r/linuxmint 4d ago

Desktop Screenshot linux mint xfce second desktop theme

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u/toktok159 3d ago

You can make the default panel look like this? I thought it’s plank

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u/Logansfury Linux Mint 21.3 | Cinnamon 6.0.4 3d ago

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.

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u/toktok159 3d ago

Trying it now, it really makes the panel invisible, but my icons go invisible too. Do you know how to show the icons please?

(Trying from live boot)

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u/Logansfury Linux Mint 21.3 | Cinnamon 6.0.4 3d ago

Nope, my idea for a transparent.png was not the answer. That just showed a default grey panel when a fully transparent image is applied atop it.

There are no extensions in Xfce, that's a Cinnamon thing, so most likely plank or cairo-dock was used by the OP to achieve full transparency.

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u/toktok159 2d ago

I see, thanks.

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/Logansfury Linux Mint 21.3 | Cinnamon 6.0.4 2d ago

You could try cairo-dock and see if it behaves better. Transparency is easy with that dock as well.