Hey guys, Today we’re going to get rid of gnome-panel and replace it with something much better looking…
Tint2 is a a fully customizable taskbar that can add some more eyecandy to your linux desktop. It features custom color and transparency on fonts, icons, borders and background. It also has a clock you can setup.
To get it, download it from this link. Save it to your desktop and open up a terminal. Type in the following commands to extract and install tint2 (your folders may be different if you downloaded a different version)
cd Desktop/ tar -xvf tint2-0.7-beta1.tar.gz cd tint2-0.7-beta1.tar.gz/ cd src/ make sudo make install
After the install, I tried to run it in my terminal and got this error…
tint2: error while loading shared libraries: libImlib2.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
This can be fixed by installing the libimlib2 library. You can look for it in synaptic or type
sudo apt-get install libimlib2
Now you need to play with the config file to get your desired look. The default config file should be under /etc/xdg/tint2/tint2rc. I was going for a transparent style with each open task as a floating element. Here is my tint2rc with a screenshot under it (tint2 is the bottom panel).
#--------------------------------------------- # TINT CONFIG FILE #--------------------------------------------- #--------------------------------------------- # PANEL #--------------------------------------------- panel_mode = multi_monitor panel_monitor = 1 panel_position = bottom center panel_size = 900 28 panel_margin = 15 0 panel_padding = 9 3 font_shadow = 0 #--------------------------------------------- # PANEL BACKGROUND AND BORDER #--------------------------------------------- panel_rounded = 7 panel_border_width = 1 panel_background_color = #000000 60 panel_border_color = #ffffff 18 #--------------------------------------------- # TASKS #--------------------------------------------- task_text_centered = 1 task_width = 120 task_margin = 2 task_padding = 6 task_icon_size = 13 task_font = sans 7 task_font_color = #ffffff 70 task_active_font_color = #ffffff 85 #--------------------------------------------- # TASK BACKGROUND AND BORDER #--------------------------------------------- task_rounded = 5 task_background_color = #ffffff 30 task_active_background_color = #ffffff 50 task_border_width = 0 task_border_color = #ffffff 18 task_active_border_color = #ffffff 70 #--------------------------------------------- # CLOCK #--------------------------------------------- time1_format = %H:%M time1_font = sans 8 time2_format = %A %d %B time2_font = sans 6 clock_font_color = #ffffff 76 #--------------------------------------------- # MOUSE ACTION ON TASK #--------------------------------------------- mouse_middle = none mouse_right = close mouse_scroll_up = toggle mouse_scroll_down = iconify
Hope this helps make your desktop look even more incredible 
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