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Silly EndeavorOS changed my greeter wallpaper with an update. I had a custom image that matched my desktop wallpaper... now I'm going to have to figure out what file I edited again and where I stored my image (it's been a while since I did that). I don't even remember what greeter it is lol

I really hate these distros. Last time they broke my XFCE, my panel was all fucked up, icons were missing. They yanked the icon set I was using right out from under foot and some of them were manually chosen (by browsing for appropriate icons).

It's probably Arch doing these things and they are just following them, though. This is why I don't eat distro dogfood, but on that device I really have no choice. I can't compile everything, and older versions of it, at that.

P.S. No, it's not Arch responsible for the greeter, it's Endeavour's LightDM customizations. They've moved the background image setting from lightdm.conf to slick-greeter.conf and replaced it with endeavouros-wallpaper.png. Overwriting config files is not OK. I'm going to set those files +i in case they try that again.

So I found a nice theme for that XFCE dogfood (I don't like the latest version as much as my beloved 4.18), much nicer than that Adwaita Dark.

Actually a Gnome theme, but those are GTK themes that work with XFCE too. It's called "Space" but the variant I chose was "Space-transparent". It's got panel transparency. Only the top one though, it seems. That's right out of the box, I haven't touched any files to change colour codes or anything. I might make the text FFFFFF. I don't screw around much on that thing, typing on a shitty keyboard and operating a mouse in a bad position is laborious. (I lost the receiver for the cordless keyboard and mouse combo I was using so I've just got crap hooked up for now lol)

The wallpaper behind that shit is just my blue gas giant screenshot from Starfield.

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Looks good!

Actually that theme is nicer than I thought it would be. I have some actual application window transparency. Not all windows, for example not firefox or vlc player (good thing, that wouldn't be appropriate), other applications on top of those show them underneath.


Actually this doesn't show up as much on my PC screen where I use low brightness/high contrast and a bit of a blue bias. This is more prominent on the TV, I can actually read text behind it.

I can make out a little of what's behind it, Gimp, and looks like your wallpaper is a game screenshot