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Posted: **2024-10-22 20:56**

I have book worm here which I have built my own little bootable Live ISO flash drive.
I have the desktop theme basically looking like I want it, except for the panel and menu color. Screenshots of the theme suggest it should be black, but I am seeing a a dark gray which looks like the default Debian theme color for Cinnamon. There is also a "dark" version of the theme which I can see changes in the app window colors change, but the menu and panel remain the same color.

Looking in the cinnamon.css for the current used theme I saw:

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#panel {
  background-color: rgba(238, 238, 238, 0.85);
  box-shadow: 0px 0px 0px 0px rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);
  outline: 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95);
  color: #000000;
  font-size: 9pt;
  height: 40px;
  width: 50px;
  padding: 0px;
}

and

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.menu,
.popup-menu {
  color: #000000;
  font-size: 9.5pt;
  padding-right: 0px;
  padding-top: 0px;
  padding-bottom: 0px;
  min-width: 200px;
  min-height: 80px;
  border: 1px solid #919191;
  border-radius: 0;
  background-color: rgba(238, 238, 238, 1);
  border-top: 1px;
  border-left: 1px;
  border-right: 1px;
  border-bottom: 1px;
  box-shadow: none;
  margin-bottom: 1px;
}

From following the guide I found, "How to change the colors of a Cinnamon Theme..." I went to those sections and changed the

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background-color: rgba(238, 238, 238, 0.85)

to

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background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)

I rebuild the ISO, boot it, and no change.

I managed to find another custom distro based on Ubuntu which is basically using the same theme I am using (they changed the name of it), and I ran diff on both of the cinnamon.css files, and they are identical, but yet that distro has their menu and panel both black.

With that, I tried some searches on that distro with grep for strings like "rgba(0, 0, 0" and "#000000" hoping to find some sort of override file which was forcing the colors to change. I could not find anything.

I also tried

gsettings list-recursively | grep panel

which resulted in nothing there.

Using various "dconf" commands did not reveal anything either.

Also looked in /usr/share/cinnamon/applets/ and none of the .json files seem to have anything to do with setting the color of the panel or menu also.

At this point, I have no idea what they did to change the menu and panel, and why mine keeps failing.

Anyone got some ideas on this?

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Cinnamon: Unable to change panel & menu background color

Cinnamon: Unable to change panel & menu background color