The deskbar-applet gtk entry is already transparent for me. Unless you mean the drop down search results which is gnome bug 338776
** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #338776 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=338776 -- deskbar applet is not transparent https://launchpad.net/bugs/44918 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs