[SOLVED] How can I make Gnome Panel fully transparent?

[CaptainSarcastic]

I've tinkered with it some, and searched the forums, but haven't yet been able to accomplish it.  I have the panel set to be transparent, so it shows the desktop wallpaper through it and is transparent in that sense, but I am trying to make it transparent so that if I drag a window down the screen I can see it through the panel like in KDE or Vista.

I'm reasonably sure I am missing something, and would appreciate help.

Thanks in advance!

[CaptainSarcastic]

Nevermind about this question - I figured it out.

[Duvid]

Can you kindly share this info please. It would be useful for me as well. Thanks

[CaptainSarcastic]

Sure.

The first thing I did was to make the panel transparent to the background, just right-clicking on the panel and setting the background color to white and fully transparent.  That showed the wallpaper through the panel, but not active windows that went behind it.

To get the panel fully transparent I activated the Opacity, Brightness and Saturation plugin in the CompizConfig settings and added a new entry in Window Specific Settings for "dock" and set the opacity at 80.  Now I can see windows that go past the panel through it.

I run a single Gnome panel at the bottom of the screen, so being able to see through it comes up a fair amount.  I'm attaching a screenshot of the result to this message as a JPG.