Thanks. That mostly worked. I noticed that when I depressed the button the semi-transparent background returned while the button was pressed, so I added the following to the code snippet:

                image
                {
                        function                = BOX
                        recolorable             = TRUE
                        state                   = ACTIVE
                        file                    = "panel-button-hover.png"
                        border                  = { 1, 1, 0, 0 }
                        stretch                 = TRUE
                }

just below the existing image block and that got rid of all semi-transparency. It is now fully transparent.

Thanks.

Sure...

All of this as a very long way around an issue that should be easier to solve...

                image
                {
                        function                = BOX
                        recolorable             = TRUE
                        state                   = ACTIVE
                        file                    = "panel-button-hover.png"
                        border                  = { 1, 1, 0, 0 }
                        stretch                 = TRUE
                }

just below the existing image block and that got rid of all semi-transparency. It is now fully transparent.

Thanks.

angstrom put up an alternative method to get a transparent background...

I used it and it works great...

http://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?pid=22652#p22652

	
bg[NORMAL]	= shade (0.7, @bg_color_dark)
bg[ACTIVE]	= shade (0.5, @bg_color_dark)
bg[PRELIGHT]	= shade (0.35, @bg_color_dark)
bg[SELECTED]	= shade (0.5, @bg_color_dark)

This makes a significant change in the hover colour - mostly invisible but still a trace left (notice the "bg[PRELIGHT]" statement!). I think I need to play around with these values a little to see what I can get.

Don't you just love it when all that hard work pays off? Was this statement in the gtk-2.0/gtkrc file? I'm using the greybird theme and I can't find that statement/section.

All right, I am looking at greybird now and it is a little more complex...  Give me a bit of time and I may be able to figure it out..

Also, the creators of greybird at shimmer are very helpful, they are on the forums here, on irc and at their site...

Don't you just love it when all that hard work pays off? Was this statement in the gtk-2.0/gtkrc file? I'm using the greybird theme and I can't find that statement/section.

And yes it was in the .themes/SlicknesS/gtk-2.0/gtkrc file but as I said the panel has a separate file in this theme

And it was worth the hard work!

Thanks

Don't you just love it when all that hard work pays off? Was this statement in the gtk-2.0/gtkrc file? I'm using the greybird theme and I can't find that statement/section.

The actual statement that made the difference in the SlicknesS theme I use is in a panel.rc file that is called from the SlicknesS gtkrc file

In yours, it will most likely be under

style "button"

bg[PRELIGHT] = /path/filename

or

style "button"

bg[PRELIGHT] = #color 

I am only speculating...

I will install greybird and have a look..

style "button"

bg[PRELIGHT]    = "cce2ff"

Now that I traced the where... in the theme I use it was this...

Prelight = file "/button/button-prelight.png"

I simply commented that line out and it was fixed...

That is what I had been asking for all along, was the where...  and a process of elimination
finally got me to it...

Too much focus on panel and not the button area...

I have searched everywhere I can for settings on this but have yet to find anything.

For whatever reason, the panel is stripping the transparency layer for the icons when it loads them..

I was noticing strange shadows of some of the icons in the panel, so I opened up one of the images within gimp and stripped the transparency layer... and sure enough, it is the exact image that the panel is using ...

This only happens on the xfce4-panel... I use these same icons anywhere else and the transparency is fine...

Also of note,  I added the Applications Menu to my panel and used one of my icons... It does work correctly..

So whatever the box is that is drawn around Launchers when hovered over is what is stripping the transparency out

Vastone wrote:

Are you 4.6 or 4.8?

4.8.1

I am running

xfce4-panel 4.8.5 on (Xfce 4.8.0)

Vastone wrote:

Are you 4.6 or 4.8?

4.8.1

This is definitely a strange one...

I see that there is an update in debian-unstable right now for xfce4-indicator-plugin, so if that is the issue, it may be resolved soon