Menu Bar transparent instead of gray

When booting up in iOS X (Mavericks) the Menu Bar sometimes will be transparent (instead of gray) with black type. When I reboot it appears with its normal gray background. Has anyone else experienced this, and how can I prevent the Menu Bar from being transparent instead of its normal gray background?

In System Preferences > Desktop & Screen Saver > Desktop, you will find a button selection at the bottom that says Translucent menu bar. Deselect it, and opacity will immediately return to the menu bar.

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After updating my MacBook Pro to the latest, I was able to see and use the new menu bar transparency setting. Unfortunately, I cannot see the option on my quad core Mac Pro. Could it be due to the fact that I run multiple monitors? I am quite surprised that the option doesn't even appear in the System Preferences.
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!

10.5.2 Menu Bar Transparent - CRASH

I installed 10.5.2 via Software Update. When I got into the Desktop & Screen Saver Preference Panel and click on the checkbox to turn off menu bar transparency, the Preferences application immediately crashes and I get that window asking if I want to send an error report to Apple. This happens every time, even if I restart. Obviously a bug, but my hope is that someone can post a workaround because I would love to turn off transparency without having to install a third party hack to do it. I'm using a brand new computer, only about two weeks old, and I haven't installed any weird third party applications or hacks or anything like that.

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.
And now I have a solid menu bar back again! Much better.
-Jeff

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.

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;
     cursor: pointer;
     background-color: #fff;
     padding: 0.5em 0.75em;
     color: #333;
     text-decoration: none;
Vhange the value to transparent.
Also the last line int the CSS should be removed as in
filter: "alpha(opacity=60)";
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Spry menu bar transparency in Internet Explorer 8

Hello all, I've searched for this one but can't seem to find a solution that works. I'm using DW CS5 and I've included a spry menu bar and transparency on the site works great everywhere else except for the menu bar. I tried to use the hack to change the background to "transparent" but that did not work. Also, the site works fine in other browsers such as Firefox and Chrome but the spry menu bar is the only this that sticks out like a sore thumb in IE8. Please any help is appreciated and I thank you in advance.

This is where the browser is told to supply a white background
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When I go to firefox start page, why does it not show https- in the menu bar? Instead it shows http without https

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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:
-Dynamically render transparency and reflections in a magnifying Dock
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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.

"Faces" grayed out in Aperture 3 menu bar and it is not under "Library"

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Check in Preferences>General>Enable Faces that the checkbox is ticked. Otherwise Faces detection is off on the options are greyed out.
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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.
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2) menu bar
3) contextual menu
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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.
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Changing Translucent Menu Bar Checkmark?

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tell application "System Preferences" to activate
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delay 0.5
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Why is my Menu Bar partially transparent? I can see my desktop instead of some of the icons like Print or Download.

The Menu Bar at top of the screen does not look right after the
Help entry. File thru Help is fine and have a white background.
After that I can see my screen background with icons for Print,
Downloads, and others superimposed. Some of the icons can
hardly be seen as they blend right in with my Wallpaper.
Furthermore the line above the Menu Bar has it's own problems:
It has the Firefox logo followed by some writing that go for
for about 6 inches followed by stuff from my wallpaper.
In other words, starting from the top of the screen I have
two short lines of stuff with a white background followed by
a see through view of stuff from my screen wallpaper.
Starting with the Navigation Toolbar everything is fine.
I don't have this problem with IE8. Can anyone shed some
light on this problem.
Thanks,
JWare

I don't want to change all my computer's visuals just because firefox has a bug in it! The Menu bar is rendered faintly and this is a bad idea. At least give me the choice . . . see image below. I have vista running ffox 4 and none of the fancy settings can fix this. Also I want transparency on! Most programs work properly. They don't force me to adhere to some idiot programers whims, likes or dislikes.
Of course ranting this way will get me nowhere . . . such is life.

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
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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.
I can't even use Firefox like this. Any ideas how to fix this?
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.
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