Menu bar transparency

hi,
i recently upgraded to 10.5.2 and im having no problems with it, but i have noticed that apple has tweaked the menu bar transparency...
is there any way of reverting it back to what it was? i think it looked a lot nicer...

Search these forums for translucent and review the hits. IIRC, no.

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Any insight is appreciated. Thanks.
Carl

Try downloading the 10.5.2 combo update (http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/macosx_updates/macosx1052comboupdate .html), and installing that.
Before and after installing, repair permissions (go to Disk Utility (/Applications/Utilities), click Macintosh HD, and click "Repair Disk Permissions".)
Good luck!

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After about a half dozen crashes in a row, this time it works. I wish I could post what fixed it, but I guess it doesn't matter as long as my Preferences app is no longer crashing.
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Spry Menu Bar transparency problem - one solution

Like many other people I have spent several frustrating days trying to solve the problem of Spry Menu Bar sub-menus appearing to be transparent (text, etc. underneath the sub-menus shows above/through the sub-menu items). This problem manifested itself in IE7, but not in Netscape, Safari or Firefox.
I thought it must be the dreaded IE z-index problem.
I have been through most other people's questions and replies on the Adobe forums, tried all kinds of z-index changes and various other mods to my own CSS and/or the Spry CSS's - all to no avail.
My situation:
I have a Spry Menu Bar above a clicktrail and a text block. Both the clicktrail and the text block showed through the sub-menu items, which drop-down over them.
All three items are located in relative-positioned divs, necessary because the whole page design is contained in a self-centralizing container div and absolute-positioned divs screw up the whole page layout when the screen size or browser window size changes.
(Sorry, I can't upload the files to a website at the moment.)
The solution that works for me in Dreamweaver CS4:
I selected the divs for the clicktrail and the text block, one at a time, and selected Modify > Arrange > Send to Back in Dreamweaver CS4.
I then selected these two items again and selected Modify > Arrange > Bring to Front.
Finally I selected the div containing the Spry Menu Bar and selected Modify > Arrange > Bring to Front. The thought behind this was that this would put the Spry Menu Bar on top of everything else - and it works!
This solution works in all four browsers, but don't ask me how! I can't see any change in any CSS, nor in my template code. All I can see is a strange, flashing vertical line (like an enormous cursor - about 10 cm [3"] high) in the middle of the template page only (and only in Dreamweaver) if I click on the page background. I can neither find an explanation for this nor anything in the coding which might cause it. By the way; the z-index for the menu div =2, the z-index for the clicktrail div is not defined and the z-index for the div for the text block is set to auto. I haven't tried other values and to be honest I'm not sure what they were set to before I applied the above 'solution'.
But hey - who the hell cares - my site works!
I hope this helps someone else out of an absolute hell-hole...if someone out there can explain where to find the code that had been changed or added by doing this I'd like to know. I don't like things I can't explain - even if they do work!

This is where the browser is told to supply a white background
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a
     display: block;
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     padding: 0.5em 0.75em;
     color: #333;
     text-decoration: none;
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Also the last line int the CSS should be removed as in
filter: "alpha(opacity=60)";
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Seriously Apple, why can't Leopard render a transparent menu bar on my Mac?

I have a 2-year-old PowerBook 12" 1.5 GHz running Leopard 10.5.2 freshly updated today. I thought for sure I'd get to see a translucent menu bar but, no, still opaque as ever with no option to change.
Apple, let me tell you some of the things this pretty capable computer can do:
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Please stop telling me my computer is not compatible enough to display a translucent menu bar. Displaying the transparency in the menu bar has got to be one of the least intensive operations Leopard will do. It is a static image (save for seldom changing menu items) that rarely needs to be re-rendered. Terminal windows, however, get resized, dragged around and display their transparency beautifully.
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Thanks for fixing the Stacks, at least.

Thanks for your input. While you may not mind a solid menu bar, I quite like it and would like to have one. My main gripe however, is the fact that this really just seems like some bug that Apple isn't willing to focus on, or admit to.
They say the graphics card can render "most effects" but not the menu bar. But, seriously, as I've mentioned before, why can it render transparent drop-down menus, transparent Terminal windows, transparent/reflective Dock, Dashboard ripple effect but not a simple, basic, transparent menu?
Once I get a decent answer to this, I'll be satisfied. Because right now, telling me my 64MB graphics card can't handle it seems like a load of bulls**t.

