! Please note that this is a snapshot of our old Bugzilla server, which is read only since May 29, 2020. Please go to gitlab.xfce.org for our new server !
Transparency partially working when using autohide and composite
Status:
RESOLVED: WORKSFORME
Product:
Xfce4-panel

Comments

Description rbanfield 2011-06-22 00:14:25 CEST
Even when autohide is enabled, a small sliver of pixels from the bottom panel appears at the bottom of the screen where the bottom panel is.  I've read that by enabling compositing and setting alpha=0, the panel can be completely hidden. 

Unfortunately, it does not always stay hidden.  Here's a way I've been able to reliably reproduce the problem on my machine from a new installation/update of Fedora 15 and Xfce as of June 21, 2011:

1. Select auto-hide for the bottom panel and enable compositing
2. Select bottom panel preferences, and chose an alpha value of 0, rendering the panel transparent.  WORKS: panel is transparent, and completely hidden when not hovered over
3. Delete a couple launchers and the separators, log out, then log back in
4. The bottom panel now shows the small sliver of background color and is not transparent any more.  In order to fix this, compositing can be turned off, then turned back on again.
Comment 1 Nick Schermer editbugs 2011-06-22 08:18:30 CEST
I think this issues was fixed in the last release (fix was in 4.8.4, last release is 4.8.5).
Comment 2 Nick Schermer editbugs 2011-09-10 10:55:09 CEST
Fix was in 41e5482515c400ddbad866f49f8154bc77991c75.

Bug #7756

Reported by:
rbanfield
Reported on: 2011-06-22
Last modified on: 2011-09-10

People

Assignee:
Nick Schermer
CC List:
0 users

Version

Attachments

Additional information