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James White
Asked: 2010-10-26 00:28:20 +0800 CST

How do I add shadow to my Gnome Menu Bar?

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I reinstalled Ubuntu 10.10 with Compiz and have suddenly lost the gradient shadow on my gnome menu bar (Top), I was wondering how can I get it back?

I already have the value of "any" set in Window decorations and the shadow is applied to windows, but just not the gnome bar.

I'm running the theme Ambiance with the faneza icon set

gnome compiz

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I found out that shadow isn't applied on my gnome top bar because I had disabled desktop icons, no idea why that would be, but instead of disabling desktop icons completly I decided to just disable generated icons for my mounted volumes.

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  2. Reload the panel with $ killall gnome-panel. When it reloads it will be picked up by Compiz and given a shadow.

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