Custom tuning menu, menu bar, and contextual menu transparency levels?

I'm not talking about simply toggling menu bar transparency (which you can already do in 10.5.5 using System Preferences), but I'd like having the chance to tune transparency level for different objects.
Is there any way to tune:
1) menu
2) menu bar
3) contextual menu
transparency level?
(possibly individually for each of the three categories)
This would be cool.

You can't - all the template navigation menus are not made to be changed.
If you want anything different, then you need to open the Inspector and go to Page and then check the box where it says 'hide navigation menu' and then you can build your own text based menu by using text boxes or shapes etc. and then use hyperlink to link to your pages. In this way you have full control over colour and placement.
The template navigation menus were not made to be changed.

Changing Translucent Menu Bar Checkmark?

I'm relatively new to Applescript and Automator. I know enough Applescript to simplify some shell scripts I run occasionally, among other things. I know it's possible to change System Preference preferences, so how would I be able to toggle Menu Bar transparency via Applescript using the System Preferences checkbox in Desktop & Screensaver > Desktop ?
Any help is greatly appreciated!

You must use [GUI Scripting|http://www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/uiscripting/index.html], since the System Preferences do not have AppleScript support. The script below should toggle the menu bar transparency.
tell application "System Preferences" to activate
tell application "System Events"
tell process "System Preferences"
tell menu bar 1
tell menu bar item "View"
delay 0.5
tell menu 1
click menu item "Desktop & Screen Saver"
end tell
end tell
end tell
tell window "Desktop & Screen Saver"
tell tab group 1
tell group 1
click checkbox "Translucent Menu Bar"
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
delay 0.5
keystroke "w" using command down
end tell
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See also this [thread|http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2006348&tstart=456].

How to Disable Transparency in Menu Bar and Tabs

I have Firefox 35 installed on a Windows 8 pc. When Firefox last updated about a month ago, I think it went from about version 31 to the current 35. When this happened, all of my Inactive Tabs and the Menu Bar went completely transparent so I could not see what sites were in my Inactive Tabs and I could not even see the Min/Max/Close Window options at the top-right.
On the Windows 8 pc (my primary pc):
- I only had a couple Extensions installed: Colorzilla, LastPass, WOT
- I had only the Default Theme and 2 other Themes.
The Active Tab, Bookmarks Toolbar, & the URL still display fine with the default background color. I already tried using the Refresh Firefox tool. It removed my couple of Extensions & Themes, but the only other thing that changed is that now my Inactive Tabs are completely black instead of transparent so I still cannot see what sites they have open. The Menu Bar is still transparent.
I attached a screenshot. You can see the Black Inactive Tabs. I don't know if you can tell, but the Menu Bar is transparent.
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FYI, I also have Firefox on a Windows 7 pc and it had no Extensions and no Themes installed at all and the same thing happened with the recent update. I tried the Refresh Firefox on this one and got the same exact result so it does not appear to be a Windows 8 issue.

I have not customized anything. All my other browsers are fine, it is only Firefox that has this issue and it's on 2 different pc's.
I have tried using the default theme and even downloaded, enabled, & disabled 3-4 other themes and none of them effect the transparency or the blacked out tabs.

Translucent menu bar is static, or not truly transparent (not live)

You can make the menu bar translucent, under: System Preferences / Desktop and Screen Saver, using the check box at the bottom of the Desktop pane.
If you do that while you're using a checkered or patterned desktop background (or wallpaper) image then it's easy to see that the bar does indeed become somewhat transparent, or at the very least, it is no longer opaque (pure white).
However, if like me, you like to make things more interesting, like say, use a screensaver as a desktop background so that your desktop is no longer a static image, but rather, displays dynamic content (i.e., something with motion), you may have used a command like the following, (without the quotes,) using Applications / Utilities / Terminal:
"nice /System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Resources/ScreenSaverEngine.ap p/Contents/MacOS/ScreenSaverEngine -background &"
... which will launch your currently preferred screensaver as your desktop's dynamic wallpaper. (The "nice" prefix insures that this task will only take up precious CPU resources if it is not used by other programs, so that it doesn't end up slowing you down if you're really busy with something else.) Also, I find that it's easiest to choose a screensaver that draws contrasted lines, like Defocus for example, to make it easier to notice and differentiate the background from the menu bar itself.
Now, while you've got that screensaver as a background, you can toggle the translucence of the menu bar on and off and notice that it does indeed work, however, as the objects (or graphics) move around (or change) on your desktop, the menu bar stays the same; it doesn't update itself! Unlike a minimized quicktime movie (for example,) that keeps playing in the Dock even though it's so tiny, in this case, it's as though the menu bar took a snapshot of what should transpire behind (or through) it at the moment translucence was activated, and is never refreshed again. Meanwhile the transparency of other OS X controls work just fine, like the Dock and the Stacks.
Has anyone else encountered this problem, or does anyone have a solution?

