{"id":1242,"date":"2013-08-06T10:20:08","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T10:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=1242"},"modified":"2013-10-25T13:17:32","modified_gmt":"2013-10-25T13:17:32","slug":"transparent-panel-titlebar-ubuntu-unity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2013\/08\/transparent-panel-titlebar-ubuntu-unity\/","title":{"rendered":"Enable Transparent Panel, Titlebar in Ubuntu 13.04, 13.10 Unity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This tutorial shows you how to enable <b>transparent top panel and titlebar<\/b> in Unity Desktop, tested in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy, 13.04 Raring. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/transparent-panel-titlebar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/transparent-panel-titlebar.jpg\" alt=\"transparent panel and titlebar\" width=\"460\" height=\"170\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/transparent-panel-titlebar.jpg 460w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/transparent-panel-titlebar-300x110.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Transparent Panel in Unity:<\/h3>\n<p>The <i>CompizConfig Settings Manager<\/i> has the opition to set panel opacity. It&#8217;s a little different to Ubuntu 12.04 Precise. Now the option is under <b>Ubuntu Unity Plugin -> General<\/b> tab.<\/p>\n<p><b>To get totally transparent panel:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<ol>Set the value of <i>Panel Opacity<\/i> to <i>0<\/i><\/ol>\n<ol>Click to edit <i>Background Color<\/i>, change Opacity to <b>1<\/b><\/ol>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/unity-transparent-panel3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/unity-transparent-panel3.jpg\" alt=\"full transparent panel\" width=\"460\" height=\"207\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2008\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/unity-transparent-panel3.jpg 460w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/unity-transparent-panel3-300x135.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To install <i>CompizConfig Settings Manager<\/i>, click the link below to bring up Ubuntu Software Center and click install button.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"apt:compizconfig-settings-manager\" title=\"install CompizConfig Settings Manager\">click to install CCSM<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Compizconfig-settings-manager.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Compizconfig-settings-manager.jpg\" alt=\"compizconfig settings manager\" width=\"453\" height=\"223\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Compizconfig-settings-manager.jpg 453w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Compizconfig-settings-manager-300x147.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 453px) 100vw, 453px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Transparent titlebar in Unity:<\/h3>\n<p>Without installing special themes, you can directly adjust window titlebar transparency in Ubuntu Unity via <b>Dconf Editor<\/b> which is installed by default.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Dconf-editor-unity-dash.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Dconf-editor-unity-dash.png\" alt=\"dconf editor in unity dash\" width=\"403\" height=\"207\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Dconf-editor-unity-dash.png 403w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Dconf-editor-unity-dash-300x154.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Open dconf editor, then navigate to <b>org\/compiz\/gwd<\/b>. Change the value of &#8220;metacity-theme-active-opacity&#8221; and &#8220;metacity-theme-inactive-opacity&#8221; to set transparent titlebar for both focus &#038; un-focus windows.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/change-titlebar-transparency.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/change-titlebar-transparency.jpg\" alt=\"change titlebar transparency\" width=\"460\" height=\"173\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/change-titlebar-transparency.jpg 460w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/change-titlebar-transparency-300x112.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This tutorial shows you how to enable transparent top panel and titlebar in Unity Desktop, tested in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy, 13.04 Raring. Transparent Panel in Unity: The CompizConfig Settings Manager has the opition to set panel opacity. It&#8217;s a little different to Ubuntu 12.04 Precise. Now the option is under Ubuntu Unity Plugin -> General [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[400,399,15,37],"class_list":["post-1242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unity","tag-transparent-panel-in-ubuntu","tag-transparent-titlebar-in-ubuntu","tag-ubuntu-13-04","tag-ubuntu-13-10"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}