There may be a minor readability issue in Epiphany. To fix it: (1) Select "Use custom stylesheet" in "Preferences > Font & Style"; and (2) Create '~/.config/epiphany/user-stylesheet.css' as: select { border-radius: 0 !important; border-color: transparent !important; } input { color: #000 !important; } There is a posibillity for changing the background color of the panel for dark ambiance, useful for a transparency panel with a dark DE background, Edit the gtkrc file in the gtk-2.0 folder. change those lines style "misc-panel" { engine "murrine" { rgba = FALSE roundness=3 } bg[NORMAL] = "#C2D0BD" # for the (light) Ambiance background # bg[NORMAL] = "#5A6C5F" # for the (dark) Ambiance background bg[PRELIGHT] = "#AEC6A6" #for the (light) Ambiance background # bg[PRELIGHT] = "#C7E3BE" #for the (dark) Ambiance background bg[SELECTED] = shade (0.6, @bg_color) # to be compatible with menus # bg[SELECTED] = shade (1.08, @bg_color) # to be compatible with menus (dark) Ambiance background fg[NORMAL] = "#000000" # for light panel # fg[NORMAL] = "#FFFFFF" # for dark panel # fg[PRELIGHT] = "#000000" # for dark panel # fg[SELECTED] = "#000000" # for dark panel to this ones style "misc-panel" { engine "murrine" { rgba = FALSE roundness=3 } # bg[NORMAL] = "#C2D0BD" # for the (light) Ambiance background bg[NORMAL] = "#5A6C5F" # for the (dark) Ambiance background # bg[PRELIGHT] = "#AEC6A6" #for the (light) Ambiance background bg[PRELIGHT] = "#C7E3BE" #for the (dark) Ambiance background # bg[SELECTED] = shade (0.6, @bg_color) # to be compatible with menus (light) Ambiance background bg[SELECTED] = shade (1.08, @bg_color) # to be compatible with menus (dark) Ambiance background # fg[NORMAL] = "#000000" # for light panel fg[NORMAL] = "#FFFFFF" # for dark panel fg[PRELIGHT] = "#000000" # for dark panel fg[SELECTED] = "#000000" # for dark panel Have fun.