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Eliminate Menu Bar Transparency

Numberzz

By Numberzz

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I was so eager to see how Leopard preformed on my aging PowerBook. It installed, and the computer restarted. I went through the normal setup, and everything seemed nice and polished. So when I got to the Desktop, I wanted to see for myself how the non-transparent Dock looked like at the bottom of the screen. I went into Terminal and entered the following code:

defaults write com.apple.Dock no-glass -boolean YES
killall Dock

Then after the Dock restarted, and the new Dock was flat and dark, but I realized that something else was different. My eyes floated to the top of the screen to see a non-transparent Menu Bar. Yes! Disabling the 3D Dock made the Menu Bar "normal."

 

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Guest h2a

Guest h2a

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yea, that trick doesn't do anything to my menubar on the macbook core duo. its still transparent and then i have a 2D dock.

tayklor

tayklor 0

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My iBook G4 has no transparent menu bar with a fresh install.

???

scj312

scj312 21

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How do we know that you didn't just put a block of white on the top of your wallpaper?

Numberzz

Numberzz 0

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Because I didn't. Look at those images. The Apple's are different. That computer is using a legit backround. The one that Apple provided.

Sabr

Sabr 8

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How do we know that you didn't just put a block of white on the top of your wallpaper?

 

I highly doubt Numberzz would go through all this trouble of writing a news story, etc, without some truth behind what's going on with his transparency issues. Besides - what would be the point of doing so?

 

:)

fryke

fryke 0

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truth yes, but it seems to be restricted to _his_ computer! it simply isn't a tip for general use. OBVIOUSLY it doesn't work for other people. it's nothing against numberzz as a person or computer user or dev or hacker or whatever, it simply doesn't help other people out there to solve the problem of the translucent menubar.

Numberzz

Numberzz 0

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See! Problem Solved.

Skitals

Skitals 0

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Okay, I just tried this out. Dock is now 2D, but my menu bar is still transparent ?? Do I need to reboot?

scj312

scj312 21

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For people who feel queasy in Terminal:

Dockscrew

Sabr

Sabr 8

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truth yes, but it seems to be restricted to _his_ computer! it simply isn't a tip for general use. OBVIOUSLY it doesn't work for other people. it's nothing against numberzz as a person or computer user or dev or hacker or whatever, it simply doesn't help other people out there to solve the problem of the translucent menubar.

 

Oh, yes, we all know that anyway. My post was talking about Numberzz's transparency issue alone, as no one else can seem to replicate it. :(

 

However, I think it'd be good to understand what's going on with Numberzz's PowerBook. Obviously when he set his Dock to 2D, it changed a setting or something. We just need to figure out what it was... =/

Numberzz

Numberzz 0

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It's not the graphics card...I think. All builds, 466 to 559, that I have used on it, have had a see-through menu bar. Do you think Apple changed the System Reqs?

diamondsw

diamondsw 1

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When I first rebooted after installing Leopard on my Mac Mini, it was opaque. Next reboot it was transparent, and it's stayed that way since. I'm guessing a bug, but the fact that there is some sort of programming path that gives an opaque menu bar opens up all kinds of possibilities. :D

 

If only I could get my hierarchical menus back on Dock items. I hadn't even noticed they were gone in the seeds... Makes the dock kind of useless to me.

~T.E.K.B.O.I.~

~T.E.K.B.O.I.~ 0

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Is there a way to set the level of transparency on the taskbar?

Paranoid Marvin

Paranoid Marvin 1

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Sorry to burst your bubble here Numberzz

 

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As you can see from the screenshot, 1.5ghz Powerbook with the retail build of Leopard

luke255

luke255 0

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Is there a way to set the level of transparency on the taskbar?

 

Taskbar? This isn't windows and there are no tasks in that bar lol. However to answer your question, if you had read the posts:

 

Theres a new little application for do that

 

OpaqueMenuBar

 

This is not confirmed as far as I can see but I would presume it works on most Macs.

scj312

scj312 21

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the installer one isnt transparent on my imac, will update once installed

 

Update: interesting!

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Numberzz

Numberzz 0

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As you can see from the screenshot, 1.5ghz Powerbook with the retail build of Leopard

What the hell? I have the exact same PowerBook as you. Hmm...

Colonel Ingus

Colonel Ingus 0

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Theres a new little application for do that

I'm sure Apple will be coming out with something like this very soon. Personally I don't mind the way the dock looks, but a way to adjust it should have been provided.

scj312

scj312 21

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Apparently if you don't have hardware accelerated Core Image you dont get blur or a transparent menu bar.

CLiDE FTW!!1

CLiDE FTW!!1 0

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Apparently if you don't have hardware accelerated Core Image you dont get blur or a transparent menu bar.

So Apple is punishing us because we're able to run CI? :(

scj312

scj312 21

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So Apple is punishing us because we're able to run CI? :(

At least your dock is usable :D

pcampisi14

pcampisi14 0

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my dock is now 2d. but my menu bar is still the leopard standard.

inimicus

inimicus 0

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Now what about rounded menu bar top corners?

cagljevic

cagljevic 0

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Interestingly enough, I first entered that command into my terminal to disable the new dock for just the 2d dock and it worked, only leaving me with the transparent menu bar. I saw Numberzz's post this morning before leaving for work and typed the command in again and believe it or not, my menu bar is no longer transparent. Not sure if entering the command twice has any effect but my menu bar is definetly a solid white color. I will post an image of it when I get home.


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