How do I make the panel transparent like this:
Either find a Plasma Style that is transparent, or (better imo) try out the Plasma Panel Colorizer widget. This has presets, including a transparent one.
A new Plasma style will very likely also change the background for your menu, system tray popups as well, which may not be what you want. The Panel Colorizer will not.
I’m using the Panel Colorizer with the pre-installed theme 34. Transparent, but I’m getting this error – see screenshot:
The widgets on the control bar are displaying incorrectly. Can this problem be fixed?
If you only want to change the level of panel transparency, and keep everything else intact, a simple manual tweak might suffice to have panels like this:
- Create a directory with a name like “
~/.local/share/plasma/desktoptheme/BreezeMod” and a text file there with the name “metadata.json”, which should contain something like this:
{
"KPackageStructure": "Plasma/Theme",
"KPlugin": {
"Category": "Plasma Theme",
"ServiceTypes": [
"Plasma/Theme"
],
"EnabledByDefault": true,
"Name": "BreezeMod",
"Description": "BreezeMod",
"Id": "BreezeMod"
},
"X-Plasma-API": "6.0"
} - Save the attached SVG file (below) as “
~/.local/share/plasma/desktoptheme/BreezeMod/widgets/panel-background.svg” the contents of which can be further customized (e.g. transparency/opacity levels), if desired. - Change Plasma Style to “BreezeMod” in System Settings.
I use it under Plasma 6 (which has metadata.json in place of metadata.desktop) and also add a colors file copied from ~/.local/share/color-schemes/BreezeMod.colors, while simply managing the blur effect globally via System Settings > … > Desktop Effects > Blur
you can actully use panel colorizer theme orbit its not perfectly transparent but it adds blur it looks better then just transparent no headaches if problem presists remove all widgets and try again i hope it will work and you will have beautiful panel other way is go to plasma styles download the theme glassy it will add blur to your taskbar and main kde apps and looks beautiful otherwise kvantum themes whitesur is is your best case
Yes, I’m aware of the setting. That’s why I added the screenshots with blur enabled on other stuff than the panel. From what I can tell from the original post, he wants a completely transparent panel. But if he should enable blur in the settings ( for other stuff), that would affect the panel as well. Maybe you could ignore blur on the panel through other settings, dunno. But adding those few lines to the metadata does the job.
Same plasma style, with and without those lines in the metadata. Again, maybe there’s another way these days, dunno.
