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10.5.2 Translucent Menu Bar Issue?
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I originally used this tip to remove transparency from the menu bar:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071115135215262
I noticed when I used the checkbox in 10.5.2 to turn transparency off/on, it didn't work - it switched between white and grey.
I used this tip:
https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/4512847/
to properly remove the changes I made before 10.5.2, so now I can properly turn transparency off/on
I like the new grey menu bar better than the white from the previous hack.
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071115135215262
I noticed when I used the checkbox in 10.5.2 to turn transparency off/on, it didn't work - it switched between white and grey.
I used this tip:
https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/4512847/
to properly remove the changes I made before 10.5.2, so now I can properly turn transparency off/on
I like the new grey menu bar better than the white from the previous hack.
I had the translucent menu before the update but its gone now...Apple's messing around too much with these updates, if anything give us the option to tweak it on or off.
Then again, who gives a single **** about a translucent menu bar?
A few minutes ago I installed 10.5.2 and rebooted, then installed the graphics update and rebooted. Saw this thread and started checking.
My menu bar was NOT translucent and there was NO Translucent Menu Bar checkbox on the Desktop Screen Saver dialog.
I changed the desktop wallpaper from Apple images, Aqua Blue to Nature, Clown Fish - - and now the menu bar was translucent! Went back to Aqua Blue and the menu bar was translucent and now the Translucent Menu Bar checkbox was displayed.
It appears that after the desktop wallpaper has been changed once, then the menu bar translucency works properly.
YMMV
My menu bar was NOT translucent and there was NO Translucent Menu Bar checkbox on the Desktop Screen Saver dialog.
I changed the desktop wallpaper from Apple images, Aqua Blue to Nature, Clown Fish - - and now the menu bar was translucent! Went back to Aqua Blue and the menu bar was translucent and now the Translucent Menu Bar checkbox was displayed.
It appears that after the desktop wallpaper has been changed once, then the menu bar translucency works properly.
YMMV
I tried switching the background a couple times and it didn't seem to have any effect on my iBook (translucent before 10.5.2, no option) or my G4 Mac Mini (no transparency, before or after).
It's not a big deal to me, but I figured I'd at least document the issue. On my iBook, at least, it seems like the option to disable transparency should be available while it isn't. On machines that never supported transparency in the first place (my mac mini, the G4 PB mentioned earlier in this thread), 10.5.2 wasn't meant to give it to you.
It's not a big deal to me, but I figured I'd at least document the issue. On my iBook, at least, it seems like the option to disable transparency should be available while it isn't. On machines that never supported transparency in the first place (my mac mini, the G4 PB mentioned earlier in this thread), 10.5.2 wasn't meant to give it to you.
This is on a 12" PB, 1.5GHz. It says Core Image (Hardware Accelerated)? See pic.
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iBook G4, 1.33, no hacks, complete install of 5.2 and graphics update.
Tried changing the background. No change.
Been on the phone with apple for 2 hours and decided to research the issue online. Glad I'm not alone. I'll post once I have an update
iBook G4, 1.33, no hacks, complete install of 5.2 and graphics update.
Tried changing the background. No change.
Been on the phone with apple for 2 hours and decided to research the issue online. Glad I'm not alone. I'll post once I have an update
Wow. I stand corrected.
My list of compatible vid cards must be out dated or something. You SHOULD have the translucent Menu Bar then.
Solution coming? Maybe? One day?
After two hours on hold and talking to many different people ....This is now a "known issue" and has been forwarded onto the engineering department.
After two hours on hold and talking to many different people ....This is now a "known issue" and has been forwarded onto the engineering department.
Good to know that I'm not the only one having this problem. I suppose I should change my sig now...
Unfortunately the video card in the 12" PB DOESN'T support the type of calls the translucent menu bar makes to card. The reason it says core image hardware accelerated is because Apple cheated and recognized it as such even though that particular card (GeForce FX Go5200) doesn't quite make the cut.
It has something to do with the slight curve the menu bar has. If it was just translucent the card would show it as such (since the contextual menus are translucent). But since there is also a slight curve (done by shading) the card can't show that and thus gives just a solid menu bar.
What Apple should've done instead is to just make it translucent and forget about the special shading which most people don't notice on the translucent menu bar anyway.
My PB 12" has that video card and lacks the transparent menu. However System Profiler reports it does have hardware acceleration on Core Image. Any ideas?
This is on a 12" PB, 1.5GHz. It says Core Image (Hardware Accelerated)? See pic.
It has to say 'Supported' for Core Image, just as it does for Quartz Extreme.
The Nvidia GeForce 7300 GT in Mac Pros is similar so doesn't have the translucent option in Preferences either. 'Hardware accelerated' means it shows the translucent menu, but no 'Supported' means no option to turn it off and solidify it.
A friggin 8 Core Mac Pro supercomputer and it doesn't have the hardware to even make a simple menu bar solid unless you upgrade the graphics card? Gimme a break.
If a MP doesnt have the option then it sounds like an install issue. have you guys tried downloading the 10.5.2 combo update from Apple's Support downloads page and installing again?
wow this is seriously depressing.. after all that hype that its the mother of all OSX updates and "no known bugs" looks like a pretty funny bug right off the bat.
Apple, why not take some of your iphone r&d team and put them back working on your backbone? the mac os?
and yes same here, no translucent on/off checkbox, and im running a relatively new mac pro quad 2.66 mhz
Same problem here.
Running 12" iBook 1.33 GHz PowerPC G4 w/ 1.5GB of memory
I had a translucent menu bar before 10.5.2 and with the update I still have a translucent menu bar, but NO option to turn it off under System Pref->Desktop.
wow
Running 12" iBook 1.33 GHz PowerPC G4 w/ 1.5GB of memory
I had a translucent menu bar before 10.5.2 and with the update I still have a translucent menu bar, but NO option to turn it off under System Pref->Desktop.
wow