When I select the same background for system and a panel, the wallpaper of the panel is all compressed.
Posted by: pierrot | on January 5, 2015
When I select the same background for system and a panel, the wallpaper of the panel is all compressed. Is it possible to have it “normal” as if the system wallpaper is shining trough.
This is what I want to do : create a panel that seems not to be there, and hide some icons behind it. This results in the icons appearing in the middle of the screen when scrolling them from behind the panel
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Sounds like this would require a complex construct out of panels and scripts…
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Indeed, the background of the panel will be stretched to fill the panel area only. At the moment the app cannot crop the background for you. What you would need to do is to note the exact position and size of the panel, and manually crop your wallpaper so that the cropped fragment which would be set as panel’s background exactly matches the wallpaper behind. That’s a bit of work and will not work with scrolling wallpaper.
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What about a single panel with transparent panel? Let’s say it has a layout with 2 rows. Add a “do nothing” action shortcut in row 1, hide icon and label (so the panel keeps the correct home location). In rows 3 etc add the icons you want to hide. When scrolled up, the icons would as you want appear out of the blue.
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Assuming you have already sized your wallpaper to th size of your screen, crop a copy of the wallpaper image (possibly using a screen shot) to the ultimate size of your intended panel. Then it will require careful, exact placement of panel. Fiddly, but I think it’s possible.
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You are trying to hide the items under a panel.
What about place the items in the panel? This way they will be hidden when you scroll out of the panel’s view (maybe your setup don’t allow this)
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TrianguloY That’s what I meant.
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Thanks all for your advice. I already thought it would be difficult to do. The choice is programming or fiddling with photoshop. I think I’ll try the pragmatic approach of Lutz and TrianguloY…
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