tint2 Transparency

Problem: The taskbar, at the top for me, was only transparent on the right side (clockside) and the middle and left portions of the taskbar were not the same opacity. I wanted to make the entire taskbar uniform in transparency.

Solution: Main Menu > Settings > tint2 > Edit config file.
Under "# Taskbar", the line "taskbar_active_background_id = 6" to 1, and success!

(see this post and the wiki for why)... the tl;dr is that the first 8 things in the tint2 config file are little "profiles" which get referenced by the different parts later. So further down in the code, my "taskbar_active_background_id" was asking for profile 6, which had high opacity, instead of profile 1.

Date & Time in tint2

Problem: I wanted the date in the upper righthand corner, dang it. And I had no idea what this tint2 thing was.
Solution: The clock can be changed in a lot of ways.
Main Menu > Settings > tint2 > edit config file
I currently have:

 # Clock  
 time1_format = %a %b %d @ %H:%M