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# CSS Panels
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A Cinnamon extension for dynamic control of panels and popups transparency and blur effects, providing modern glass "morphism" aesthetics.
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A Cinnamon extension for dynamic control of panels and popups transparency and visual effects, providing modern glass "morphism" aesthetics.
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## Features
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- **Panel Transparency**: Adjust the opacity of the main panel (taskbar) and other panels with real-time preview (same panel style applied to all panels).
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- **Menu Transparency**: Control transparency of popup menus for a frosted glass effect.
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- **Blur Effects**: Customize blur radius, saturation, contrast, brightness, and more for visual effects.
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- **Visual Effects**: Customize saturation, contrast, brightness, and color tints for enhanced aesthetics.
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- **Border Radius**: Apply rounded corners to panels and menus with auto-detection from themes.
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- **Tint Overlay**: Add color tints to blur effects for personalized appearance.
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- **Use Styles for Notifications and OSD-s**: Optional propagation of popup panel settings to notification banner and OSD.
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- Access settings via **Cinnamon Settings** > **Extensions** > **CSS Panels**.
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- Use the system tray icon for accessing settings and presets.
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- Apply css blur templates for instant effects.
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- Apply CSS effect templates for instant visual enhancements.
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## Settings Overview
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- **Override Popup Color**: Enable separate custom color for popup menus.
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- **Choose Override Popup Color**: Select custom popups color when override is enabled.
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### Blur Effects
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### Visual Effects
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- **Blur Radius**: Intensity of blur (0-50px).
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- **Effect Intensity**: Visual enhancement strength (0-50px).
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- **Saturation Multiplier**: Color vibrancy (0.0-2.0).
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- **Contrast Multiplier**: Light/dark difference (0.0-2.0).
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- **Brightness Multiplier**: Overall lightness (0.0-2.0).
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- **Blur Opacity**: Transparency of blur layer (0.0-1.0).
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- **Blur Transition Duration**: Animation speed (0.0-2.0s).
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- **Effect Opacity**: Transparency of effect layer (0.0-1.0).
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- **Effect Transition Duration**: Animation speed (0.0-2.0s).
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- **Background Color/Tint**: Semi-transparent overlay color.
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- **Border Color**: Color of blur borders.
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- **Border Color**: Color of effect borders.
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- **Border Width**: Thickness of borders (0-5px).
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### Border Radius
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### Advanced Settings
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- **Blur Template**: Select preset templates (e.g., Frosted Glass, Wet Glass).
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- **Effect Template**: Select preset templates (e.g., Frosted Glass, Wet Glass).
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- **Apply Selected Template**: Reset settings to template values.
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- **Style Notifications**: Propagate popup panel visual appearance to notification banner.
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- **Style OSD-s**: Propagate popup panel visual appearance to OSD (Caps Lock, Num Lock, Brightness, Volume, ..).
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- OSD styling is made "in advance", so if you switch your "theme" and OSD's aren't styled properly, try to change CSS Panels border-radius setting.
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- If effects don't apply, check theme compatibility.
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- If Border Radius is not detected or valid, set it manually.
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- If Border Radius is not detected or valid, set it manually.
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- Enable debug logging and check `journalctl -f` for errors (or use LG).
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- Reset settings if issues persist.
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- Don't expect "miracles", it is only css with limited options
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## Credits
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- Based on BlurCinnamon@klangman.
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- Inspired by BlurCinnamon@klangman.
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- Icon downloaded from <a href="https://www.flaticon.com/free-icons/post-production" title="post-production icons">Post-production icons created by Smashicons - Flaticon</a>
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{
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"uuid": "[email protected]",
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"name": "CSS Panels",
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"description": "Dynamic control of panel and popups transparency and blur effects - based on BlurCinnamon@klangman",
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"description": "Dynamic control of panel and popups transparency and visual effects - inspired by BlurCinnamon@klangman",
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"version": "1.9.2",
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"author": "drdrummie",
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"cinnamon-version": ["6.0", "6.2", "6.4"],

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