PowerBook G4 12” Leopard Menu Bar Question

[AnonMac50]

Hi all, I just got a 2005 12” PowerBook G4 (last model). I partitioned the drive and installed Leopard on one partition, and since I was too lazy to set it up as new I used TDM to transfer the data from my 2005 iBook G4 (also running Leopard).

After boot up, however, I found out the menu bar is not translucent. The GPU is the Nvidia GeForce Fx Go5200. I know the Fx 5200 in my G5 doesn’t have a translucent menu bar so I was wondering if this was also the case here, or if it was because some weird thing happened during TDM (even though my iBook has a translucent menu bar).

I would like to ask if anyone else with a 12” G4 have a translucent menu bar or if this is just something I’m not going to have with my PowerBook. If other people have it I will try to reinstall and see what’s going on but I don’t want to waste extra time on this if there’s no point. I could not find any information about this GPU, only about the one in the G5 (which I already know about).

Thanks

 

[Dronecatcher]

It's normal - the 5200 doesn't have the ability to display that feature.

 

[Amethyst1]

... whereas the 2005 iBook's Radeon 9550 does support it thanks to being Core Image-capable.

 

[AnonMac50]

That’s what I thought. Thanks guys.
Annoying that the cheaper Mac has it but the higher-end one doesn’t.

 

[Hughmac]

There are ways of simulating a translucent menu bar, such as Transbar - https://macdownload.informer.com/transbar/

Cheers

Hugh

 

[swamprock]

There are ways of simulating a translucent menu bar, such as Transbar - https://macdownload.informer.com/transbar/

Cheers

Hugh

Likewise, Menushade for Tiger.