{"id":10007,"date":"2020-04-26T16:29:05","date_gmt":"2020-04-26T16:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=10007"},"modified":"2025-06-16T07:23:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T07:23:48","slug":"dynamic-transparency-ubuntu-20-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2020\/04\/dynamic-transparency-ubuntu-20-04\/","title":{"rendered":"Enable Top Panel Dynamic Transparency in Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Miss Ubuntu 18.04 style dynamic top panel transparency? Here’s how to enable this feature in Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04 and 25.04 with default GNOME desktop.<\/b><\/p>\n

The top panel transparency feature was removed since Gnome 3.32. If you like, it easy to get back in all current GNOME editions (up to v48 so far) by installing an extension.<\/p>\n

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For GNOME 43 and earlier<\/h3>\n

For Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 20.04, and other Linux with GNOME older than v43, there’s a “Dynamic Panel Transparency” extension can do the job to fade your top panel to nothingness when there are no maximized windows present.<\/p>\n

1.<\/b> Open Firefox or Chrome browser and go to https:\/\/extensions.gnome.org<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Click the link text “click here to install browser extension” and follow the pop-ups to install the browser extension:<\/p>\n

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2.<\/b> Then open terminal via Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> and run command:<\/p>\n

sudo apt install chrome-gnome-shell<\/pre>\n
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3.<\/b> Go to dynamic-panel-transparency\/<\/a> page, and use the ON\/OFF switch to install the extension.<\/p>\n
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Finally, launch “Extensions<\/b>” utility, turn on ‘Dynamic Panel Transparency’ extension and configure it with following options:<\/p>\n