Is there a way to remove the existence of the opaque menubar completely? I just want the icons, not the actual white/whatever color menubar on the top.
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How Can I Make the Menubar Transparent?
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To make it transparent (or as Apple calls it, translucent), go to:
> System Preferences > Desktop & Screen Saver > check the "Translucent menu bar" box at the very bottom.
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I dont even have that option in system preferences. Is there a terminal command that I can use to make the menu bar translucent because I think the opaque menu bar is really ugly.
What OS version do you have?
Translucent menubar first appeared on 10.5 Leopard. It won't be there before.
Yes, unless you ran Leopard on a Power PC Mac like mine, it remained opaque. My parents' 2006 or 2007 Intel iMac had a translucent menu bar in Leopard, Intel chip is the key.