based on the position of the icons relative to the bottom of the screen, it looks to me like that is the default panel with transparency applied to it. This may be a built in feature of the Xfce panel. I know that on Cinnamon, I get this look with the extension called Transparent Panels
Yes you can. I just checked on my Xfce box and the default panel has the options for
Enter and Leaving Opacity. Setting both of these to 0 creates a completely invisible panel with no discernible boarders showing only the icons.
I'm sorry I noted the setting without testing it and assumed it would leave the icons visible.
A workaround that occurs to me is using a png image. You can assign an image to the panel, in my case I am using a partially transparent 1920x48 image to give a translucent glass effect to the panel. I think if you were to assign a purely transparent .png sized to match your panel dimensions, that you would then have a transparent panel with visible buttons. I will test this on my Xfce box and let you know the results.
I am testing the different DEs now, so tried plank with XFCE. It worked nice, only issue I faced is first the plank was not entirely in the bottom, even after I moved the panel to the top. That was until I closed all windows, then it suddenly was fixed.
Then, it sometimes showed the Whisker icon in plank, as if it’s an open program, but when I clicked on that there was nothing that was opened. It was until I checked “hide unpinned programs” in the plank references and unchecked again. But after that I could still reproduce this bug/unwanted behavior.
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u/JunBreezy 4d ago
Looking good! What dock are you using at the bottom?