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[SOLVED] White background to sound, user, clock on 'panel'

danielson

Thu May 23, 2013 10:36:38 pm

I've got AWN set to 'transparent' which is just lovely but the clock, system user, sound, wifi etc. have a white background that i can't seem to change. Autohide is good but i wish everything on the panel could be transparent.

Zorin 7 - pretty cool!

Wolfman

Fri May 24, 2013 6:12:28 am

Hi,

click on the panel with a right click > dock preferences > themes > select the theme you want > customise > use Gtk theme colours or you can muck around with the various setting in the customise window!!.

Awn Settings_004.jpg


Awn Settings_005.jpg


Regards Wolfman :D

danielson

Fri May 24, 2013 2:10:11 pm

Not sure i can find the option to change the time setting background... (see attachment).

BTW, i really like your quote! :)

Wolfman

Fri May 24, 2013 4:39:38 pm

Hi,

look at the pics above carefully, the one that says "Themes" has a "Customise" button at the bottom on the left, just click there and play around with it.

Regards Wolfman :D

danielson

Fri May 24, 2013 6:47:36 pm

Wolfman, you got me!

Got into Themes section and customized just about everything i could click on.
Hit GTK too, but nothings changing.

So, i guess that not only makes me a non-geek but a nerd too!

Wolfman

Fri May 24, 2013 6:58:20 pm

Hi,

did you install the graphic card drivers for your PC??.

System Settings > Hardware > Additional Drivers
(Nvidia and ATI only!!)

Then try again if you can!!.

What GTK theme are you using??.

Regards Wolfman :D

danielson

Fri May 24, 2013 7:27:37 pm

I have it set to GTK with Zorin default - autohide - no style.

"Additional drivers" option is not there.
Installed everything i could tick on during installation process.



BTW, trying to modify .grub file and it says i don't have permissions.
I'm the only user / administrator.

danielson

Fri May 24, 2013 8:06:51 pm

awn-applets-all isn't in the software packages, so i downloaded it from here:
http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/package/we ... pplets-all
and software manager opened up and said "dependency is not satisfiable.

Thanks for Grub tip, everything is running fine now.

danielson

Fri May 24, 2013 8:26:51 pm

Main server - check!

Good luck with installations!

Update: after double-checking to make sure i had 'main server' on,
did an update and i think AWN was updated in the process.
Reboot gave me a whole new one to discover.

Thanks a bunch friends! :)

Wolfman

Fri May 24, 2013 9:19:20 pm

Hi,

do you mean you are okay now??. Can we mark this as solved??.

Regards Wolfman :D

danielson

Fri May 24, 2013 10:09:06 pm

Well, kind of... actually, with the beautiful, shiny and new AWN, i don't know how to access the 'startup menu' items anymore.

You win some, you lose some!

Update: got it! it's called Cairo Main Menu.

Consider this thread officially closed. :)

Wolfman

Sat May 25, 2013 5:58:57 am

Glad to hear it, will mark as solved. :)

Regards Wolfman :)