Comments on: Fixing OS X Leopard menu bar transparency

By: L. Robin Nilsson

L. Robin Nilsson — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:51:51 +0000

I wish I had that checkbox, because I really would like the bar to be translucent. But apparently they must have judged the G5 not to be fast enough to handle such things as transparancy, as the bar is as gray as ever, and no setting to be found. And I can’t really say I disagree with them. I am having enough prestanda problems as it is. But yeah, transparancy would be nice.

By: Ian

Ian — Mon, 19 May 2008 13:34:05 +0000

Hi, don’t know if anyone here has realised but there is an option in the System Preferences > Desktop that says “Translucent Menu Bar”. You can switch it on and off quite easily, at least on my MBP there is. Maybe it is an update, hope this helps.

By: Peter Krantz

Peter Krantz — Wed, 14 May 2008 07:09:46 +0000

@Anonymous Coward: Well, if you look at the date of this post you will find that there wasn’t a checkbox in System preferences for that.

By: Anonymous Coward

Anonymous Coward — Wed, 14 May 2008 04:14:36 +0000

System preferences pane -> Desktop -> Bottom checkbox “Translucent Menu bar” — problem solved.

Idiots.

By: SR

SR — Sat, 10 May 2008 01:20:48 +0000

Oh, sorry for the previous comment. I just realised that you (and everyone else) is talking about the transparent menu *bar*, not the (semi-)transparent menus.

Why is no one talking about the latter? Is there a simple way of turning them off that I haven’t been able to discover?

By: SR

SR — Sat, 10 May 2008 01:15:43 +0000

This works only when you have your desktop visible underneath the menu… more often it is an actual application (sometimes even the same application). The transparency doesn’t annoy me at all when the default desktop image is in the background; it’s most annoying when there is actual text behind the menus

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By: Pakk99

Pakk99 — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:24:42 +0000

Whatever. I was a transparency-hater too, until I used it for a few days. And now, I can’t stand the look of Tiger’s horrifically intrusive, glaring menu bar. Switch off transparency if you must, but, personally, I’m sick of hearing from the whiner’s. Would you also prefer that Apple return to 8-bit icons? Get over it.

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By: 6apxat

6apxat — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:22:31 +0000

there is an option in system prefs that turns transparency on/off )