lethal wrote:
The translucent display features are only available on intel-based Macs.
This is not true. It has to do with which computers support "core image", which has to do with your video card. I'm not sure of the specific ones that do or do not, but for instance, my Powerbook which has a Radeon 9000 in it does not support core image but my PowerMac which as a Radeon X800XT does support core image and does have the option for the transparent menu. The powerbook doesnt even have the option for the transparent menu bar.

Need transparent background color in Spry Menu Bar

Tried every possible combination.
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Can not make a transparent (no color) background within Spry Menu Bar: MenuBar1??
Also, my first nav is 'Welcome' that <li></li> is about 6-8 px higher then the rest of the nav bar??
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Have you tried changing the value of the Background colour in your CSS:
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a
    cursor: pointer;
    text-align: center;
    padding-top: 2px;
    padding-bottom: 2px;
    text-decoration: none;
    color: #FFF;
    padding-right: 2px;
    padding-left: 2px;
    display: block;
    background-color: #223F9A;

Firefox 4 Menu Bar - When I hover over or select a menu bar item, the menu bar sub-menu becomes transparent and unreadable. Is this a known issue that can be corrected with an update or is it functionality that is not designed to work with this version?

Firefox 4 Menu Bar - When I hover over or select a menu bar item, the menu bar sub-menu becomes transparent and unreadable. Is this a known issue that can be corrected with an update or is it functionality that is not designed to work with this version?

If this happens on monitor 2 of 2, this problem has been solved here:
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/794823#answer-157988
Go to "Firefox"--> "Options" --> "Advanced"
Then un-check "Use hardware acceleration when available"
While not verified, I believe this problem is due to an SLI configuration where the focus is on monitor 1. (I.e acceleration is available, but only on monitor 1.)

My menu bar is NOT transparent!?

So, what's the deal here. My menu bar is NOT transparent. The only thing I can think may be causing this is that I have a second monitor running on an ATI card through the PCI slot. Seems weird to me that the menu bar would go solid because of the presence of a second monitor but that's really the only thing that comes to mind. Anyone else seeing this? I know that a lot of you would like to dump the transparent menu bar so maybe I shouldn't complain. That said, I'd really like to know what's going on here.

I definitely don't hate it. I actually don't mind it at all. Don't love it... don't hate it... it is what it is I guess <g>. I never gave it much consideration until I saw all the hate threads
The background I was using before taking the screenshot was black at the top anyway, so maybe that made a difference in my not really paying it much mind.

Mac OS X 10.5.5 Still no transparent Menu-bar

This was one of those thing where what you know doesn't hurt you.
Well I know about the menu bar, It's not the hardware, so it's Apple's
fault and I just want a simple fix
And why didn't they fix it back in 10.5.1
Yet it's not fixed
All effects work: Dashboard ripple, Terminal Transparency, Pull down menu Transparency.
I hope it will be fixed
if anyone know 3rd party software that can do this, please tell
If anyone need screenshots or specs i can post them

tried that after every update
I'm going to post my specs here so everyone knows:
Hardware Overview:
Model Name: PowerBook G4 12"
Model Identifier: PowerBook6,8
Processor Name: PowerPC G4 (1.2)
Processor Speed: 1.5 GHz
Number Of CPUs: 1
L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB
Memory: 768 MB
Bus Speed: 167 MHz
Boot ROM Version: 4.9.0f0
Serial Number: 4H51776JRJ6
Sudden Motion Sensor:
State: Enabled
Version: 1.0
Chipset Model: GeForce FX Go5200
Type: Display
Bus: AGP
VRAM (Total): 64 MB
Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID: 0x0329
Revision ID: 0x00b1
ROM Revision: 2122
Displays:
Color LCD:
Display Type: LCD
Resolution: 1024 x 768
Depth: 32-bit Color
Built-In: Yes
Core Image: Hardware Accelerated
Main Display: Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Quartz Extreme: Supported
Display Connector:
Status: No display connected

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