I know there are a million posts on this but not a single one has helped me solve this…
I'm trying to change the color of the top menubar/status bar of the system. I've managed to set the transparacy of it using some fancy commands in the terminal but trying to change the actual color is a nightmare. It just stays black! I'm trying to set it to white.
I've tried modifying the unity.css file of the theme I'm using by setting the @dark-bg-color and @dark-fg-color values but all that seem to do is change the menu colors of the windows that open up for each program, not the actual status bar of the system.
Best Answer
The menubar color and the color for some other things can derive from your desktop wallpaper. Unity color is chameleonic. So you don't need to explicitly change the color of the menubar.
First open CompizConfig Settings Manager, go to Ubuntu Unity Plugin, enable it and set Panel Opacity to 0 as in the following image:
Now, when you will change your wallpaper, the menu bar will take the color of the wallpaper. Some examples:
If you want it to be almost white (well, completely white can not get because otherwise would not distinguish the text and the icons from the menu):