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Authored by: harmless on Thu, Oct 25 2007 at 12:34AM PDT

so far, the best I've been able to do is to make the top 22 (I think that's the number) pixels of your desktop images solid white.

My copy of Leopard hasn't arrived yet, but this should work anyway:

http://www.harmless.de/download/OpaqueMenuBar.zip

It's a small app I whipped up, that places a borderless white window directly below the menu bar. No UI whatsoever. To get rid of it you will have to kill it using Activity Monitor or the command line.

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Authored by: robg on Thu, Oct 25 2007 at 4:38AM PDT

No, it won't work (and I just tested it to be sure). This is what Peter Maurer's Non-Transparent Menu Bar did, too, but it too no longer works in the final version.

-rob.

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Authored by: harmless on Thu, Oct 25 2007 at 8:13AM PDT

Too bad. I really hope, someone will find a working hack. (And maybe we should file a bug since the menu bar is supposed to be translucent, but apparently isn't ...)