Wingpanel transparency stopped working

my wingpanel (top bar) in pantheon de lost it’s dynamic transparency.

i edited my ip out of my screenshot (conky) lol but you get the idea. none of my wallpapers use dynamic transparency anymore. i tried dconf editor and editing the gtk.css for my gtk theme i am using which is Dracula. i tried other gtk themes and nothing works. in dconf editor it says transparency is enabled.

nothing i have done has helped, maybe you guys have some ideas. maybe pantheon de just needs an update to get ride of this bug, if it’s a bug, IDK?

i can live with this problem and will continue to use pantheon de as i love it but i wish it still functioned correctly.

i fixed it in dconf editor i turned it instead of false or true but to default and it’s fixed.

UPDATE THIS IS NOT DYNAMIC TRANSPARENCY NOR DOES IT DO IT WITH ANY OTHER WALLPAPER THIS IS NOT THE SOLUTION

not the solution i found out… it is see through but not it is not DYNAMIC transparency on this wallpaper nor any other wallpapers. also it resets to being just black every time i load my system. i have to manually go into dconf editor and set this to default again but that doesn’t really fix the problem because it’s still not DYNAMIC transparency… i thought i had the solution but it turns out i didn’t

if this is a bug can i report it anywhere>? or is it a buh, i assume it is… but idk?

The right side of the picture shows the information of what program?

INDICATORS (on wingpanel) AS FOLLOWS: snooze night light, sound, internet, battery, notifications, and power settings

conky is below that

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i installed wingpanel-standalone from the AUR to replace the default wingpanel in arch but no luck :frowning: still not showing DYNAMIC transparency for the wingpanel IDK what is going on TBH

Which compositor are you running your transparency on? Or do you always use fake-transparency?

i am using wingpanel-standalone currently the, default is wingpanel i believe. they both are not working well… as far as dynamic transparency goes. where you can see it transitioning in shade depending on the wallpaper sort of i guess best way of explaining it… the top bar.

Your answer seems irrelevant to my question.

Try installing picom and start it with
picom -b on session start… it might solve the issue.

Otherwise check ArchWiki for compositors. Or Pantheon compositor.

:v:

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thank you ivanhoe!
[fj@whitewolf ~]$ inxi -Gxx | grep compositor
compositor: gala driver: X: loaded: amdgpu unloaded: modesetting,vesa
[fj@whitewolf ~]$

when i try to run picom -b i get:
[fj@whitewolf ~]$ picom -b
[ 05/20/2023 10:10:09.762 session_init FATAL ERROR ] Another composite manager is already running
[fj@whitewolf ~]$

PS: sorry your right my response made no sense. i was confused about what you where asking but now i get it. sort of lol kinda of…

gala is what i got for the compositor in the arch wiki pantheon section

Can you upload the configs?

this is not my conky configuration, i take no credit (i ripped it from this site/forum somewhere in the conky thread)… the indicators i am unable to locate where the configurations are? if you know where they are located and could point me to them then i would be more than happy to share them with you. i did not see them in /home/fj/.config folder though unfortunately…

Summary
##Feel free to edit and make your own. 

conky.config = { 

	background = true,
	use_xft = true,
	font = 'monospace:size=8',
	xftalpha = 0.8,
	update_interval = 0.5,
	total_run_times = 0,
	own_window = true,
	own_window_transparent = true,
	own_window_type = 'normal',
	own_window_class = 'conky',
	own_window_argb_visual = true,
--	own_window_colour = '#263041',
--  own_window_argb_value = 120,
	own_window_hints = 'undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager',
	double_buffer = true,
	draw_shades = false,
	draw_outline = false,
	draw_borders = false,
	draw_graph_borders = true,
	stippled_borders = 1,
	border_width = 1,
	default_color = 'white',
	default_shade_color = 'gray',
	default_outline_color = 'black',
	alignment = 'top_right',
	gap_x = 15,
	gap_y = 180,

-- Misc Console #
   out_to_console = false,
   out_to_stderr = false,
   extra_newline = false,

   no_buffers = true,
   cpu_avg_samples = 2,
   net_avg_samples = 2,
   override_utf8_locale = true,
   use_spacer = 'right',
   maximum_width = 700,
   minimum_height = 800,
   uppercase = true,

};

conky.text = [[
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${alignr}${offset -6}system ──
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]];
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i added this to my gtk.css (Dracula theme) per someones suggestion on another site but it didn’t work:

/*********************

  • wingpanel support *
    ********************/
    .panel {
    background-color: transparent;
    transition: all 100ms ease-in-out;
    }
    .panel.maximized {
    background-color: #000;
    }
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Thank you

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i tried to create a new user all together with my endeavour os accounts. it did not help. when i loaded the new account the bug was still there. wingpanel had no transparency. i have no idea what to do… i created a issue on github for wingpanel as well. so far no one has responded to me on there… i swear this is driving me nuts. i wish my gui just looked right. i wish i knew what to do.