# Menu transparency

**URL:** <https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/menu-transparency/7650>\
**Category:** Budgie Desktop\
**Created:** [February 11, 2025, 2:03pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/menu-transparency/7650 "2025-02-11T14:03:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![jlb](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/jlb/32/4919_2.png) [@jlb](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/jlb)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2025, 4:37am UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/menu-transparency/7650/2 "2025-02-12T04:37:58Z")

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Apart from Fantasma, [already mentioned here](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/adding-transparent-effect-on-all-windows-forms-like-garuda-linux/5733/3) in an answer to a question similar to yours, @Neelix, I only know of Materia Transparent that can really give you satisfaction — but both of them are rather dated.

> **[GitHub - ckissane/materia-theme-transparent: A Material Design theme for GNOME/GTK based...](https://github.com/ckissane/materia-theme-transparent)**
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> A Material Design theme for GNOME/GTK based desktop environments

There’s nothing to stop you trying it out, but you’ll find, as I did, that the [developer’s warning](https://github.com/ckissane/materia-theme-transparent?tab=readme-ov-file#unsupported-apps-and-desktops) is honest: some applications, and not the least important ones, don’t integrate at all, especially Nemo.

Unless you give up on Budgie and switch to GNOME on connection, but I haven’t tried it: while the whole thing is aesthetically pleasing, my eyesight doesn’t quite fit.

I’ve heard that transparent themes like these are better suited to KDE.

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