
Does not work any more on Ubuntu 18.04 and later, because ccsm works only on Unity desktop environment, and latest versions switched to GNOME.
As this site says, you can enter this line on your ...
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How to change window opacity using mouse wheel or shortcut in Xfce 4.12?
Got solution from here.
First execute this to disable zoom: xfconf-query -c xfwm4 -p /general/zoom_desktop -T
Then adjust opacity using Alt+mouse wheel on window's titlebar.
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Full transparency on Ubuntu 19.04 dock
You need to also use transparency-mode with FIXED value:
gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock transparency-mode FIXED
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Is it possible to set transparency per window in Ubuntu 20.04?
There appears to be a non-standardized Extended Window Manager hint named _NET_WM_WINDOW_OPACITY which can be modified with the xprop tool.
xprop -f _NET_WM_WINDOW_OPACITY 32c -set ...
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How to set window transparency in Kubuntu?
In System Settings > Workspace Behavior > Desktop Effects, uncheck "Translucency".
In System Settings > Window Management > Window Behavior, click the "Window Actions" ...
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Ubuntu 19.04 + Gnome 3.32 = How to get dynamic transparency to dock and top bar back?
Edit 2019-05-17: as of Ubuntu 19.04, the Dynamic transparency feature of Dash To Dock does not seem to work. You can set a custum, fixed opacity only.
end edit
As the feature has been removed, you ...
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How to remove transparency when resizing a window [kubuntu 19.04]
I managed to find a solution with help from this reddit post, but the workaround for this bug didn't work out of the box and so I'll post an answer here too.
First of all, the effect is caused by the ...
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How can I get transparent window borders / titlebars in GNOME Shell?
I couldn't get the other methods to work in Ubuntu 19.04 so I resorted to editing the gtk.css file:
nano ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css
Here is the code I used:
/* add a 3-pixel border around windows */
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How to make the windows' title bars transparent in Ubuntu 18.04?
You can try these CSS rules, but don't expect it to work with all applications.
Open the file ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css (if the file doesn't exist, create it), and put write this CSS code inside it:
*...
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Workarounds for mouse pointer visibility in screen sharing sessions?
For the moment I have solved this by executing in a terminal
gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.mouse locate-pointer true
Since then, I can highlight the mouse pointer by pressing ...
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How to keep GNOME panel transparent even when app is maximized in Ubuntu 18.04?
I had the same issue with that extension. So, I went to the source of the problem.
The steps I took:
Open the terminal.
Navigate to ubuntu.css.
cd /usr/share/gnome-shell/theme
For security I ...
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Ubuntu 19.04 + Gnome 3.32 = How to get dynamic transparency to dock and top bar back?
Dock transparency
This helped me:
gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock transparency-mode 'FIXED'
This command will set transparency to 80% (change it as you need):
gsettings set ...
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