Taskbar loses its transparency

[vansh-j]

I just installed Zorin os and i am loving it!
I enabled the auto-hide feature of the taskbar. I found that the task bar is loosing its transparency quit often, for example while any app is in full screen, the taskbar looses its transparency and after restoring the window down and hovering over the taskbar it regain its transparency.
What should i do??
Thanx in advance!!!

[vansh-j]

its Zorin OS 15.3,
ryzen 5, 8GD DDR4 RAM, 128GB SSD + 1TB HDD

[zabadabadoo]

@vansh-j

its Zorin OS 15.3,

There are different flavours of Z15.3 e.g. Core, Lite, etc. Which do you have?
We particularly need to understand if you have Gnome or XFCE desktop as taskbar transparancy setting in these is different.

[zabadabadoo]

I have Z15.3 Core (i.e. Gnome) and use Gnome Tweaks for panel transparency which works fine, but I do not use autohide. See this reference:

How can I only make the taskbar black?

You can also use Dynamic Panel Transparency Extension: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1011/dynamic-panel-transparency/ I covered this in the unofficial manual - don’t ask me what page!

I thought that would also work for Z16 Core Beta.

[Aravisian]

@337harvey

@Aravisian, if you wouldn't mind, may you assist in how to make the Taskbar transparent. I searched for it, but i believe it was not a thread title (in a video card troubleshooting if i remember correctly) and am unable to find it right now.

I do recall someone asking about it and my inability to help them. I have run into the same trouble as you: Searching the forum has yielded nothing and I cannot recall the thread title.

Zorin OS brings more to the table than base Gnome-Shell and Ubuntu do. The ZorinGroup seeks to make Gnome more usable and accessible to users migrating to a New Operating System and uses Gnome Extensions to bring that about.
It used to be that creating a modified .css in ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css or gnome-shell.css would allow changes to the Gnome-Shell. But testing it on Zorin OS 16, I could affect no changes.
I would need to load up an instance of Zorin 15 and see if anything happens.

[Aravisian]

@337harvey

In your Home Directory, navigate to ~/.config/gtk-3.0/ and right click open area; select New Document and name that new document gtk.css.
Open that document in a text editor and paste in the following:

Sadly, this method will not work. Gnome-shell will only address "gnome-shell.css."
And even as I am typing this, I am logged into Gnome testing various ideas.

[Aravisian]

@337harvey

Thank you for lending your expertise in theming...

I admit defeat. Nothing I do has any effect on the Zorin Gnome-Shell theme.
Other than modifying the Zorin Gnome-shell theme directly, of course.

That being said, the description in the OP sounds like a Settings issue, to me.

[Aravisian]

@tomscharbach

Do you happen to know what Gnome extensions are involved and which, if any, might affect transparency? I have scoured the settings in Zorin 16 Core Beta and can't find a setting that would enable dynamic transparency, if that is what we are dealing with ...

I believe that the extension is gnome-shell-extension-zorin-dash.

In Zorin 16, if you right click the panel and open "Taskbar Settings", you can find Opacity Settings.

[Aravisian]

@tomscharbach

I haven't used a Gnome-based distro

You might find this hard to believe... But I avoid Gnome like it is plague.
Because it is.
XFCE does not have an extension or app for Panel - but the settings do cover Intelligent Hide and Opacity.

[Storm]

I love plague...