[xubuntu-users] Panel being difficult SOLVED

[MR ZenWiz]

On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 10:56 AM, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
:
>
> Apparently this is a side effect of the theme.  I set my theme to
> Clearlooks as I thought that was what I had been using, but apparently
> I needed to use Bluebird with the icons set to elementary Xfce dark or
> darker.
>
> The only remaining trivial oddity here is that the network
> notification icon shows nice and white on my work desktop but gray on
> my home desktop.
>
And lo and behold, now it is brightly lit.  Maybe has something to do
with whether it is active?