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10.5: [shaded background] Get rid of the translucent menu bar
Authored by: ddash on Thu, Nov 15 2007 at 4:53PM PST
I tried this one and as rob mentions, if in order to get back the original translucent menubar, you have to delete the entry from the plist file manually. By replacing the 1 in the hint by 0, something interesting happens on my system. i.e.
sudo defaults write /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.WindowServer 'EnvironmentVariables' -dict 'CI_NO_BACKGROUND_IMAGE' 0

produces a tiger like menubar without transparency which is not just white (but grey) and has a shaded texture.

Dash



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10.5: [shaded background] Get rid of the translucent menu bar
Authored by: wjv on Thu, Nov 15 2007 at 5:10PM PST
I too get the gradient if it's set to "0", but... there's an unsightly one pixel wide black line directly below my menu bar.

I'm off to experiment with different values...

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10.5: [shaded background] Get rid of the translucent menu bar
Authored by: cbriere on Thu, Nov 15 2007 at 5:28PM PST
That's great ! This looks exactly like how an older Mac displays Leopard's menu bar ! AWESOME ! tks

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