Xfce panel bugs with opacity set to anything else than 0

[philco]

I was trying to reduce the panel opacity, but I found that the panel starts to duplicate the image of itself.
The panel with default style:

The panel with opacity 0:

If I close the panel settings window:

I tried to change the theme, but it didn’t work. So, I want help with this issue, I don’t this is a bug of the Xfce Panel itself, maybe it’s related to some system configuration.

P.S.: There is another issue with the panel, but it’s not related to opacity. When I open the panel settings window, it actives a highlight to the selected panel, but it remains even if I close the window:

So I have to open the panel settings again and close before it highlights the panel.

[yannssolo]

What works for me is i logout/login each time a made a change with panel opacity, otherwise i have weird behaviour like you.

Also, you can make some tests with an opaque background color to see what happens, yours seems to be transparent.

[philco]

I did logout and login and worked. Thank you! I think I had to try something like this before asking on the forum.

[archisman]

Even in case you find a solution yourself, please do post it in the forum so that others can know about it.

[philco]

Yes, there may be other people searching solutions for the same problem. Now I think this may be really a Xfce Panel bug.

[Gnisha]

I also have this occur when I change panel transparency settings, etc. It seems to me that XFCE 4.16 isn’t very polished and does have a lot of bugs to work out.

[yannssolo]

@Gnisha

does have a lot of bugs to work out

This not the place here nor the subject of this topic to count the number of XFCE issues or whatever DE, it’s pointless and a waste of time.
There are many DE available if you are not happy with one of them.

[r0xcl1n3]

Hi,

i had almost the same problem, with panel not changing to transparent. The transparrent / oppacity control did nothin. Got it to work by changing the panel position.

Login and logout did nothing for me either.

[yannssolo]

Please write your own topic, because your problem is different here. And give more details with screenshots.
Thanks

[banjo]

You have global menu (vala) installed, wich tends to be buggy. The solution is to sort this out first. There is no bug with opacity in xfce panel.

[Gnisha]

Never said I wasn’t happy with it, did I? Nope. Don’t think so.