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10.5: Show user pictures with transparency
Authored by: aclark1978 on Sat, Oct 10 2009 at 3:00PM PDT

Just wanted to add that this still works in 10.6 and add a bid of information.

• You don't have to use a TIFF file (under at least 10.6), I used a PNG with transparency information and it shows correctly in both the login screen and the fast user switching menu.
• You can reset the FUS menu by telling the SystemUIServer process to quit. It will automatically restart and all of the icons on the right-hand side of the menubar will refresh themselves.