# Change Panel's Color to be different of the Top application bar

**URL:** https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/change-panels-color-to-be-different-of-the-top-application-bar/172
**Category:** Themes
**Created:** [March 31, 2018, 1:37pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/change-panels-color-to-be-different-of-the-top-application-bar/172 "2018-03-31T13:37:40Z")
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### Author: ![jfbourdeau](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/jfbourdeau/32/13_2.png) [@jfbourdeau](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/jfbourdeau)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2018, 1:37pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/change-panels-color-to-be-different-of-the-top-application-bar/172/1 "2018-03-31T13:37:40Z")

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If I want to keep the actual theme but just change the color of “Panels” to not have the same color of Applications’s Top bar, what is the easy way ?

JF

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### Author: ![fossfreedom](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/fossfreedom/32/1405_2.png) [@fossfreedom](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/fossfreedom)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2018, 8:40pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/change-panels-color-to-be-different-of-the-top-application-bar/172/2 "2018-03-31T20:40:28Z")

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The only way is to use a bit of GTK css trickery.

You can define a local css entry to colour the panel I.e. override any theme.

For example this bit of css changes the transparency … you could adapt this for the panel colour.

[https://plus.google.com/+UdaraMadubhashana/posts/YVedqtWbcXx](https://plus.google.com/+UdaraMadubhashana/posts/YVedqtWbcXx)

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### Author: ![jfbourdeau](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/jfbourdeau/32/13_2.png) [@jfbourdeau](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/jfbourdeau)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2018, 8:29pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/change-panels-color-to-be-different-of-the-top-application-bar/172/3 "2018-04-01T20:29:23Z")

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Setting up the panel to TRANSPARENCY " ALWAYS " did the job for me

JF

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### Author: ![fossfreedom](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/fossfreedom/32/1405_2.png) [@fossfreedom](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/fossfreedom)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2018, 8:46pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/change-panels-color-to-be-different-of-the-top-application-bar/172/4 "2018-04-01T20:46:17Z")

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ah - so you were referring to “transparency” - lol. Your question was about panel colours!

Anyway - yes - you are quite correct - setting transparency to always forces the panel to have a permanent transparency effect.

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### Author: ![jfbourdeau](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/jfbourdeau/32/13_2.png) [@jfbourdeau](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/jfbourdeau)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2018, 8:49pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/change-panels-color-to-be-different-of-the-top-application-bar/172/5 "2018-04-01T20:49:41Z")

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> [@fossfreedom](#):
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> Anyway - yes - you are quite correct - setting transparency to always forces the panel to have a permanent transparency effect.

I was just looking for a way for to make the " top of applications windows" not to be the same colors as Panels colo.

Changing Panels colors could be one way, but the simplest way, that I forgot, was to use the transparency feature.

JF  
Tks !!