Created attachment 3935 screenshot of notification area alignment I am trying to use a pixmap as the background for the xfce4-panel. It seems the system notification area or tray doesn't line up with the rest of the panel. I made a pixmap with a single red pixel at the top and a single blue pixel at the top of a 1x28px PNG image. Here is the screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/BvhTx.png (attached). As you can see, the items in the notification area have an extra red stripe, suggesting that the pixmap is being applied to the items in the tray on top of, and a few pixels below, the actual panel. I want to make the panel have a single-pixel border at the top an bottom. I'm guessing that the only way to do this would be to somehow force the tray items to have a different background image that is actually transparent. I don't know whether this is actually possible, because I think those items might be part of the same gtk class. Even using a gradient without the border looks bad because the top 3 or so pixels have to be the exact same color. --- A note about the version: I am using the latest version of Xfce from Debian stable. I know there are newer releases. When I get a chance, I'll try installing the latest development version of Xfce in a VM. Nevertheless, I kind of doubt this issue has been noticed, so it probably has not been fixed.
It has been noted and the 4.8 panel has a background image settings in the properties dialog, which should work fine. Please reopen if this is not the case.