I have the same problem when using the "Adwaita-X-dark" theme. When using the "Bluebird" themes that ships with my Ubuntu 14.04, the indicator plugin's background is dark blue (as it should be). When using Adwaita, it is light grey as opposed to the rest of the panel which is nearly black.
To me it looks like a definition in the theme is missing, too. I solved it in my case by adding the following lines at the end of ~/.themes/Adwaita-X-dark/gtk-3.0/gtk.css .xfce4-panel { background-color: #222222; font: normal; } .xfce4-panel .button { color: #ffffff; } (I took them from the Bluebird theme and changed the RGB color values to match the Adwait-X-dark colors.) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1325675 Title: Indicator Plugin Area Refuses to Match Xfce Themes To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xfce4-indicator-plugin/+bug/1325675/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs