How can I make the background of the whisker menu transparent?

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Is there any error message now after restarting whisker?

22

Yes,this
Gtk-Message: 16:33:39.633: Failed to load module "colorreload-gtk-module"

23

Beauty doesnā€™t have to be useful. :wink: :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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24

When playing around with the .css file I mostly got errors when there were any syntax errors.

Could you delete the .css file and create a new one, then paste the above content as is? You can use a file manager for that instead of nano.

25

ok will do it and update

26

:+1: I assume that you have both composite enabled and lowered opacity within whisker settingsā€¦

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After tinkering around doing what you said + removing some things unnecessary things I put off of the gtk-3.0 folder
I no longer get an error when restarting the panel,but still I get semi transparent menu

28

EDIT: What is the output of
nano ~/.config/xfce4/panel/whiskermenu-8.rc

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The file doesnā€™t exist so it says new file

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Thatā€™s strange, since you applied changes to the whisker menu settingsā€¦
Can you check with thunar? Maybe yours is called whiskermenu-20.rc or somethingā€¦

EDIT: If there is another whiskermenu rc file with a number higher than 8, your whisker menu may look funny now :innocent: If thatā€™s the case, then just delete the newly created file (needless to say to always make backups before deleting anything)

31

deleted all of the config files I saw with the term ā€œwhiskermenuā€ in them and restarted the panel,nothing changed as far as I can tell,
anyway thanks for the help

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32

Hope that thatā€™s still the case when you log out/in again.

Iā€™m out of ideas at the moment, but youā€™re welcome :slightly_smiling_face:

EDIT: One last idea is to replace

transparent

with rgb values, e.g.:

rgba(0,0,0,0.1)

and see, if anything changesā€¦ :thinking:

33

nothing changed as far as I can tell,
but never mind the issue donā€™t waste your time on it,
also thank you for the help,
have a nice day.

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34

Iā€™m having an issue where my menu got resized so I removed it from the panel and put it back but I canā€™t get the background of it transparent.

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All the settings are the same but the background stays black.

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Only the sides can get transparent using the whisker menu settings gui(as far as I know),
I wanted the inside(where the terminal and stuff are) to be transparent so I asked here,
I didnā€™t get something that worked for me ,try this maybe it will work for you

36

To the suggestion on such discussion, try to also add

#whiskermenu-window entry { 
 	background: transparent; 
}

To ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css

37

Sorry, but did you ever find a solution to this problem? As you may imagine I have the same problem, only half the whiskerā€™s menu is transparent.
Thanks and have a good day.

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I didnā€™t but people suggested solutions here so try them though I donā€™t know if they are safe

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Note:I do NOT guarantee that any software, themes or anything I mention here is safe to use in any way, nor do I guarantee that it wonā€™t harm your software(Operating Systemā€¦ etc) or hardware or somehow spy on you.
I discovered that the Blackbird and the Matcha theme with itā€™s variants allow you to fully or partially accomplish the goal, I say fully or partially because I havenā€™t done much testing.
just use the default transparency slider on the whisker menu(you should be using one of the themes I mentioned or a theme that accomplishes the goal)